The greatest generation lived through such adversity that two things happened: they thought the value of the morals that allowed them to triumph was obvious, and they wanted to shield their children from what they suffered. Thus, they failed to teach their children, the baby boomers, the truth about why the world works the way it does.
The Boomers clung to some of those old fashioned ideals out of mimicry, rather than understanding.
Meanwhile, the vacuum of real moral instruction was filled by Marxist academics. What used to be a powerless class of aggrieved weaklings found themselves in a position to become authority figures to young people who were never properly taught how the world should be.
Many Boomers and Gen Xers, coddled by their parents sheltered from true strife, and experimenting with progressive degeneracy like drugs and free love, became bleeding hearts with unhealthy levels of openness. Even those who didn't were blind to the true dangers of corporatism, globalism, and political correctness.
Then Millenials enter a world still without real personal strife, and now being taught that the erosion of traditional ideas is synonymous with progress, and they eagerly accelerate that process in search of enemies worth fighting.
That's my theory on how we got here. Long ago, bad ideas filled a vacuum left by good ideas that failed to propagate themselves. Now bad ideas run rampant. Only now are ideas truly battling, and those with bad ideas are being forcibly exposed by the things they have to do to maintain their influence. Meanwhile there is a great resurgence of good ideas.
"Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men."
We're in the last part of that cycle, and when we triumph, the golden age that follows will be tremendous.
The greatest generation lived through such adversity that two things happened: they thought the value of the morals that allowed them to triumph was obvious, and they wanted to shield their children from what they suffered. Thus, they failed to teach their children, the baby boomers, the truth about why the world works the way it does.
The Boomers clung to some of those old fashioned ideals out of mimicry, rather than understanding.
Meanwhile, the vacuum of real moral instruction was filled by Marxist academics. What used to be a powerless class of aggrieved weaklings found themselves in a position to become authority figures to young people who were never properly taught how the world should be.
Many Boomers and Gen Xers, coddled by their parents sheltered from true strife, and experimenting with progressive degeneracy like drugs and free love, became bleeding hearts with unhealthy levels of openness. Even those who didn't were blind to the true dangers of corporatism, globalism, and political correctness.
Then Millenials enter a world still without real personal strife, and now being taught that the erosion of traditional ideas is synonymous with progress, and they eagerly accelerate that process in search of enemies worth fighting.
That's my theory on how we got here. Long ago, bad ideas filled a vacuum left by good ideas that failed to propagate themselves. Now bad ideas run rampant. Only now are ideas truly battling, and those with bad ideas are being forcibly exposed by the things they have to do to maintain their influence. Meanwhile there is a great resurgence of good ideas.
"Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men."
We're in the last part of that cycle, and when we triumph, the golden age that follows will be tremendous.