Posted on 02/23/2010 6:45:19 PM PST by TaraP
The current economic crisis is not a failure of capitalism, but a failure of culture. Generation Zero explores the cultural roots of the global financial meltdown - beginning with the narcissism of the 1960's, spreading like a virus through the self-indulgent 90's, and exploding across the world in the present economic cataclysm.
Generation Zero goes beneath the shallow media headlines and talking head sound bites to get to the source of today's economic nightmare. With a cutting edge style and haunting imagery, this must see documentary will change everything you thought you knew about Wall Street and Washington.
Featuring experts, authors, and pundits from across the political spectrum, Generation Zero exposes the little told story of how the mindset of the baby boomers sowed the seeds of economic disaster that will be reaped by coming generations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JgaZnIJRA
This is a heck of a program. Eye opening.
I thought so too!
Highly recommended watch...catch the replay if you missed it.
Thanks for the link!
It really got its start in the early 20th century but didn’t reach critical mass until the 1960s.
A simple example is health care “reform”.
Current health care reform is about people forcing someone else to pay for their health care. It isn’t about lower costs, if it were it would start with tort reform.
We now have millions who feel it is perfectly fine to steal from someone else as long as it is done under cover of government. It is all for the greater good and all - their greater good...
It is interesting that the title of the video is ‘Generation Zero “The Abyss”’.
Karl Marx’s goal is to take humanity into the Abyss of Destruction. Looks like his desire might be coming true unless humanity does what it has to do to stop it.
What I thought rang so true, is when they talked about the family in the 50’s how women wanted so much for there children since they had come out of the Depression, waited in Soup lines they never wanted their own kids to experience this, so they gave them everything basically a generation of *Spoiled Brats* and here we are today.....
Watch the rerun at Midnight Eastern Time. It's worth staying up for.
It is interesting that I associated Zer0 with the title. Zer0 is an appropriate president for Generation Zero. It’s all image over substance and buying a car for the paint job without looking under the hood.
It started with the hippies and their protests of the 60s and they ended up teaching at all levels and it fanned out into every walk of life from there...
Now Arnold is on Greta. What a tool!
Failure of Culture - BINGO!
“No one is humiliated who has not humiliated himself first”
Confucious
That’s very true.....
It was such a shift in cultures from the World War 2 Generation to a Generation of *Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out*
The beginning of an end......
These guys connect all the dots, looks like an awesome job.
Someone needs to get it on the air, on cable, on the internet. Wont’ do any good unless it is seen by people.
The line “We have socialism for the very poor, socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the middle class” was the money quote for me.
Hanety was at his best tonight. Great program, if scary!
That’s it right there. I witnessed the scum of the Haight/Ashbury come to Humboldt County in their Hippy Buses and move onto property they didn’t own and start growing dope and daring the property owners to evict them...
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