If you stand athwart history yelling “Stop” you will be run over – by a club-wielding mob of Mostly Peaceful Protesters. The younger generations are mad as hell for good reason. Their futures have been mortgaged to appease Grover Norquist. Their brains have been crippled by leftist educators. Their careers have been outsourced to China, India, and evil robots. Homes in safe neighborhoods to start families have become ridiculously expensive.
I agree overall with what you say but have an issue with your clubbing India with China. I am an Indian Conservative and we are facing the same issues as you folks ..
As a Boomer with a late Gen X son and 3 grandkids, I have to agree. Boomers has become a derisive term because of our complacency and our ossification, especially among Gen Z and Millennials. Rightly so, as we have mortgaged their future, and their kids, our grandchildren.
BTW, I speak from the experience of being raised in SoCal middle class suburbia during the 60s and 70s. Our US WWII generation and early Boomers became absentee parents, creating latchkey kids, relying on our public schools to assume the role of creating responsible citizens. I lived it, to some extent.
"This is where things get ugly. 4D chess is a rough and dirty game."
Thanks for the article. What is your awareness of extrajudicial targetting? I strongly suggest that your rules or traditions include specific bylaws and duties for trusted servants who can identify and deal with outside interference from informants and alphabet agencies in a timely manner within legal means. 28 years experience.
In my opinion it was not Gramsci that marched through the institutions but TV and the advertising industry which was and is the most powerful culturally formative propaganda vehicle that ever existed.
Everything was both stripped of any kind of depth, and reduced to a saleable product a mere thing.
TV created a nation or more correctly a mass of zombified consumers.
Then of course there was/is the all-pervasive influence of the most powerful institution in the US, and by extension the rest of the world. The death-saturated values of which control and pattern every aspect of US culture and by extension the entire world - namely the Pentagon based military/industrial/"entertainment"-propaganda complex.
McLuhan told us that the "medium is the message". What then is the in-your-face-message of "beautiful bombs" and the world-wide network of thousands of US military bases both in the US and in almost every country on the planet.
I agree overall with what you say but have an issue with your clubbing India with China. I am an Indian Conservative and we are facing the same issues as you folks ..
As a Boomer with a late Gen X son and 3 grandkids, I have to agree. Boomers has become a derisive term because of our complacency and our ossification, especially among Gen Z and Millennials. Rightly so, as we have mortgaged their future, and their kids, our grandchildren.
BTW, I speak from the experience of being raised in SoCal middle class suburbia during the 60s and 70s. Our US WWII generation and early Boomers became absentee parents, creating latchkey kids, relying on our public schools to assume the role of creating responsible citizens. I lived it, to some extent.
Count me in. 25 year old millennial college student here. Will work to re-educate my peers where possible. Awesome post!
"This is where things get ugly. 4D chess is a rough and dirty game."
Thanks for the article. What is your awareness of extrajudicial targetting? I strongly suggest that your rules or traditions include specific bylaws and duties for trusted servants who can identify and deal with outside interference from informants and alphabet agencies in a timely manner within legal means. 28 years experience.
In my opinion it was not Gramsci that marched through the institutions but TV and the advertising industry which was and is the most powerful culturally formative propaganda vehicle that ever existed.
Everything was both stripped of any kind of depth, and reduced to a saleable product a mere thing.
TV created a nation or more correctly a mass of zombified consumers.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-comes-to-life
Then of course there was/is the all-pervasive influence of the most powerful institution in the US, and by extension the rest of the world. The death-saturated values of which control and pattern every aspect of US culture and by extension the entire world - namely the Pentagon based military/industrial/"entertainment"-propaganda complex.
McLuhan told us that the "medium is the message". What then is the in-your-face-message of "beautiful bombs" and the world-wide network of thousands of US military bases both in the US and in almost every country on the planet.