Posted on 07/09/2020 7:50:35 AM PDT by Starman417
The first half of the 20th Century was one of the most devastating in human history. The people who lived through that calamitous period are called the Greatest Generation for good reason. They came of age during the Great Depression and went on to save the world from the Nazi and Japanese tyrannies. They fought hard to save the world and later built the United States into the dominant economic and military superpower on the planet.
The thing about the Greatest Generation was that their lives were tough… with a great depression sandwiched between two world wars, life was simply brutal. So when peacetime came around, they were enthusiastic about finally being able to focus on raising their families.
They of course wanted their kids to have better lives than they did. They didn’t want their kids have to deal with the food shortages, the unemployment and the wars that they had lived through. And so they pampered their children and tried to give them good lives. The problem is, their children became spoiled brats and grew into unrepentant socialists and Communists.
America saw that play out in front of their eyes during the 1960’s and 70’s. The postwar years saw an unprecedented economic boom in the United States with jobs and incomes growing to spectacular levels. Families moved to the suburbs, cars became ubiquitous and the golden age of television was upon us. So it’s not a great surprise that when things are going fairly well, spoiled children become spoiled young adults. Which is exactly what happened. From student protests demanding universities bend to their wills to anti-war marches demanding an end to the Vietnam War (really what they wanted was to not be drafted…) to supporting terrorist groups like the Weather Underground & the Black Panthers, young people spent much of the 1960’s & 70’s protesting and demanding pretty much everything. And when they didn’t get their way, they would cause mayhem, taking over universities, rioting and occasionally setting off bombs…
If that sounds a lot like what’s going on today in the streets, it’s no coincidence. The thugs out in the streets today causing mayhem are the children of those 1960’s hippies. One might think that parents who grew up in the midst of the chaotic, anything goes 60’s and 70’s might swing somewhat in the opposite direction and raise their children with a bit more discipline than they had growing up. But that’s not what happened. Just the opposite.
The children of the 80’s and 90’s and 00’s were even more spoiled than their parents. There was virtually no war – and of course, no draft – and although there were economic hiccups along the way, the economy grew steadily from the early 80’s. Things were often comfortable… Video games, participation trophies, MTV and grade inflation… what wasn’t to like? But something was going on… the hints of today’s chaos were being sowed without anyone noticing…
It was during this time that the radical students of the 1960’s and 70’s became the professors and administrators in the colleges they had previously attacked. They became politicians and media personalities and corporate flunkies and whatever passed for journalists. They became board members of foundations and literally wrote the text books used by their fellow travelers who’d become teachers in classrooms across the country.
And so here we are today… Not surprisingly, after these hippy fans of Marx and Lenin and Castro spent decades teaching America’s youth that the United States is evil and racist to its core, the youth have little respect for anything, much less their country. But more importantly, they have no awareness of context and history and reality. That Thomas Jefferson might have been a great if flawed man… Nope. That Gone with the Wind or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn might be masterpieces of literature despite their decidedly “unwoke” themes… Nope. That St. Louis might have been in the middle of a known world war when he led the Crusades… Doesn’t matter. That men can’t actually have babies… Scoff. Ronald Reagan once said: “It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
And that is what makes the current generation of people wreaking havoc in the streets so stupid.
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this is operation paperclip unexposed
and its impact on MIND CONTROL of the MASSES.
the medium IS the message
Just so you know, one thing both Rush and I have in common is that we both thought our generation was being stupid even at the time (60’s and 70’s).
The girl on the left has some figure.
and yes the greatest generation was so desperate to give their kids everything they didn’t have that in too many cases they gave them too much.
My father grew up in a brutally tough neighborhood in the 20s and 30s.
I grew up in a lower-middle-class Italian neighborhood in the 70s and 80s.
My nephews and nieces grew up im beautiful upper-class suburban neighborhoods..
My first Grand nephew is being treated l like a king. And that’s okay I can’t wait to buy him his first drum set. But there’s no battles to be fought to get to a better level of living. There’s no need. Just want. That’s not good.
We are now in the fourth line of this saying:
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.
G. Michael Hopf
Ping for later. It claims to have an answer to the question I have been asking for a long time: How did the greatest generation raise the lousiest parents who then raised the worlds worst children and subsequent generation(s)?
Greatest begat Boomer begat X begat Millennial and then came Z?
The image looks to be photo shopped.
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1. public schools: k-12 indoctrination
2. enrichment(both money and fodder:students) of colleges/universities via GI bill subsidy
True, there are no battles to be fought, as far as having a better standard of living.
Your grand nephew and others like him are not lacking in material things. What they need are values, and hopefully he’s getting values from the family, or church, or some combination of family and friends of the family and religion.
People like him raised like a king, will turn out fine, as long as he has values which will guide him through life.
Not all of us.
The failure of the Greatest Generation was to create an environment for their children that spared them the hardships that they endured. Who doesn’t want this for their offspring? The problem is that they were strengthened and tempered by their hardships that made them the Greatest Generation. It’s the ultimate irony that by doing for their children they ruined them. I read once that when a male child was born to an Eskimo family they would take them outside and put them nude on the ice and fill their mouth with snow. This was done to make the child strong and teach them that survival required strength and the ability to endure. Maybe we should learn that lesson.
Wow, so your father was born nearly a century ago! I am sure you have great stories from him growing up in that era in NYC.
(To be clear, I am talking about Boomers as a GROUP; I have no doubt that there are those who walked 7 miles to school each day, barefoot and uphill in each direction, I'm sure some of them are here on this site.)
Boomers were not in charge in the 60’s.
The sins of the fathers go to the 3rd and 4th generation. We can add single parent moms and roving fathers to the mix.
There are some factors too.
For example, the baby boomer children grew up and rebelled, by having sex outside marriage and smoking pot and listening to hard rock music.
When these people became parents themselves, it was harder for them to instill discipline in their own kids. How could they protest their kids having sex and smoking pot when they themselves had done the same as teens and young adults?
Hey, I went to college on the GI bill. I received my degree and worked, got married, and have paid in income taxes an exponential amount above what the GI bill paid for my education. I bought our house on the GI bill, paid beaucoup taxes on my house and paid off the mortgage. I will be 70 next year, and I am now retired. My wife and I still live in that house we purchased decades ago.
I’d say the government got a hell of a return on what it invested in me.
For one thing, they weren’t the greatest generation. The wife-swapping, porno, drunken backyard parties, and other hedonistic practices were all promoted by “the greatest generation.” The CIA, UN, abortion, and eugenics, are all “greatest generation” projects. What we see today is just fruit from some of the trees planted by this “greatest generation.”
The Greatest Generation gave us independence and the Constitution. The knock-off greatest generation did not raise children to appreciate the legacy of the truly great forefathers, and often ridiculed them and their values.
My father and mother grew up on the lower east side. While my father had it much harder coming from a broken home. He slept in the pantry on a cot with no father to guide him. Thankfully he turned out to be a great man.
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