Posted on 12/31/2022 4:52:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
Our young people are being poisoned by wokesters and the country may never be the same.
Have you read George Orwell's perennially popular and spookily prescient book Animal Farm?
Written in 1945, it is recognized as one of the most foundational books of the 20th century and the book's satire vs. the reality of today is striking. The story tells of farm animals who collectively decided they would no longer give their productive efforts for the benefit of the farm family. The animals drove out the farmer. Then they divided up the "profits" of the farm to each animal, purportedly according to its needs. After the overthrow of the farmers, the pigs ultimately became the new overseers and enslaved the lesser animals.
Animal Farm addresses the problem of who believe society is unfair and are convinced in their own minds that there must be a better way. Except there isn't. The moral of the story is that collectivism and socialism do not work.
It takes intellectual rigor to avoid making the same mistakes repeatedly. It is challenging especially for the young and those who:
a. Did not acquire a good grounding in reason or academic discipline through education
b. Have never experienced real suffering or failure
c. Have been deprived of appropriate role models
Yet, warts and all, since our country was created, we've seen an unbroken string of generally successful adults, until recently.
Where did we go wrong, and how can we fix our shortcomings?
We all want our children and families to enjoy happiness, health, and success. Yet too often, there is no good life plan or clear direction. What has changed for so many who don't seem to be able to make a go of their lives anymore, while most of us over 40 made it?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How did your daughter become such a, a, well fool?
A friend, a retired Army infantry full colonel, who is older than you, gave his son who was about to be commissioned as 2Lt Infantry three books, FerhrenBach’s ‘This Kind of War’, Bernard Fall’s ‘Street Without Joy’ and Henderson’s ‘Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War’. His son reported that the Fehrenback book was ‘scary’ and he couldn’t finish it, the Fall book ‘dark and colonialist’ and he returned the Henderson book as a ‘apologia for racism’. It turns out his son didn’t know Henderson was a British Army officer and thought it was written by a ‘racist Southerner Lost Cause Myth perpetrator’.
He closely questioned his
son on how he viewed modern battle and was told in a condescending way ‘we don’t call it that anymore. the correct term is conflict control’ and if there is some ‘fighting’ technology is how the fighting be done.’
He also told his father that ‘That kind of muscle bound thinking is completely wrong and irrelevant to modern institutioal stakeholder militaries (yes ‘MILITARIES’).
His son said that ‘modern understanding’ is that all previous military history is ‘irrelevant and wrong thinking’ and reading Grant, Sherman, Pershing, Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Truscott etc is worse than a waste of valuable networking time it ‘implants dangerous sexist, racist , elitist, memes antithetical current woke political critiques’.
The completely screwed Kabul departure is a small , very small, piece of what woke US soldiers will do. Remember the Army made no effort to enforce a significant separation zone from the Afghan mobs and filled the ‘processing teams’ with ‘refugee relief specialists rather than being heavy on the infantry which was present in large numbers. Because we didn’t want to frighten the women and children and appear to be ‘colonialist aggressors’.
I would throw Atlas Shrugged into that list.
Well said!
We’re afflicted with a bad case of affluenza - the disease that causes us to not appreciate the bounty one has and where it came from.
The good news is that affluenza contains its own cure - sooner than later it destroys that bounty, making the patient suddenly appreciate what they had.
The process, though, can be rather painful.
Just send the gift books again with the critical information: that their mother censored it to protect them. “Way beyond them, inflammatory, bad attitude — very dark and unhealthy.”
They’ll eat it up.
“But neither of us had an answer as to what will swing the pendulum back to earlier, more productive times.”
That’s an easy one. The misery that the current attitudes will bring about will do the trick.
The only question, is how big the dose of misery will have to be.
Hitler’s biggest errors were his expansionist policies and the Holocaust.
He let his early successes go to his head.
“Are we farm animals, or do we wish to be Americans again? The choice is ours.”
We are (were) the farm owners and the farm animals are kicking us out of our farm... and doing a good job of it.
Four legs good. Two legs bad.
I’d add Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flys to that mix!
Her mother — my wife — was a Flaming Lib for many decades, from the late 1950s on. (She is much better now, by far.)
To be honest I was a liberal too, until about 1975, when my rapid drift to the Realist conservative side began. My wife and I reached an Accommodation in all love and Peace along the way. (This is good.)
Even so... Liberalism is an inherited condition.
VERY difficult to cure.
(...and grumpy old Gramps is SO conservative, you know...)
I sympathize. I have an adult niece with children that would have done much the same.
You describe liberalism that doctors describe opiod addiction.I suppose it is the addiction to ‘superior good thinking’.
It is sad. I am considering giving one or two of those same books to grandkids but not on a celebratory day...with a note written in it...”Your future if you do not wake up”. Altho maybe I should give them the DVD of “Schindler’s List?” Maybe they would WATCH that.
Note...I had my niece read Elie Weisel’s book about the holocaust when she was with us at @16...she is now a commie with a law degree. The schools have REALLY destroyed this nation.
Leftists are communists they know what they are doing.
In my house, we have talked about politics and society my children entire lives. This is how you rid America and the world of this scourge. Parents teaching and discussing issues with their children.
My 2 adult kids are both hard workers, doing great for themselves. 2 younger ones, TBD, but I expect they will be just fine.
You were far too subtle. :-)
Send each young relative a copy of Ayn Rand’s “The Virtue of Selfishness”.
They will be so shocked and outraged by the title they might read it!
“Hitler’s biggest errors were his expansionist policies and the Holocaust.”
It is very difficult to find a truly objective analysis of the period—everything is buried under tons of propaganda.
My assessment is that while he was not just a figure-head, he had less individual power and authority than “official” history states.
The secret societies that created, nurtured and supported him are the most important untold story.
If that is correct his largest disasters may not have been totally of his own making.
A lot of people just think of socialism kind of like Donald Fagen described it:
A just machine
To make big decisions
Programmed by fellas
With compassion and vision
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