Jay Leno, Ronald Reagan, Alyssa Ahlgren, hipster coffee shops, Robert Malthus and Alanis Morrissette all tied up in one man's lament about a lack of a common body of knowledge.
So true. Our young will never know what it was like to not be just a cell-phone call away, to have to find a payphone (what's a pay phone?) if you were out and about and needed help or to call home, to have to use a paper map to find your way to a new location, to use microfiche, an encyclopedia, and the card catalog at the library for research.... So much is now "history", but so many are so ignorant. Unfortunately, people of *our* (and to a degree, our parents') generation are largely to blame, as we (that is a big, general "we") are failing to educate the young. We've forgotten that education begins *at home*, and school augments that education. If we were properly educating at home, Marxism wouldn't have the same appeal.
I think it also explains the vast chasm between parties. We do not share a common set of “facts” from news sites. Not like the days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley when all agreed on what was news and kept their attitudes out of it. Who are they? Go ask your grandparents.
I once wrote that once upon a time, Americans wanted to go to Boise, but wanted to take different routes. Problem being, when you want to go to the same place but by different routes, there can be a debate about pros and cons and a decision can result. You can even choose your own route if it pleases you and still get there. Now, we don't even want to go to the same place and if you can’t even agree on the destination, there will never be a resolution.
"...don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." Makes me wonder whether the next generation will be willing or able to keep or earn prosperity in the future. And if they manage to do so, what event(s) precipitated the acquisition of the necessary energy and effort?
Accept the fact that our Golden Age is past. We're living on the fumes right now. The next Turning when we emerge from this Crisis, will not be what any of us above age 10 grew up on. No one can know what it will be. It could be an Orwellian police state 1984 nightmare as the Regime plans. It could be a World Made By Hand as theorized by JH Kunstler. It could be a balkanized America w severely different governments at various levels of war. It will NOT ever go back to what it has been.
Preach it bro. Ive been trying to tell this to all the clueless blogsters and commenters who insist that we can solve all these deep social ills if only [elect more X, Constitutional convention, better marketing, our own social media, elect more Y, fill in blank].
No no no. This doesn't change until we suffer. Suffering brings change. Real change. The rest is cosmetics. Humans are sadly just that obstinate and stupid. Bible is mostly a record of this. We only indulge these insane policies and perversions because we have the wealth to do so. When that wealth goes we'll find out what's real (survival) and what's fake (that which ends in death).
Jesse Watters took over the Jaywalking franchise for a while on the Bill O'Reilly show, then Jesse became a host himself and farmed it out to his employee.
So true. Our young will never know what it was like to not be just a cell-phone call away, to have to find a payphone (what's a pay phone?) if you were out and about and needed help or to call home, to have to use a paper map to find your way to a new location, to use microfiche, an encyclopedia, and the card catalog at the library for research.... So much is now "history", but so many are so ignorant. Unfortunately, people of *our* (and to a degree, our parents') generation are largely to blame, as we (that is a big, general "we") are failing to educate the young. We've forgotten that education begins *at home*, and school augments that education. If we were properly educating at home, Marxism wouldn't have the same appeal.
An interesting take on culture!
I think it also explains the vast chasm between parties. We do not share a common set of “facts” from news sites. Not like the days of Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley when all agreed on what was news and kept their attitudes out of it. Who are they? Go ask your grandparents.
I once wrote that once upon a time, Americans wanted to go to Boise, but wanted to take different routes. Problem being, when you want to go to the same place but by different routes, there can be a debate about pros and cons and a decision can result. You can even choose your own route if it pleases you and still get there. Now, we don't even want to go to the same place and if you can’t even agree on the destination, there will never be a resolution.
"...don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." Makes me wonder whether the next generation will be willing or able to keep or earn prosperity in the future. And if they manage to do so, what event(s) precipitated the acquisition of the necessary energy and effort?
Accept the fact that our Golden Age is past. We're living on the fumes right now. The next Turning when we emerge from this Crisis, will not be what any of us above age 10 grew up on. No one can know what it will be. It could be an Orwellian police state 1984 nightmare as the Regime plans. It could be a World Made By Hand as theorized by JH Kunstler. It could be a balkanized America w severely different governments at various levels of war. It will NOT ever go back to what it has been.
Preach it bro. Ive been trying to tell this to all the clueless blogsters and commenters who insist that we can solve all these deep social ills if only [elect more X, Constitutional convention, better marketing, our own social media, elect more Y, fill in blank].
No no no. This doesn't change until we suffer. Suffering brings change. Real change. The rest is cosmetics. Humans are sadly just that obstinate and stupid. Bible is mostly a record of this. We only indulge these insane policies and perversions because we have the wealth to do so. When that wealth goes we'll find out what's real (survival) and what's fake (that which ends in death).
Jesse Watters took over the Jaywalking franchise for a while on the Bill O'Reilly show, then Jesse became a host himself and farmed it out to his employee.