Posted on 05/20/2022 4:14:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Misery loves company. And unfortunately for America, the merchants of misery will be in charge for a long time.
My daughter’s college graduation last weekend was the first convocation held at the university since 2019. Although everyone was grateful for a return to normalcy, the pandemic still clouded the ceremonies; professors recounted the ways in which the students’ lives had been upended, commending them for soldiering on despite the unprecedented disruption.
Their praise only acted as a cruel reminder of the time, friendships, and experiences needlessly and irretrievably lost.
Campus, of course, never really returned to anything close to normal. Remote classes stifled learning; mask mandates and social distancing rules stifled activity. Any mild bump in local cases prompted stern warnings from the dean that soul-crushing lockdowns could return. What should have been one of the most enjoyable periods in their lives will be remembered instead as a black hole of fear and isolation.
Visibly weary, her classmates gathered on Saturday afternoon to trudge across the finish line. But their torment was not yet over. The same adults who enforced Medieval disease policies under the guise of modernity and science and who stole a big chunk of their youth had to take one last swipe at their high-paying captives.
One speaker after another harangued the students about their duty to confront every societal ill, real or perceived. According to the Betters with Letters seated on the dais, life isn’t about pursuing individual passions or creating a vibrant social life, or—God forbid—raising a family. Personal fulfillment can only be attained by acting as one-man armies in the woke war against -isms and -phobes, the keynote speaker—a man who presumably hasn’t left a college campus in any professional capacity since his 18th birthday—admonished the crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The grievance mongers should be chased out of the education system. Send them to a third world country to experience real hardship.
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This is what you get when you mail order a meat puppet to lead the nation.
The Do-Gooders are terrible, immoral people and should be told that at every opportunity. They should feel great shame for their selfish desire to appear better than others because they “care so much”.
I have a different take now on “Red Dawn”.
One of the intentions of that movie was to paint the picture that the ChiComs were the good guys, at the time China was pretending to be our friend.
I didn’t overthink it. I just wanted to be a “Wolverine!” and snuggle up to Patrick Swayze. ;)
The whole article should be read. Miserable, unhappy people are also full of anger which can be channeled into mass violence. France, on the eve of the Revolution, appears to have been full miserably unhappy and seethingly anger people.
America is increasingly resembling the former East Germany, a drab colorless peoples republic where secret police snitches reported on everyone and bumbling party apparatchiks ran a crumbling economy.
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