tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17290639451933556942024-02-18T21:58:15.479-08:00Generational HelotsHow the youth are enslaved by the entitlements of the past...Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-26241325966290881302015-01-16T21:42:00.001-08:002015-01-16T21:45:06.483-08:00Epic Baby Boomer Myopia! ... or Tone Deafness... or Narcissism... or hashtag FAILThis should be in a Tom Wolfe novel, it is so:<br />
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1) stereotypical</div>
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2) obviously stupid and vapid and vacuous and self
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The Boomer Political Establishment was so busy trying to
square the circle of being pro free speech, (after decades in power enacting
hate crime laws and speech codes on college campuses), pro free expression, (after liberating Larry Flint and liberating sexuality in the 60s only to get jobs creating touching rules and intimacy
regulations once they became Deans, sorry Millenials, No Free Love For You!… etcetera, etcetera, etcetera as the King of Siam
once said ); so busy squaring an ideology of “let’s invade the world, and at the same
time invite the world here!” with “Tolerance!” <br />
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“Look, Diversity<span style="font-family: Symbol;"> </span>is
Strength(TM)! Once Third World folks from Iron Age cultures come here and begin to
shop at Malls and watch Lena Dunham, they won’t cling to centuries of religious beliefs, they won’t
cling to a tribal retribution culture when their religion is blasphemed. They
will be full of drole irony and sarcasm towards the sacred. Their Sacred,
sorry. There is no Sacred, as there is no God, only your God, and your Sacred. It took the Irish four generations in America to come around, surely the Algerians can be culturally lobotomized in three!"</blockquote>
Sorry, I was laughing to myself as I realized all those Boomer
taught literature and history courses, and HR training sessions, about the
Power Structure Manifestations via construction of “The Other”… and they, in
such a Freudian fashion, have constructed such an “Otherness” for everyone else
with the simple word “your”.
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Your Truth</div>
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Your Opinion</div>
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Your God</div>
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Your Emotional Reality... (are all so adorable but I have Tenure and I hold the Megaphone)</div>
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Anyway, the Boomer Rulers forgot to send anyone of appropriate hegemonic
authority to the “Holy Crap The People We Invited in to Disrupt and Displace the Native Population
Killed the Cartoonists that Mocked the Native Traditions as Well as the
Traditions of the Newcomers, But the Native French Catholics Never Fight Back
Like This –oh Merde I really Hope the Vendee is at Mass and did not see the Holy
Trinity Cover of Charlie Hebdo” rally in Paris.<br />
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And there was some sniping among the Boomer Opinion Class about this oversight and some Boomer said, “I know! I have the answer! They may hate us and our policies but they love our culture. Send over James Taylor! Because it’s still NineteenSixtywhateverthefuck!” </div>
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I imagine that she or he also thought, “We should send Coke
and Levis too! Because when I was on my Rhodes Scholarship four decades ago,
they loved that stuff.”</div>
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James Taylor and an acoustic guitar. Unfuckingbelievable. You are a generation of children who now have nukes...</div>
Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-12803109704445556622014-07-29T11:53:00.000-07:002014-07-29T11:54:47.441-07:00Get the Shaft, Call it a Movement, Part II<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Shipping container apartment
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Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-63085166970038067212014-07-29T07:29:00.002-07:002014-07-29T07:31:25.680-07:00Long-Term Budget Outlook Deteriorates<h2 style="display: block;">
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has issued its <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45471" target="_blank">Long-Term Budget Outlook for 2014</a>.
Compared to previous reports, it projects a slightly worse outlook for
the nation’s fiscal situation, which results from the CBO’s new
assessment that the U.S. economy’s potential for stronger economic
growth in the future is lacking. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mygovcost.org/2014/07/17/long-term-budget-outlook-deteriorates/" target="_blank">link </a><br />
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Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-86472167179725792432014-04-25T10:22:00.002-07:002014-04-25T10:24:27.634-07:00Get the Shaft, Call It a MovementOn of the character traits of a Reactive generation is to begin the recovery from a Crisis through practical consideration of the situation and self-sacrifice for the coming generation.<br />
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Generation X, or the 13th Generation, was left holding the bag of the Baby Boomer's decadence -be it sexual decadence, economic decadence, cultural decadence (can we get another Beatles anniversary?), or entitlement decadence (yeah, we know Social Security won't be there for us).<br />
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The McMansion bubble is another unsustainable legacy of the Boomers. Isolation on a cul-de-sac in a house too big to be practical.<br />
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Of course there is a next generation reaction to this: <a href="http://charlotte.twcnews.com/content/news/around_carolina/706979/popularity-of-tiny-homes-on-the-rise" target="_blank">The Tiny House Movement.</a> It's practical, sustainable, and anti-materialist, though as a movement it fetishizes the poor economic situation inherited from Boomer leadership of the country. Whatever you gotta do to rationalize your situation I guess.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mitchell became intrigued by the
idea of a condensed living space five years ago after he lost his job, so he
decided to sponsor the Tiny House Conference in Charlotte in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mitchell has now found another way
to cater to the Tiny Movement crowd. He runs <a href="http://thetinylife.com/" target="new"><span style="color: blue;">thetinylife.com</span></a> website which
chronicles his efforts to build his own structure and provides tips and
resources for others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It's doable, you know, and
it's all about a lifestyle change and a shift in what's important in your
life," said Teal Brown, Wishbone Tiny Homes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plenty of others have discovered
tiny houses and there are an estimated 4,000 of them now in the U.S.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I looked at my budget and I
realized that housing was a lot of that cost and that's when I found tiny
houses," said Mitchell.</span></div>
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Mitchell
became intrigued by the idea of a condensed living space five years ago
after he lost his job, so he decided to sponsor the Tiny House
Conference in Charlotte in 2014.<br />
Mitchell has now found another way to cater to the Tiny Movement crowd. He runs <a href="http://thetinylife.com/" target="new">thetinylife.com</a> website which chronicles his efforts to build his own structure and provides tips and resources for others.<br />
"It's
doable, you know, and it's all about a lifestyle change and a shift in
what's important in your life," said Teal Brown, Wishbone Tiny Homes.<br />
Plenty of others have discovered tiny houses and there are an estimated 4,000 of them now in the U.S.<br />
"I looked at my budget and I realized that housing was a lot of that cost and that's when I found tiny houses," said Mitchell.<br />
- See more at:
http://charlotte.twcnews.com/content/news/around_carolina/706979/popularity-of-tiny-homes-on-the-rise#sthash.w09U6yRu.dpuf<br />
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Mitchell
became intrigued by the idea of a condensed living space five years ago
after he lost his job, so he decided to sponsor the Tiny House
Conference in Charlotte in 2014.<br />
Mitchell has now found another way to cater to the Tiny Movement crowd. He runs <a href="http://thetinylife.com/" target="new">thetinylife.com</a> website which chronicles his efforts to build his own structure and provides tips and resources for others.<br />
"It's
doable, you know, and it's all about a lifestyle change and a shift in
what's important in your life," said Teal Brown, Wishbone Tiny Homes.<br />
Plenty of others have discovered tiny houses and there are an estimated 4,000 of them now in the U.S.<br />
"I looked at my budget and I realized that housing was a lot of that cost and that's when I found tiny houses," said Mitchell.<br />
- See more at:
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<![endif]-->If the Boomers sought to throw off all previous constraints of civilizational habits and morals and "Start from Zero", as Tom Wolfe documents, the Xers will reboot on their own in a practical way, in order to maintain some sort of civilizational continuity.<br />
<br />
Tom Wolfe on <i>The Start From Zero</i>, and anticipating what is happening now- <i>The Great Relearning</i>:<br />
<blockquote>
In 1968, in San Francisco, I came across a curious
footnote to the hippie movement. At the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic,
there were doctors treating diseases no living doctor had ever
encountered before, diseases that had disappeared so long ago they had
never even picked up Latin names, diseases such as the mange, the
grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the scroff, the rot. And how
was it that they now returned? It had to do with the fact that thousands
of young men and women had migrated to San Francisco to live communally
in what I think history will record as one of the most extraordinary
religious fevers of all time.<br />
The hippies sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and
restraints of the past and start from zero. At one point, the novelist
Ken Kesey, leader of a commune called the Merry Pranksters, organized a
pilgrimage to Stonehenge with the idea of returning to Anglo-Saxon’s
point zero, which he figured was Stonehenge, and heading out all over
again to do it better. Among the codes and restraints that people in the
communes swept aside–quite purposely–were those that said you shouldn’t
use other people’s toothbrushes or sleep on other people’s mattresses
without changing the sheets, or as was more likely, without using any
sheets at all, or that you and five other people shouldn’t drink from
the same bottle of Shasta or take tokes from the same cigarette. And
now, in 1968, they were relearning…the laws of hygiene…by getting the
mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the scroff, the
rot.<br />
This process, namely the relearning–following a Promethean and
unprecedented start from zero–seems to me to be the leitmotif of the
twenty-first century in America.<i></i></blockquote>
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<br />Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-87304407684020688562013-09-18T07:11:00.000-07:002013-09-18T09:26:13.974-07:00Vladimir Putin and the Devastation of the Baby BoomersSeeking to avoid <i>devastation</i>, like that of World War II, is how Vladimir Putin opens his op ed to the U.S. and its political leaders.<br />
<blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Recent
events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the
American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at
a time of insufficient communication between our societies.<br />
<br />
Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood
against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once,
and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international
organization — the United Nations — was then established to prevent such
devastation from ever happening again.</blockquote>
</blockquote>
Devastation. The word comes from the Latin verb, <i>devastare</i> which means <i>to lay waste</i>, which is derived from the Latin adjective <i>vastus</i> –<i>empty, desolate</i>.<br />
<br />
Putin knows devastation.<br />
<br />
Putin
was born in 1952, 7 years after the end of World War II, a war
which saw his country and his family devastated. In Russia almost 13%
of the population perished during the war, with over 7 million civilian
deaths and nearly that many military deaths. More Russian civilians
died in WWII than soldiers. All told almost 14 million Russians
perished. These are only Russian numbers, not the whole Soviet Union.
In contrast the United States lost roughly 400,000 soldiers and 1,700
civilians, altogether less than one percent of the total population.<br />
<br />
The
rolling tanks, the aerial bombardments, and the brutal warfare along
the Eastern Front left Russia devastated economically as well: a
quarter of its capital resources were destroyed and agricultural output
was lower than it had been in the 1920s. Add the psychotic leadership
of Stalin, who killed an estimated 20 million Soviet citizens, and the
economic disaster of Communism to the destruction of WWII and you have a land made empty, desolate.<br />
<br />
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of Putin’s older brothers had died; the oldest, a few months after he
was born in the 1930s, the other, of diphtheria during the Siege of
Leningrad. More people died in the Siege of Leningrad than all U.K. and U.S. losses combined for the entire war.<br />
<br />
Like his Baby Boomer peers in the United States, born to the
G.I. Generation after the Great Depression and WWII, we can imagine
that young Vladimir was a source of hope for his parents in the
devastated emptiness in which war and death had left their family.<br />
<br />
Unlike
post war Russia, the post war America into which the Boomers were born
was a cornucopia. Unlike the rest of the industrialized world, the
United States had not been bombed into rubble. We were the exception.
We had no industrial competition. Everyone in the world bought our
stuff. They had no other choice. That was a
unique moment in history. As the <a data-mce-href="http://www.economist.com/node/21563725" href="http://www.economist.com/node/21563725">Economist</a> writes:<br />
<blockquote>
These
boomers have lived a charmed life, easily topping previous generations
in income earned at every age. The sheer heft of the generation created a
demographic dividend: a rise in labour supply, reinforced by a surge in
the number of working women. Social change favoured it too. Households
became smaller, populated with more earners and fewer children. And
boomers enjoyed the distinction of being among the best-educated of
American generations at a time when the return on education was soaring.<br />
Yet
these gains were one-offs. Retirements will reverse the earlier
labour-force surge, and younger generations cannot benefit from more
women working… In short, boomer income growth relied on a number of
one-off gains.</blockquote>
To take this historically unique situation and economic anomaly, and to expand it to be a general assumption about national exceptionalism would seem to be a tragic mistake of epic proportions.<br />
<br />
Our Baby Boomer political leaders have
never seen the resulting devastation of armies traversing our borders and laying waste to
our territory. They grew up as well-cared-for children in the
brand new, burgeoning suburbs, at a time of unprecedented optimism and
wealth. It was an exceptional time in history. The strength and wealth
of the nation were so secure that they were able to “tune in, turn on
and drop out”, in that fit of Daddy-anger that was the late 1960s.<br />
<br />
But
you can’t really blame them for taking everything for granted. The
suburbs had no roots, the new middle class corporate jobs meant GI dad
moved the family for work, a few years in one city, a few in another.
There was material wealth to be sure, but the Boomers were devastated in
their own way, uprooted from their ethnic enclaves in the northern
cities (if Catholic) and from their Midwestern cities, towns, and family
farms (if Protestant), devastated psychically in the wasteland of
Levittown and cul de sacs. In fact Baby Boomers now have the highest
suicide rate of any generation. The Me Generation is an alienated
generation. It was an exceptional mirage, material wealth masking
spiritual devastation.<br />
<br />
Tom Wolfe, himself of the Silent Generation
sandwiched between the GIs and the Boomers, described the exceptional
nature of Boomer self-absorption as having discarded the “age-old belief
in serial immortality.”<br />
<blockquote>
The husband and wife who
sacrifice their own ambitions and their material assets in order to
provide a ‘better future’ for their children … the soldier who risks his
life or perhaps consciously sacrifices it, in battle … the man who
devotes his life to some struggle for ‘his people’ that cannot possibly
be won in his lifetime … people (or most of them) who buy life insurance
or leave wills … are people who conceive of themselves, however
unconsciously, as part of a great biological stream. Just as something
of their ancestors lives on in them, so will something of them live on
in their children … or in their people, their race, their community –
for childless people, too, conduct their lives and try to arrange their
postmortem affairs with concern for how the great stream is going to
flow on. Most people, historically, have <i>not</i> lived their lives as
if thinking, ‘I have only one life to live.’ Instead, they have lived
as if they are living their ancestors’ lives and their offsprings’ lives
and perhaps their neighbors’ lives as well. They have seen themselves
as inseparable from the great tide of chromosomes of which they are
created and which they pass on. The mere fact that you were only going
to be here a short time and would be dead soon enough did not give you
the license to try to climb out of the stream and change the natural
order of things. The Chinese, in ancestor worship, have literally
worshipped the great tide itself, and not any god or gods. For anyone to
renounce the notion of serial immortality, in the West or the East, has
been to defy what seems like a law of nature.</blockquote>
The Boomer entitles himself to exemption from this legacy.<br />
<br />
Since
their transition into political power with the election of Bill Clinton
in 1992 and the accession of Newt Gingrich as House Speaker in 1994,
Boomers have proceeded to spend the <i>principal </i>of that
exceptional material and economic endowment, so confident in themselves
and the sheltered world they grew up in, and so confident in the America
built and made safe by their fathers whom they revolted against, that
they seek to transform all the world into clones of post war America through mass marketed "culture", porn, or force of arms: “Democracy, Whisky, and Sexy!” as they
said in Najaf, Iraq.<br />
<br />
And if not that transformative violence, the
Boomer political class desires at least to invite all the dreamers here,
knowing in their hearts, of course, that everyone in the world dreams
to get that online degree and work in a cubicle to pay for the Boomers’
Social Security, Medicare and the War on Terror.<br />
<br />
Are the Boomers on an extended
ballistic tantrum? A cruise-missile hissy fit? Are they just acting
out? They have proceeded to lay waste to the foundations of their
inheritance, graduating from waging ideological wars on the institutions
that raised them, to waging whimsical wars abroad, costing billions,
from Clinton through Bush and Obama. As Baby Boomer Chris Hedges writes, "<i>War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning</i>."<br />
<br />
They
have indebted their children and grandchildren with these wars of
theirs, for some notional, Platonic ghost of Democracy, which brings
with it market-opening opportunities for <i>Whisky!</i> and <i>Sex!</i> to these
bedraggled traditional peoples who only know the ways of their ancestors
and not our enlightened, modern ways, not for any real national
threat, but spuriously, based upon lies and/or to cover up lies.<br />
<br />
Putin knows about
the wasteland left by Great Patriotic Wars, and knows about the
decades of U.S. sponsored jihad on his country’s southern borders, and the unintended consequences and blowback of such sponsorship and intervention. (see: <a href="http://www.thebostonliberal.com/the-boston-marathon-bombing-was-blowback-from-us-foreign-policy-20770/" target="_blank">Boston Marathon Bombing</a>) <br />
<br />
Putin’s Mother Russia was not just devastated
economically, it was devastated morally and spiritually after the
war, annihilating its own future with some of the highest abortion rates
in the developed world through the 1990s, with alcoholism, and other social pathologies of
devastating effect on their people’s ability to continue as a people <i>Rus.</i><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -Vernon Law, baseball player, Silent Generation</blockquote>
Russia
in general and Putin in particular have experienced the test of war and devastation, learned
the lessons. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/07/25/dying-russias-birth-rate-is-now-higher-than-the-united-states/" target="_blank">Recently, Russian birthrates surpassed those of the US</a>. As
Tom Wolfe noted, this is an indication of belief in a future and a
sense of continuity for themselves as a people and as a civilization.
This practical politician does not want devastation again.<br />
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<br />
Having
experienced the devastation of war across his country’s borders and in
his own family, Mr. Putin finishes his op ed using the crusading,
religious terminology of the American Baby Boomer political class,
teleological “democracy”, while echoing the Declaration of
Independence.<br />
<blockquote>
There are big countries and small
countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and
those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too.
We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must
not forget that God created us equal.</blockquote>
America is exceptional to us because it is ours, not because of the historical,
economic anomaly of the post war years, not because it stands astride
the world as a Colossus.<br />
<br />
Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, Mexicans, Somalis, Vietnamese, etc. are not deformed Americans waiting to be fully Americanized. They are allowed to love their countries too, to think that their country is exceptional because it is theirs, whose blessings they hope to pass on to their posterity.<br />
<br />
The
devastation of the war and the devastation of Communism led to a
devastation of the soul of that great people and their civilization, a
civilization that is literally being born again.<br />
<br />
The spiritual
devastation of the Baby Boomers, their antiseptic yet materially rich
upbringing in suburban alienation, has resulted in the material
devastation of whomever gets in the way of their tantrums –be it the
civic institutions they inherited, or the indigenous cultures of small
countries who rub them the wrong way.<br />
<br />
Baby Boomers took for granted the material wealth and security in which they were raised. They attacked the very civilization and institutions that had made them the best-raised and most educated generation of children in the history of the world to that point. They exempted themselves from their legacy and borrowed against their posterity.<br />
<br />
Tom Wolfe recognized the unintended consequences for the Boomers' rejection of civilizational norms in the 1960s:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In 1968, in San Francisco, I came across a curious footnote to the
hippie movement. At the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, there were doctors
treating diseases no living doctor had ever encountered before, diseases
that had disappeared so long ago they had never even picked up Latin
names, diseases such as the mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the
thrush, the scroff, the rot. And how was it that they now returned? It
had to do with the fact that thousands of young men and women had
migrated to San Francisco to live communally in what I think history
will record as one of the most extraordinary religious fevers of all
time. <br />
The hippies sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and
restraints of the past and start from zero. At one point, the novelist
Ken Kesey, leader of a commune called the Merry Pranksters, organized a
pilgrimage to Stonehenge with the idea of returning to Anglo-Saxon’s
point zero, which he figured was Stonehenge, and heading out all over
again to do it better. Among the codes and restraints that people in the
communes swept aside--quite purposely--were those that said you
shouldn’t use other people’s toothbrushes or sleep on other people’s
mattresses without changing the sheets, or as was more likely, without
using any sheets at all, or that you and five other people shouldn’t
drink from the same bottle of Shasta or take tokes from the same
cigarette. And now, in 1968, they were relearning…the laws of hygiene…by
getting the mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the
scroff, the rot.<br />
This process, namely the relearning--following a Promethean and
unprecedented start from zero--seems to me to be the leitmotif of the
twenty-first century in America. -from <i>Hooking Up</i></blockquote>
The whimsical way in which
Boomers go to war suggests a need for a great relearning of the rules of civilization. But it also suggests "war as psychotherapy" and is reminiscent of the “World War as an Afterthought” theme in
the background of Ray Bradbury’s <i>Fahrenheit 451</i>, when a sick and
decadent nation continually goes to war abroad while waging a domestic
war on the minds of its pharmacologically pacified citizens, and on
culture itself: <br />
<br />
[Montag has just come home to find his interactive-television addicted wife overdosed on sleeping pills.]<br />
<blockquote>
The
object he had sent tumbling with his foot now glinted under the edge of
his own bed. The small crystal bottle of sleeping-tablets which earlier
today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped
and empty in the light of the tiny flare.<br />
As he stood there the
sky over the house screamed. There was a tremendous ripping sound as if
two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the
seam. Montag was cut in half. He felt his chest chopped down and split
apart. The jet-bombs going over, going over, going over, one two, one
two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them, one and one and
one and another and another and another, did all the screaming for him.
He opened his own mouth and let their shriek come down and out between
his bared teeth. The house shook.</blockquote>
The Boomer
devastation, because it is wholly spiritual, is worse than the material and economic devastation that
informed Putin's childhood, which probably made him all the more
practical and ruthless. <br />
<br />
Boomer devastation is in their psyche, the pain of their desolation screams out in cruise-missiles and F-16s, pissing away the material wealth that they inherited by bombing deserts.Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-84759482847911396802013-09-09T12:46:00.005-07:002013-09-09T12:46:51.435-07:00Millennials Have Been At War For Their Entire Adult Lives<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Since I was 14-years old, the United States of America has been at war.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr">
That’s roughly triple the time we spent in World War II and
three years longer than it took us to win our independence. And today,
on the same day President Obama commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Dr.
Martin Luther King’s speech holding up non-violence as an ideal, his
administration prepares to extend our time at war once again, this time
in Syria.</div>
<div dir="ltr">
But when is enough enough?</div>
</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/61347/millennials-have-been-at-war-for-their-entire-adult-lives-when-is-enough-enough" target="_blank">Read More </a>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-86204116304747355292013-09-09T12:44:00.000-07:002013-09-09T12:44:12.643-07:00America’s Jobless GenerationConsider the bleak prospects of young people entering the workforce
today: the portion of people aged twenty to twenty-four who have jobs
has fallen from 72.2 percent in 2000 to just 61.5 percent. Meanwhile, if
we adjust for inflation, the median earnings of men between the ages of
sixteen and twenty-four working full-time has fallen by nearly 30
percent since 1973. For women, the median has fallen by 17 percent. As
Andy Sum, an economist at Northeastern University who has studied youth
unemployment for many years, has <a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/news/news_items/summer2013/sum-youth-unemployment_7-31-13.html">shown</a>,
if you are out of work or underemployed during those initial years of
adulthood, chances are far higher you will be unemployed, poor, or
dependent on welfare later on.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/sep/03/americas-jobless-generation/" target="_blank">Read More</a>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-23249726414790249412013-07-12T07:25:00.001-07:002013-07-12T07:25:27.807-07:00Sponging Boomers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The website <a href="http://www.thingsboomerslike.com/" target="_blank">Things Boomers Like</a> has a great discussion of an article in The Economist called <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21563725" target="_blank">Sponging Boomers</a>.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The bone-dry weekly news magazine The Economist - mostly read by rich,
old guys or sickly patients in doctors' waiting rooms - is not the
first place you'd expect to find an article decrying the adverse
economic affects of baby-boomer sponging and rent-seeking. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But
in wielding its neo-liberal blowtorch without fear or favour, the
Economist has shown that it's not afraid to speak truth to Boomer power,
even when that's essentially its own readership.</blockquote>
<br />Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-2301125138669304172013-07-12T07:12:00.000-07:002013-07-12T07:12:03.668-07:00Baby Boomers Will Be the Last to Get Social Security<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[5pi7m].[1][4][1]{comment10151634508164733_8992809}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[5pi7m].[1][4][1]{comment10151634508164733_8992809}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5pi7m].[1][4][1]{comment10151634508164733_8992809}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">From the Peter G Peterson Foundation: </span></span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[5pi7m].[1][4][1]{comment10151634508164733_8992809}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[5pi7m].[1][4][1]{comment10151634508164733_8992809}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[5pi7m].[1][4][1]{comment10151634508164733_8992809}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">According
to the latest government estimates, Social Security has begun a period
of permanent cash-flow deficits, paying out more in annual benefits than
it brings in through taxes. Absent reform, Social Security will run out
of authority to pay full scheduled benefits after 2033. At that time,
projections by the Social Security actuary indicate that benefits will
have to be cut by about 23 percent if laws are not changed. Such large
cuts could be reduced if policymakers took action in advance by phasing
in modest tax increases, benefit cuts, or both.</span></span></span></blockquote>
The last Boomers will turn 65 in 2025. The bulk of Generation X, or the 13th Generation, will be left holding the bag. Though this is typical in the generational cycle -the Lost Generation took serious hits economically to ensure that the younger GI generation was better off through the crises of the Depression and WWII.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0029_social-security-deficits-cash" target="_blank">link</a><br />Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-1693539696336888622013-07-10T09:46:00.001-07:002013-07-10T09:50:40.623-07:00Two Families: Trouble for Millenial Males<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[0]">The
large middle class was built in the post WWII period, with returning GIs heading up families. Some used the GI bill to get college degrees, a lot didn't, but the union maufacturing jobs were enough to enter the middle class.</span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[0]">Then all the baby boomers were supposed to go
to college and get JDs and MBAs and MDs and everyone would be upper
middle class. </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[0]">Gen X kids were all suppo</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0].[0]">sed
to go to college, program all day, and build internet companies. Everyone would be millionaires... there was always flipping houses!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[rgju].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0].[0]">Millenials are supposed to start
social media empires and cute non-profits with 5K races and hip, ironic mustache parties
as fundraising tools, thus signalling the end of history and only the
need to export this cultural utopia of ennui abroad in some sort of
market-opening, nation-building endeavor... </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0].[0]">This program does not go far enough to analyze the fundamental
economic problems of our usurious and exploitative crony system, nor at
the fraying civic fabric that, were it still strong, would hold people together when the
state-sponsored safety nets fail... </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3]"><span data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2o802].[1][4][1]{comment10151536584447379_26648834}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[3].[0].[0]">The Millenial males in this story are in big trouble.</span></span></span></span></span>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-26765516110351012122013-07-02T17:57:00.003-07:002013-07-04T08:24:41.733-07:00The Intergenerational Con GameBill Frezza writes in Forbes:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The intergenerational con game whereby Baby Boomers stick the Millennial
Generation with trillions in debt through our gorging on entitlements
is about to face its greatest challenge. Will we be able to talk healthy
young Americans into buying medical insurance that <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/20/ready-set-panic-more-than-a-quarter-of-young-people-dont-think-the-price-of-health-insurance-is-worth-it/">costs seven times</a> what it would in a free market in order to subsidize our increasingly expensive health care? Or will we have to sic <a href="http://www.galen.org/2013/46-new-irs-powers-to-enforce-obamacare/">IRS enforcers</a>
on them for selfishly taking advantage of the law’s pre-existing
condition protections to get care at someone else’s expense in case of
serious illness?<br />
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It’s a tough sell, but take heart, fellow Boomers. We’ve been preparing
our children for community servitude for years. Why else did we feed
them a steady diet of social consciousness, while preaching that <i>it takes a village </i>from the day we dumped them in daycare? Now, it’s time for them to pay up.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2013/07/02/the-great-obamacare-intergenerational-swindle/" target="_blank"> Read the rest </a>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-46883317038560620722012-08-07T21:04:00.003-07:002012-08-07T21:09:30.863-07:00The Wrestler<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Baby Boomer line of the week: "I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I'm alone... I just don't want you to hate me." -The Wrestler</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">No, it's cool, a life of ideological narcissism at the expense of the next generation, no prob... oh, it's all crashing and all that you care about is that we don't hate you? not, "you're sorry" or "oops" even... No wonder the boomer press loved the movie... generational cop out... And then, after his one attempt to grow up is met with resistance: back to drugs, feeling good, living in the moment and leaving the next generation to deal with it... Awesome </span>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-87516329604015112632012-08-07T21:04:00.001-07:002012-08-07T21:04:07.480-07:00Debt Slavery: Forward<span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">According to government data, compiled by the Treasury Department at the request of SmartMoney.com, the federal government is withholding money from a rapidly growing number of Social Security recipients who have fallen behind on federal student loans. </span>
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<a href="http://www.smartmoney.com/borrow/student-loans/grandmas-new-financial-problem-college-debt-1344292084111/">http://www.smartmoney.com/borrow/student-loans/grandmas-new-financial-problem-college-debt-1344292084111/</a>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-75987168580774240622012-01-15T21:29:00.000-08:002013-07-02T18:01:45.172-07:00Gen X critiques the MillenialsThis Saturday Night Live skit is a great Dig at Millenial vices by some Gen Xers<br />
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<a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/you-can-do-anything/n13355/#.UdN3iwwY76I.blogger">Saturday Night Live: You Can Do Anything</a><br />
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The Millenials have another vice -herd mentality, which can be dangerous with a demagogue in politics...<br />
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SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. <br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" target="_blank"><br /></a>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Rise of the New Groupthink</span></a></div>
<br />Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-83532036787009526772012-01-12T19:53:00.000-08:002012-01-12T19:53:50.553-08:00Generational WarWorking on a longer piece about the Silent Generation's role in all of this -they are likely to be the only generation in US history without a President, being sandwiched between the huge egos of the GI's and the Boomers... but thought this was an interesting, blunt statement:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"> Older voters, for obvious reasons, don't really care that the country's finances are unsustainable (they'll be dead by the time it matters). Older voters also have a big personal stake in things staying pretty much the same (they're now transitioning from paying for government to getting paid <em>by</em> government).<br />
Younger voters, meanwhile, don't like the fact that the country they will soon inherit is charging headlong toward a cliff. They also don't like the super-high unemployment rate, record-high student-loan debt, and the fact that the American dream that their parents enjoyed seems to be evaporating.<br />
In other words, what Ron Paul is now tapping into is a developing war between generations, one that will only get more intense in the coming decades.<br />
Half of voters under 30 just just voted for Ron Paul. <em>Half.</em><br />
The Washington establishment (and America) dismisses that at their peril.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
Read more: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/young-voters-ron-paul-2012-1#ixzz1jJ56pW7R" style="color: #003399;">http://www.businessinsider.com/young-voters-ron-paul-2012-1#ixzz1jJ56pW7R</a></div>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-80741648408899467422012-01-09T22:09:00.000-08:002012-01-10T07:30:25.127-08:00Newt Gingrich and Boomers' Daddy Complex<div class="MsoNormal">Newt Gingrich’s remarks at a New Hampshire debate crystallized something about baby-boomers, more specifically, activist baby-boomers. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Newt said, “My father was in fact serving in Vietnam in the Me-Kong delta at the time he (Congressman Paul) is referring to. I think I have a pretty good idea of what it’s like as a family to worry about your family getting killed.”</div><div class="MsoNormal">This is from an ideologically activist baby-boomer. His activism is of the “Right”. It is militaristic, full of braggadocio about United States military power and the use of force. At a previous foreign policy debate he mentioned that his father was a life-long infantryman which caused Newt to realize that National Security was so important that he should… study it. So he got a PhD and was in graduate school during the Vietnam War, which his sort described at the time as a crusade against Communism, a vital National Security issue I would imagine.</div><div class="MsoNormal">What makes all of this exemplary of baby boomer activism, which we usually associate with the left (for example the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Berkeley protestors, etc.) is the underlying assumption that the GI Generation will always be there. Newt’s Dad will be fighting the Commies so he can study policy. Forever. Conversely, on the left, the economic engines (GM, HP, IBM) and civilizational pillars (marriage, civil liberties, work) will always be there but we can liberate our sexual desires among this economic plenty and seek a more just allocation of the economic fruits and the pleasures it can buy. </div><div class="MsoNormal">The sort of left of the baby boomers, progressives, are trying to make the world one big pre-school playground where everything is equal and fair, and everyone is a great artist and really good at playing with sand… literally retarding any progression at all… and then the sort of right wing opposition to them, self-labeled conservatives, who have little awareness of anything cultural or essential that they want to conserve, just want to make sure that everyone doesn’t sin. So they pass laws outlawing sin, imagining that this will make everyone go to some sort of bland bourgeois heaven, a cul de sac in the clouds that backs onto an absolutely divine golf course. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Because they both assume that what their daddies built will endure to under gird and fund their a priori ideological missions, both are intellectually static, and stasis is death.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The GI generation is almost completely gone and the institutions and prosperity they built are crumbling. Will any Boomer grow up and lead the rebuilding? </div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Probably not, they are so obsessed with their fathers’ legacies –either in awe of or hateful of them, that they are currently paralyzed in infantile inaction –just look and the Super Committee.</span>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-36788933383313985812012-01-09T21:14:00.000-08:002012-01-09T21:14:15.500-08:00Mortgaging the Kids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/Li0no7O9zmE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Magister 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<p class="MsoNormal">He destroyed my shelf.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But within minutes, when my back was turned, his son had replaced the fine, hundred year-old, hardwood shelf, with a particle board shelf, sloppily painted and not level.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He presented me with a bill for $10 million.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Then the carpenter found other problems in my house: first a dirty window.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He hammered it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I protested that I did not need any more of his help.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He accused me of not loving my house enough and questioned whether I had the right even to live there.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He did not like the paint in my son’s room.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He hammered the walls until they came down.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">This continued until my house was destroyed despite my protests.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He hired his cocaine-addicted fraternity brother to redesign my house for repair and presented me with a bill.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He said that if I did not pay he would also repair my car.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">He said he did not like the look on my face and approached me with his hammer.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">As he proceeded to repair my face with his hammer I wondered how this parasite had gotten into my home, how anyone this crude could have been so highly recommended as my only choice.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I scolded myself for listening to the experts and for not hiring good ole Ron down the street.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">At that point my wife intervened and exercised her second amendment rights, only wounding him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I summoned all of my remaining strength and threw the bums out.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Soon after we were indefinitely detained…</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Our house was given over to refugees from a previous carpentry campaign and one child was apprenticed to the carpenter, while the other child was sent off to work, to pay off the bills of our carpenter and his associates.</p>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-12870054812469407512010-03-16T10:45:00.000-07:002010-03-16T10:51:53.951-07:00New Foundations?A Generation X Representative is the only one with a plan to avoid the enslavement of us and our descendants from the entitlements of the G.I.s and the Boomers. A telling quote:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); line-height: 21px; "><blockquote>Ryan comes from a family of industrial earth-movers—the business, now run by his cousins, was started by his grandfather, and he helped out as a kid. They clear away obstructions so new foundations can be laid.</blockquote>Wait, there's more:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); line-height: 21px; "><blockquote>According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which produces Congress's official projections about the long-term fiscal effects of legislation, Ryan's <a class="external-link" href="http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/plan/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Roadmap for America’s Future</a> would zero out the deficit, balance the budget by 2063, and reduce Medicare's expected share of the economy in 2080 from a projected 14.3 percent of GDP to a mere 4 percent. The Roadmap also calls for a substantial simplification of the tax code and a replacement of the corporate income tax with an 8.5 percent business <a class="external-link" href="http://www.allbusiness.com/glossaries/consumption-tax/4950009-1.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">consumption tax</a>. CBO's projections are inherently uncertain—even the most competent economic forecasters can only guess at how the world will change over 50-plus years. But the result is, at the very least, a compelling conservative vision of the country's fiscal future.</blockquote>Guess what? The Leadership of neither party is interested...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); line-height: 21px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); line-height: 21px; ">Here's the <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/234362/page/1">Newsweek article</a>:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">Here's the <a href="http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/plan/">Plan</a>:</span></span></div><div><br /></div>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-42714018712315272042010-03-03T22:26:00.000-08:002010-03-03T22:29:39.019-08:00Birthright Sold<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 24px; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:19px;">"Plato reminds us that democracy follows plutocracy as its antithesis when the younger generation realizes that their elders have sold their birthright."</span>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-12050019414076991192010-03-01T18:14:00.000-08:002010-03-01T18:17:11.889-08:00No More Intergenerational Theft!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">"I admire the courage of the junior senator from Kentucky," he said. "Somebody has to stand up finally and say, 'No more inter-generational theft!'"</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">And with that, the Senate adjourned for the weekend.</p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/jim-bunning-repeatedly-bl_n_477910.html</a></p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; "><br /></p><p style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; ">Agree with the sentiment, but it's like emptying the ocean with a bucket</p></span>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-39863187932921032542010-02-19T21:38:00.000-08:002010-02-20T21:31:37.164-08:00Indications of the Fourth Turning<blockquote>"These kids are so over-scheduled and tired"</blockquote><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jl3aJYY4aKU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jl3aJYY4aKU&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.racetonowhere.com/">The Race to Nowhere</a> is an important indication of a major cultural and societal shift that is taking place. Generational experts Strauss and Howe called it the <a href="http://www.fourthturning.com/">Fourth Turning</a> and, from the Financial Crisis of 2008 to the election of the first self-consciously styled "Post-Boomer" president in that same year, the secular crisis of generational realignment they predicted in the 1990s seems to be taking place. In discussing this generational shift Howe has this to say:<div><blockquote>"We think that generations move history along and prevent society from suffering too long under the excesses of any particular generation."</blockquote><div><div>What is interesting about <i>The Race to Nowhere</i> is it focus on <b><i>meaning</i></b>, especially over a decade after the Boomers <i>par excellence</i>, the Clintons, sought to imbue us with the <b><i>Politics of Meaning</i></b>. Because this time Generation X is seeking to articulate the meaning. The film is also a sign of potential generational cooperation. </div><div><br /></div><div>This film indicates that adults, especially Gen Xers, are reacting to the excesses of how the Millennials have been raised, while at the same time listening to some of the idealism of the Boomers, and attempting to bring some practical reality and implementation to Boomer ideals. </div><div><br /></div><div>The hyper-scheduled herd of Millennials that the Baby Boomers first began raising and planning for in the 80s, with their Baby-on-Board signs and vicarious goal-setting, are developing some ominous habits of shallowness and depression. As Strauss and Howe indicate in their book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Millennials-Rising-Next-Great-Generation/dp/0375707190">The Millennials Rising</a>, the great Civic potential of the Millennials can develop either virtuously -in a "let's all pitch in and solve problems together" kind of way, or they can develop the vices of the herd, steamrolling all in their path so that everyone gets the trophy to which they have been told they are entitled.</div><div><br /></div><div>The last time this generational alignment happened in this country, when the newest <i>Artist</i> generation was age 6 and under, was 1931. In that year, unemployment rose over 16% two years after the crash of 1929 and many auto-manufacturers went out of business; roughly 2500 banks went out of business. President Hoover said in March that "prosperity is just around the corner.</div><div></div><div><div><blockquote>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss_and_Howe">Artists</a> are, "subtle, indecisive, emotional and compromising, often having to deal with feelings of repression and inner conflict. They grow up as the over-protected children of a Crisis, come of age as the sensitive young adults of a High, rebel as indecisive midlife leaders during an Awakening, and become the empathic elders of an Unraveling. The Silent Generation is an example of an Artist generation. The Homeland Generation is expected to emerge as the next generation of this example."</blockquote></div><div>We can see the similarities in the times, and the concern and care for the next generation. As Howe says: </div><blockquote><div>This generation will have no memory of anything before the financial meltdown of 2008 and the events that are about to unfold in America. If our research is correct, this generation’s childhood will be a time of urgency and rapid historical change. Unlike the Millennials, who will remember childhood during the good times of 1980s and ’90s, the Homelanders will recall their childhood as a time of national crisis. </div><div></div></blockquote><div>In a time of crisis, how do we change a road to nowhere, into a road to somewhere. And how can we ensure that somewhere is not anywhere?</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729063945193355694.post-12157639382677824112008-02-06T19:34:00.000-08:002008-02-06T19:36:10.294-08:00In the Coming Chaos Gen Xers Will ShineThe <a href="http://bankimplode.com/">Bank Implode-O-Meter</a>Magister Ludihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262350715424590269noreply@blogger.com0