When I told her "I will never be half the Man your father was" it was clear I wasn't the first guy who'd expressed this entiment: she said her father responded to such comments with "you have no idea how you'd respond if you were in my situation."
Each generation thinks they are the Greatest and the successive lot are a bunch of losers...it happened to the Boomers, Gen X, and now Millenials. And yet, America comprises 4% of the global population but produces 24% of global GDP. SOMEBODY is working.
Articles like this need some aged cheese to accompany the whine. Every generation has slackers. At the same time, I know many Millenials who are of good, Deplorable stock who don't eat pods and thus don't get the attention they deserve. They should be nurtured, cultivated, and brought into the fold - we need every vote and every borderline Normal person to be red-pilled asap.
Will our youth fight for globalism and world governments? Nationalism is a pretext for patriotism. IMO only patriots fight with determination.
Important truth, easily forgotten.
“I will never be half the Man your father was”
I am reminded of a man in my youth who could set for hours and tell us of his exploits in the war. It would make my dad, who served with Patton, so mad, as this blowhard had never been out of the USA.
Dad rarely talked about what he did or saw. When he did, it was horrible.