The Old Man
It was with the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation that “our men in uniform” became “our boys.” In earlier generations, a guy did not go out to fight so people would call him “a boy.” But back then being a man was a good thing.
The self-styled Greatest Generation did the only thing it would ever do when it was young. It wants to be seen as young forever. Tom Brokaw is now cashing in on another group that is doddering but wants to be called “children,” the 60s generation.
Brokaw is of course pandering to those who want to be know as the 60s generation, the spoiled children whom the “Greatest Generation,” with its demand for total entitlement, produced in its own image.
But the fact is that the REAL generation of the 1960s was comparatively conservative. The “Greatest Generation” was the ONLY cadre in which a majority of whit men were liberal.
I was driving a young English girl around the Southland on a vacation at the end of the 60s and we were watching a TV program where the moderator asked live young people what they thought of long hair. She laughed at the question, since everybody who watched American TV knew that young people were all for long hair on boys. I told her this was not he case.
She was astounded. Almost every teenager and young adult on there went YUCCH! at long hair on males! But today, all we know is what TV tells us.
When I say I’m old, I get the usual required “Oh, Bob, you’re still YOUNG!” In our age, after two generations of the “our boys in uniform” now dying of old age and the “Don’t trust anyone over 30” crowd on its walkers, the fact that I consider maturity a VIRTUE is like a message from Mars.
#1 by Dave on 12/04/2007 - 11:46 am
I am currently on a mortified watch of the Baby Generation’s wholesale drift into senility. It really is quite horrifying, watching it as I am in real time.
BW has said, “All I want before I die is to produce a group of clear thinkers”.
That turns my mind to how extraordinary this small group of participants here are. If you dispute that, you just don’t have a handle on the run of the (deteriorating) minds out there, especially the rapidly “going out of it” minds of the Baby Boomers.
The “Greatest Generation” is already completely “out if it”, the few that are still alive, that is.
In contrast here in this seminar, we have people like Alan B. coming up with these absolutely fabulous phrases such as “Mommy Professor’s talking dolls” and “Complexity obscures the obvious” and AFKAN making comments such as “They draw the lines and then paint within them”, and Mark saying, “Those who own the present own the Future. Those who own the present NEVER have any serious relationship to what is really going to happen”, and BW saying things like, “What creates the future is always little noticed”.
Then there is Mperdling, Hardric, Simmons, Shari, Danebor, Pain and the all the rest, with their wonderful posts, posts of first class minds.
It just doesn’t get any better than this.
Which brings us back BW’s desire, “All I need is to develop a group of clear thinkers before I die”.
There is nothing more important than that, which why BW’s writings and audio are so important.
I see the horrifying process of the Baby Boom generation’s wholesale descent into senility every day. The very nature of senility is that the “aged mind” has no awareness of its own calcification. Now, there are many extraordinary individuals, such as BW, that never go down that road. But the fact is, most do.
“Whomsoever He (God) causes to live long, He reduces to an abject state in constitution”.
As I watch in real time the Baby Boomers wholesale descent into senility, I am truly horrified as to the political implications. These people were victims of the public school system and Mommy Professor to begin with. Most of them think, “With time, progress continues and justice triumphs”. A sentiment perfectly suited to spoiled nitwits, who lived long but know nothing of the real world, a world where the essence of things is the perfect absence of justice, not its presence.
Accordingly, the picture ain’t pretty.
#2 by Simmons on 12/04/2007 - 1:33 pm
Two great provacative posts, made me think. We are doing that market research that the respectables fail to do, and the lefties are afraid to do. My brother in law is a case in point raised by the Greatest to begin an early regression into second childhood, its almost frightening. He is a pure product of his media, which is emotive, both frightening and comforting which ever is needed at whatever point and at all times overwhelming. Its driving him crazy, literally. This does help me understand the battlefield though.
#3 by Lord Nelson on 12/04/2007 - 6:00 pm
Well Coach, you better stick around because there is a lot more to see. This is the most testing time in OUR history, if only because so few can see it.
(ALL White countries, and ONLY White countries)
#4 by AFKAN on 12/04/2007 - 10:41 pm
Dave made a stronger point than many realized when he spoke of the premature senility of the Baby Boomers, for whom I hold the utmost contempt.
Glance at the eyes of the people you see in their cars during drive time, and you see a combination of fear, and an unwillingness to face the cause of that fear.
You see Beaten Dogs.
They have so much invested in a fantasy model of Reality that they literally dope themselves into impotence to avoid having the Mind deal with what the Senses are plainly telling it.
They don’t think; they simply react.
In short, they have not been “educated,” in the correct, uniquely Human meaning of the term.
They have been trained, and they have been trained by their Racial Enemies to submit to all manner of indignities with graceful aplomb.
Brokaw simply tapped one market, that is now tapped out.
His latest work deals with the next market, a demography that loves to praise its moral superiority over the self-proclaimed “Greatest Generation.”
Brokaw is silent on this demographic disparity…
My concern is different.
Having my nephews down has convinced me that about ninety percent of their Racial kinsmen fail to meet the value-added test for inclusion into a community.
The default value of their peer group – the value that overrides ALL other values, even survival, is “Equality.”
They got THAT from their parents, the Baby Boomers, who got it from THEIR parents, the self-proclaimed “Greatest Generation.”
I asked my nephews how they would feel if the government forced their children to attend
Indoctrination Centers“school” at bayonet point, and the bayonets are held by the 101st Airborne.They laughed, and said that would never happen, in America.
I showed them the pictures…
Whenever I face any issue, of any size whatsoever, I think of how my choices will affect my nephews.
The rest is easy.
More to follow…
Have I mentioned tonight how much I hate these people?
#5 by Back Bay Grouch on 12/05/2007 - 8:01 am
In 1972 Richard Milhaus Nixon carried the youth vote. The leftist idiots in the media want to relive their delusions by repeating this event by going for Hillary. I love it. So convinced are they of their victories that they kept coming back for more. They don’t know how to count, how to get over 50% + 1. The GOP’s best hope is that the Democrats will demand a repeat of 1972 and the clintonistas are dumb enough to do it. This is good because the Republicans are too stupid to win it without their help.
#6 by shari on 12/05/2007 - 8:59 am
When I was 14, I felt for the first time a sensation of great weariness come over me, as if gravity was suddenly pumped up. I thought then that life was going to be boring and it mostly has been. The best thing about the past 50yrs, is that it is over.
#7 by AFKAN on 12/06/2007 - 1:28 am
in reply to Shari:
you wrote:
in reply:
If you look back to, say, 1957, you will see a pattern I have only recently begun to understand: essentially, the American people have been treated as subjects in a tremendous psychological and cultural experiment, where they have been given contradictory messages, while being denied the power to resolve the inherent contradictions.
Thus, the slide into the Second Virtual Reality, and the slide into the ever-stronger use of prescription tranquilizers, even as The Way is defined ever more precisely for them.
Thus, we have the tremendous irony that the generation with the greatest access to information in the history of the world, and the greatest power of social connectedness ever, have used it to become (1) ever more dumbed down, and (2) ever more alike.
Thus, statements that are inherently foolish, and even self-contradictory, become accepted as Deep Social Wisdom.
Take “Our Diversity Is Our Strength.”
Nothing could be further from the truth; yet, it has become a social truth, and does so in an environment where the pressure and power to conform becomes ever more powerful, and ever more effective.
The end result is neutrality, leading to impotence.
This will lead to anger, and we can only wonder what Form that anger will take.
I see this process kicking into high gear in the early Sixties, heightened by the widespread introduction of color television, and the New Curriculum.
I remember when I was told we would learn something called “New Math,” and would be taking courses called “Contemporary Issues In The Social Sciences,” instead of Algebra to Calculus, and History.
I can identify with that feeling of “heaviness” you felt; I felt something like that, which I see now is depression – anger turned inward – in response to what I KNEW were a series of institutional lies…
Take that System of double-bind messages, and carry it forward over two generations.
That takes us to where we are today.
I am not at all sanguine about the future of America as we have known it.
I was discussing my anger at the state of my nephew’s education, and an old, wise friend told me he used to feel the same way. Then, one day, he realized that the Children of the Sixties had inculcated the functional equivalent of a death wish, and there was nothing that could be done about the vast tide of sociocultural inertia we were facing, save at the margins.
Anger, at the future my nephews, my Family, my nation and my Race have been denied, is a very useful emotion, and motivation.
I know who – and what – is responsible for this, and I am doing all in my power to deal with it as effectively as I can, starting with my nephews learning to NEVER see themselves as victims.
I know who – and what – is responsible.
Have I mentioned tonight how much I hate these people?