It is a curious phenomenon that older people ask any young person, “How does your generation think?”
They would be most offended if someone asked THEM “How does your generation think?” That’s different. They are all over the place, of course. I have given this a lot of thought and have found several sources of this illusion.
First of all, there is the modern media’s use of The Youth Culture. They think that all “youth” thinks like them so they are The Wave of the Future. They have been looking for proofs of this and reporting it all my life.
I remember seeing opinion surveys in the mid-60s which showed that eighty percent of the so-called Hippie Generation, eighty percent, thought that longhair on males was effeminate! Such information did not make it to CBS Nightly News.
Another source of this “What Young People Think” is that older people do not realize that gestation ends at a very early age. We talk about the third month of pregnancy, the sixth month of pregnancy. Then we talk about the crisis when a kid learns to say “No!” at age two, the Terrible Twos.
To older people, children are at A Stage of Development. It seems that the older you get, the longer anyone younger than you is at a Stage of Development.
I was never an idiot, so I was never a socialist, but socialism is always looked upon as a Stage of Development, the Youthful Idealist. Old or young, you have to be feeble minded to think a bunch of bureaucrats, with Mommy Professor guiding them, can run the economy well.
True, a larger number of people who have just left their real mommies and are first exposed to Mommy Professor do take his pretenses seriously. But people who do that generally have parents who haven’t brownout it themselves.
Don’t wonder where the new generation is coming to before you think about where it is coming FROM.
Stage of gestation and the Youth Culture Thinking are two factors. There is another that is more general.
If someone asks you about your own city where you have lived for decades, it will very complex to your mind. You will know the figures personally, the history intimately You will know many occurrences, now solidified into Inevitable History, that could easily have gone either way.
But to you ANOTHER city’s characteristics are much simpler. That is one reason Jews are such Great Philosophers. Ask them about Jewish thought and they will give you a solid hour of detail and complexity. Ask them about the outside world and they will find it very simple.
Ask a Frenchman about Germans and he will tell you they are simply Bad or Uncultured. Ask a Jew about ANYBODY else and they will tell you they are Bad. SIMPLY bad. At best, they are trying to be better, but all gentiles are basically bad people who maybe trying to withhold their irrational hatred of Good Jews.
This is not a big secret or a Conspiracy. It is the theme of sermons every Saturday allover the world.
But the most relevant point here is that Jews think of Gentiles as good or bad SIMPLY by their attitude toward Jews or, in the absence of specifically anti-Semitic behavior, in terms of how they treat minorities Jews identify with, the other who are Suffering, the them that seems to be the only justification today for being a Jew.
Real Jews will often say that the Holocaust killed Judaism or Israel killed Judaism. What they mean is that all of the traditions and so forth are scarcely mentioned in public by Jews. You are Jewish or non-Jewish by your new faith of loving Israel or identifying with other who have Suffered.
When anyone says “I am Jewish and…” they are NEVER going to say anything about Jewish Tradition or anything of the sort. They are ALWAYS going to tell you about how they identify with other Suffering Minorities.
They will never SAY that consider all white gentiles to be basically evil, but there is no other way to interpret it. And anti-Semites’ view of Jews is equally simple.
So the older you get, the more “young people” constitute a group which, unlike the complex views of your peers, can be explained in a few words.
#1 by Epiphany on 02/20/2010 - 7:33 am
I wonder if the political Left really buys the claim that Communists, somehow, champion the wrokers? I have always doubted it. I think that the Communists have always been anti–Christian.
#2 by Simmons on 02/20/2010 - 11:03 am
Back to the basics, I hope Bob you take this thread much much farther.
Word to the wannabee PHDs here is the best advice you will ever get, “Just ask them.”
By this I mean its wonderful to conduct research at telescopic distances in order to gather the background info which will allow you ask the pertinent questions, but there comes a time when you must actually ask the right questions of your subject.
Kevin MacDonald comes to mind, writer of wonderful books, but he leaves the last nails sticking up because for all the opportunities he has he absolutley refuses to ask the jews themselves what they think. Hint its called an interogation.
#3 by Simmons on 02/20/2010 - 11:31 am
The Left is nothing, not even the respectable right can give the Left any form of any consequense.
If any of you were to even begin any basic research into the Left by inhabiting their web groups (internet based college bull sessions) you would find out that they must be strictly policed in order to protect the cult kidees from influences that would destroy their delicate mental balance.
Now the respectable right teaches us to shriek and shout at the lefties which lets the big momma left to act as the cult kidee protector, but this is all a nearly useless game.
If you are feeling sadistic ask these cultkiddies a question, a well researched question, a Mantra based question for example.
PC is the religion used to deny physical reality that man (some) seeks thru inquiry and interogation.
#4 by backbaygrouch4 on 02/20/2010 - 12:39 pm
Two points.
Does anyone recall a media survey of young construction workers, journeyman plumbers, apprentice welders, electricians,etc.? Of course not, all young people go to college and are in thrall to the Red Brigade professors, so you only have to survey the inmates to arrive at the opinions of the young.
Great Jewish philosophers? Name one. And I don’t mean obscurantist scribblers admiring each other’s disguised mathematics and pedantic larding. Occasionally they produce a popularizer of the thought of others and the publishing industry flogs it as original. The men who write coherently the explanation of our society are uniformly Greek and Roman Pagans and Christians. This means Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Calhoun etc. The only Jew of any stature is the Christ and He was rejected by them. He established a formulation that runs counter to their thought and practice.
#5 by Dave on 02/20/2010 - 12:39 pm
Youth, middle age, old age, is all of the same cloth.
Stereotypical attributions to the various stages of life miss the tether that binds us.
Mastering swords and the skills that go with them are essential in life. This effort, this focus, is the beginning of learning to make sense, of learning how to think.
#6 by shari on 02/20/2010 - 1:20 pm
The big idea of consolidating,blending and controlling everything,and calling it progress, is coming unglued. It never worked and now can’t even APPEAR to work. Shutting down the Amren conference is nothing,as far as the change of tide is concerned. My Grandmother told me a few days before she died,at age 91, in 1996, that I never need to worry about anything. Of course, I have worried my brains out, but I believe her.
#7 by shari on 02/20/2010 - 1:22 pm
Interesting new feature!?!
#8 by BGLass on 02/20/2010 - 3:45 pm
The post made me think: That whites see themselves as Bad should alert them that they are Judaized, (or something-else-ized, since they stand accused), but it never does. Some white voted for Obama for developmental reasons—just to get it on t.v. and see if the public had really agreed with the idea of letting the youth-think-crowd be their teachers, or if parents just didn’t know what they were doing behind closed doors. Nobody on t.v. noticed. They just saw proof that whites had finally come around to the shared dream of their own genocide. The scariest thing about past teachers was that they COULD teach Saul Alinsky for forty years without getting bored. The leash on reality was that tight. By contrast, stages-of-gestation moves on. White Badness (to whites) is a cue to fix, change, grow. In suffering everything remains static. It’s best relationship is commiseration, misery loves company. It’s worst, scapegoating and genocide of the out-groups that are necessarily created by shared suffering. It’s hard to see a way out of that.
#9 by Epiphany on 02/20/2010 - 4:24 pm
The entire ideology of modern man, seems to be some form of Socialism– whether Communism, Fascism, Nazism, or even progressivism. All wish for more centralization and more control of the various aspects of society.
Bob Whitaker probably knows a whole lot about the events of the Twentieth Century. Of all people, he probably realizes the danger of any and all forms of Totalitarianism. I thought that it was most intriguing that colleges professors are so fixated on Hitler– precisely, because they hate him so much.