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For the Kids: With Respect to the Elders

18 Wednesday Mar 2020

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America, children, culture, generations, Okay Boomer, society

HOAX, noun: Something done for deception or mockery.

I keep hearing and reading the laments of the Boomers, the other Boomers, some more Boomers, and a few Silents (though not so many GIs) that so many of them stupid young people just ain’t taking the Corona Hoax seriously. Yeah, about that…

I’m a member of Generation X. Some of us have tried to help, others have become entangled in the problem. For the most part, we’re overlooked by those older and younger. But, we did have a chance to experience both worlds: we saw the old America, even as it decayed; and, we were the first guinea pigs in the great experiment that made society what it is today. We can (or should) feel for the young even as we remember what the elder generations did. I’m calling on those of us born between 1965 and 1980 to finally stand up and do something.

This post is written in defense of the Millennials and the Zoomers and any post-Zoomers, the ones trying to eat out, go to the beach, and live life as normally as possible in the toilet paper-free, mask-wearing, fiat-spending, news-addicted, schoolbus nutrition-delivering, hand sanitized, post-American zombie wasteland. For the Boomers and older generations reading this: if you are personally offended, then you are part of the damned problem (consider this a mirror).

They keep wailing and moaning that the kids don’t care: via their careless, hoax-averse living, they’re allegedly endangering and dishonoring their parents and the older folks. The kids are told they must honor and respect their elders, who, by and large, resemble a bunch of bloated, tottering, braindead fools. Some of these fools have foolishly invoked the Biblical admonition to honor the mother and father. They now appeal to “old-fashioned” values about youth and seniority. Two divorced and absent parents do not a generation make, and the same Bible openly condemns entire generations for their collective wickedness. So, I ask, what older generations?

The older generations that killed off the Bible and the old-fashioned ways?

The older generations that, just a week or so back, were making fun of the kids for being a bunch of slackers who can’t pay back the student loans the elders said they had to take out?

The older generations that divorced in mass and left the kids to flail, cry, and be tormented over the destruction of their homes?

The older generations that stole the last bits and pieces of the money, leaving nothing but debt and debris in their wake?

The older generations that suppressed wages while inflating consumer prices to the moon?

The older generations that opened the floodgates and welcomed 100 million incompatible non-Westerners?

The older generations that did nothing while the sorcerors, the wizards, the freaks, the corporations, the government, the NGOs, the televisions, and the dope dealers laid waste to the culture?

The older generations that lived for the moment, ignored their children and grandchildren and then demanded that the young pay for their retirements, their medical treatments, and the continuation of their lifestyles, all the while demanding they be respected for their self-righteous hedonism?

The older generations that ran the Churches into the ground while running the Flock out the door?

The older generations that enjoyed the last vestiges of semi-decent education, only to abandon their children to the Ivied Tower of Babel?

The older generations that ushered in a world destined to genetically alter the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of those who came after them?

The older generations that killed any link to the civil liberties once ascribed to the dead constitution?

The older generations that turned America into a police state?

The older generations that demanded the young go forth to fight Satanic foreign wars for the profits of the banks and corporations of the police state?

The older generations that sheepishly jumped at every hoax and lie ginned up by the politicians and the media, expecting everyone else to jump as well?

The older generations that, with moderate prompting and assistance, completely and utterly destroyed the coherent nation of America?

The older generations that aborted half of the younger generations in cold, selfish blood?

Perhaps the best way to honor and respect those people would be to get them in the ground and then forget they ever existed. And no, we do not have to live with and suffer from their legacy of evil failure. We can move on and erase it, starting right now.

Party on, kids. Gen X has your backs.

#BoomerDoomer

17 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Coronavirus, generations

Those darn kids are at it again, refusing to stop living when faced with a hoax. Won’t they think of the precious Baby Boomers?!

Scientists and government officials fighting the coronavirus epidemic say they have a problem: Carefree youths.

As authorities moved to restrict social gatherings last week, bars and restaurants from New York to Berlin filled up with revelers, illegal “lockdown parties” popped up in France and Belgium, and campuses in the U.S. lit up for end-of-the-world dorm parties.

So far, most young Covid-19 patients have experienced mild or no symptoms from the virus, while more severe cases are concentrated among those aged 50 and over. Data released last week by the National Health Institute in Italy, currently the world’s worst-hit country, shows mortality rates starting at 0% for patients aged 0 to 29 and edging up to peak at 19% for those over 90.

Only Boomers could be surprised by this. Why should the younger generations give a damn about the people who destroyed Western societies, stole all the money, and tried to abort away the younger generations? Party on, kids.

Dotard Elders and Cloddish Youth

05 Thursday Mar 2020

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age, America, climate change, generations, politics

Derek Thompson, a millennial, takes aim at the trio of elderly gents in the presidential pony show contest. Trump, Biden, and Sanders are old, that’s certain. However, the ending of his article doesn’t help the cause of sprightly discontent:

Finally, the most important challenge before the U.S. and the world—climate change—is profoundly intergenerational. Solving it requires a farsighted approach to diplomacy, invention, and technological deployment that a creaky old country will simply never master. This crisis urgently requires the input and ideas of the generations that will be most affected by it. If government of the elderly, by the elderly, and for the elderly will not perish from the Earth, the rest of us might suffer instead.

The ancient plutocrats can’t remember their names; this will not alleviate the unicorn epidemic. I’ve thought of a Gen-Xer who could potentially bail the nation out if elected. He’d loath running and you probably wouldn’t vote for him anyway.

The Red Badge of Merit

18 Thursday Apr 2019

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decline, generations, merit, society, Vox Day

Again, with the Vox Day business, here. Vox pointed out a disturbing (but fitting) trend in the new and worsening Amerika:

‘There are really two opposing schools, I guess you could say that there’s one that’s on the side of progressive ideology, whereas the other one is more in line with the way business was always run,’ Jeremy Zogby, a partner in Zogby Strategies, told DailyMail.com. ‘There is definitely a progressive slant in Millennials and Gen Z.’

Among all Americans, 47 percent prioritized diversity in workplace hiring, while 37 percent said merit should matter most.

Just as identity politics trump ideology politics, mediocrity trumps merit in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society. Welcome to life as the Third World has always known it.

This, however, is a trend that you need not accept. Pursue excellence even as you embrace your identity.

It’s going to be a rough (possibly utility and food deprived) ride, folks. But, he’s right as usual – don’t be a part of the slide.

SNL’s Legitimately Funny Skit

21 Monday Jan 2019

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Boomers suck, funny, generations, SNL, TPC

It’s like their writers read and heeded my Thanksgiving TPC column on the generations – the awesome X’ers, the pitiable Millenials, and the dreaded Boomers who just won’t die.

Funny as this all is, and it is hilarious, these are not stereotypes; the skit is spot-on, it’s funny because it’s 100% true.

From TPC – Happy Turkey Day: Ranking the Generations

22 Thursday Nov 2018

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generations, Piedmont Chronicles, Thanksgiving, TPC

Here we go:

Happy Turkey Day: Ranking the Generations

Happy Thanksgiving, America! Or Thanksgiving Week, whichever it happens to be. As we gather with assorted friends, relatives, and other annoying, stinking like three-day-old dead fish loved ones, let’s us analyze them by chronological category, politically, psychologically, and philosophically. For the Farcebookers and TeeVee watchers, now might be a good time to return to loftier observations. I hear Big Bird is rounding Columbus Circle to West 59th right about now…

[Big Bird Picture]…

Bobbing Towards Gomorrah. Picture from someone’s Pinterest.

Here follows a brief examination of the (mostly) living US generations, ranked and sorted by your hard-laboring, long-suffering National Affairs Meddler and Chief Prognosticator. I got ‘em all down, from best to worst. The determination dates are all mine, based upon popular assessments. As with nearly all of my work, this one is geared toward actual Americans, as would have been so-considered circa 1964. Civ-natties, equality freaks, Jordan Peterson cultists, and others of low intellect and poor breeding are hereby advised to retreat to the bloating comfort of all those leftovers.

Now, shall we?

Number One:

Generation X (1965 – 1979)

It’s not just that this is my generation, though that does provide some clarity. We had The Dukes of Hazzard, Pac-Mac, and The Empire Strikes Back. I rest my case. We, and the older generations, had some wacky ways. Our styles – bell bottoms, popped collars, wide ties, big hair, high-tops, and Madras shorts – were a little out there, a little silly upon retrospective review. But, at least they were styles. The new vogue of the nation involves rolling out of bed, throwing on a garbage bag, and sloughing off to nowhere while munching from a big bag of Cheetos.

Seriously, we are the last generation of what might be properly deemed “real” Americans. We are the last to grow up in and experience the fading glory of the remnants of the Old Republic. Early on, we were derided as jaded and disinterested slackers. But, really, how the hell else should we have been? We were the first generation to feel the full brunt of the hideous social and economic experiments of our predecessors. The first in post-Christian Amerika. The first with intentionally, deliberately failed schools. The first with money completely debased. The first under total governance. The last generation of traditional Americans in the new Amerikan Babel.

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Valediction

24 Sunday May 2015

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As I type this bit up I am listening to several of my friends discuss the graduation of their several children from high school.  It’s that time of year.  All across America eighteen-year-olds are preparing to say goodbye to lifelong friends, to embrace college, to join the workforce, and to become adults.  It is a joyful time.

The local fish wrapper ran, today, a separate pictorial section dedicated to our young people, their early accomplishments and their future plans.  In particular the paper dwelt upon the lives and missions of the valedictorians and salutatorians of local schools. These are young men and women who are poised to go far in life.

The news calls them the “best and brightest.”  By the popular measure of educational achievement, this moniker fits.  However, these words are today minced in a somewhat incorrect manner.  “Valedictorian” and “salutatorian” come from Latin roots – valediction and saluation.  The former is a farewell, the latter a greeting.

At ceremonies coast to coast these meanings serve a justifiable purpose.  The valedictorian speaks first to bid the class farewell to the sheltered academic lives the members have known.  The salutatorian then speaks to the promise of the coming years. Or, something like that.

Those acquainted with the works of John Taylor Gatto or who have children of school age, surely understand the decline of quality in American public education.  Gatto was formerly New York’s teacher of the year (State and City).  His distinguished career spanned decades.  Now he speaks and writes of the critical need for drastic school reform.  His writing is frequently published at lewrockwell.com.  He is the author of The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling (2000).

Gatto has related the American model of public education to Soviet-era brainwashing:

Two years before I ran across that Atlantic broadside, I encountered a different analysis in the financial magazine Forbes. I was surprised to discover Forbes had correctly tracked the closest inspiration for school psychologizing, both its aims and its techniques, to the pedagogy of China and the Soviet Union. Not similar practices and programs, mind you, identical ones. The great initial link with Russia, I knew, had been from the Wundtian Ivan Pavlov, but the Chinese connection was news to me. I was unaware then of John Dewey’s tenure there in the 1920s, and had given no thought, for that reason, to its possible significance:

The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values by psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not confined to separate courses or programs…they are not isolated idiosyncracies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous books and other educational materials in programs packaged by organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the techniques to teachers. Some packages even include instructions on how to deal with parents and others who object. Stripping away psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries to be discussed in group sessions, and through role-playing assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing programs in China under Mao.

The Forbes writer, Thomas Sowell, perhaps invoking the slave states in part to rouse the reader’s capitalist dander, could hardly have been aware himself how carefully industrial and institutional interest had seeded Russia, China, Japan, and the Pacific Islands with the doctrine of psychological schooling long ago, nearly at the beginning of the century, and in Japan’s case even before that. All along we have harvested these experimental growths in foreign soil for what they seem to prove about people-shaping.

 – Gatto, The Empty Child, Chapter 13 of The Underground History of American Public Education (2000).

“Slaves,” “people-shaping,” and “brainwashing” are alarming and damning.  However, from my experience I find them succient and apt discriptions of American education.

I was lucky growing up.  I had a slew of teachers, older and steeped in the traditions of real education – the old school way, who actually dared and cared to teach.  I remember them fondly.  Also, in high school, college and graduate school I possessed a hard-headed resilience and independence which plagues me to this day.  You may sense in my writing.

Today schools are little more than prisons crossbred with day care centers.  Our children are marched around like cattle by overweight nitwits.  They are subjected to communist indoctrination and cultural immorality.  State-worship is everywhere.  Rules must be obeyed perfectly.  Freakism of every strip is revered.  God is banned from the building.

In all this idiocy the one thing missing is teaching – learning and educational experiment are vacant in our public schools.  They are unwanted qualities among the people.  As George Carlin used to say, the system wants people just smart enough to operate the machines and file the paper – they do not want educated people capable of free thought or consideration.

By the grace of God Almightly the “best and brightest” are often times exempted from this nonesense.  Many possess those rebellious traits I hold dear.  Many are allowed to pursue real studies in real academic subjects.  These are statistical outliers.  The other children, the majority, are treated like sheep and criminals.

A boy in West Virginian was recently ARRESTED for wearing a t-shirt which expressed support for the NRA and the Second Amendment.  No-one was bothered by the shirt. The lad harmed none.  However, the Second Amendment representing the last hope of freedom for oppressed people (like students), the shirt had to be banned and demonized. In an overreaction typical of modern schools administrators, the teacher and principal called the local Gestapo.  The child was led away in handcuffs – for wearing a shirt.

The charges were later dismissed by an honest judge.  However, great damage has been done.  The boy’s mother is suing the school for violating her son’s civil rights.  Go mama!

Long ago, public schools had civics classes.  In those classes the Constitution, its traditions and foundations were taught.  This included the second amendment and the necessary right and obligation of rebellion against tyranny.  Revolution was celebrated. Today, as best I can gather, such thought or instruction would constitute a criminal offense.  Our babes are taught the government is the end all and be all of human existence.  Its supremacy and place must never be challenged.

This is a crime, in and of itself, equal with all the positive modern instruction concerning dependence, homosexuality, death culture, etc.  Anything goes and is okay, our children are taught, so long as it does not make any sense.  I imagine that math, being completely based on absolute truth, is completely absent from the new schools.  Robots and foreigners can always add for us.  This subtracts from the ability of our people to independently endure.  It cries out for vengeance.  Most ears are deaf to that cry.

Back to our new graduates … the fish-wrapper relayed to its readers how a valedictorian and salutatorian of a local high school treated their classmates to the verse and wisdom of Dr. Seuss.  This is a commonality in schools these days.  Oh, the places you’ll go… This small child’s book was read, in part, in one of my law classes.  Maybe it was at our graduation.  It was foolish and inappropriate.

drseussbook

(Dr. Seuss, keeping children and adults shit stupid since 1937.  Google.)

What kind of world is it when the words of Jesus, Jefferson and Cicero are absent and replaced by the sophomoric rhymes of the kindergarten?  Seuss is the level of the new school – childish, pointless, and optimistically vacuous.

Were I permitted to address a graduating class I too would present a Seuss book.  I would introduce the Cat in the Hat. I would then rip it in half, throw it on the floor and proceed to tell the children that they were, that day, freed from one form of government oppression.  I would congratulate them for surviving without arrest records. I would then extol them of the crucial importance of real learning.  Never let schooling interfere with education.  Never let education interfere with learning.  Question everything.  Accept no mastery.  Put down with brutality that slavery prepared for your adult lives.  I would never be invited back again.

Before I wrote about my experience in college and in law school.  I ridiculed myself for opportunities lost and the system for lack of substance.  Schooling is what one makes of it.  I hope our future generations grasp this.  I hope they reject the new theories of dumbed-down complacency.  I hope they prosper.  Congratulations to the Class of 15.

 

Perrin Lovett

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