The United States had moved forward by leaps and bounds by the time the twentieth century rolled around. They had a high standard of living and great productivity, which allowed them to engage in philanthropy like never before. But ease always makes a society apathetic and gives them reason to disavow God; I discussed this in my previous post. Apathy crept in to the hearts of the American people and before they knew what had hit them, Marxism, Darwinism, and Freudian psychology had taken over the education system with the help of men like John Dewey, who is now considered the Father of Progressive Education. All these men men were the grandparents and great grandparents of the boomers.
It’s important to understand this, especially considering the hate the boomer generation is getting of late. The boomers did not come out of a vacuum; they were a product of indoctrination and societal forces their parents chose to ignore. If there’s one characteristic that I would attach to the silent generation, it’s their distaste for discussing politics and religion. These were by and large forbidden topics to them. When the most important subjects aren’t allowed to be broached in the home, what do you think is going to happen? The younger generation is going to be disproportionately influenced by mandatory public education.
Progressivism plus wealth and opportunity made the boomers, essentially, spoiled children. Spoiled children are the devil’s playthings. They demanded evil, and their elders gave it to them. What, do you actually think the Supreme Court justices that brought in national legal abortion were boomers? The boomers were far too young at that point. The author of the majority opinion on Roe v Wade, Harry Blackmun, was born in 1908. That would make him a precursor to even the silent generation — whatever that’s called. We didn’t used to fix twenty-year generational cohorts with names like we do now. Blackmun, unsurprisingly, was appointed by a Republican president and became, again unsurprisingly, one of the most liberal justices in the Court. No-fault divorce was brought in a bit differently; it happened state by state and was the effort of multiple generations, unfortunately. But egads did the boomers ever love it — because they were spoiled children who thought life was about being happy and pursuing their dreams.
I’m not giving the boomers an out but providing context for why they became a massively bad influence on this country. You might give the previous generations excuses, though, because they lived through World Wars I and II as well as the Great Depression and were traumatized enough that they might have wanted to ignore the writing on the wall (or the writing on their children’s school chalkboards). And they wanted a way forward, which was why they bought into Roosevelt-era progressivism. There was also a great deal of propaganda from authors such as the great American novelist I despise so much, John Steinbeck.
Propaganda, propaganda everywhere. Our current propaganda is so bad that it rivals Stalinist Russia. We simply lack the gulags and mass starvation — but, wait, there’s still time! The level of progressive thought currently in our nation did not come about simply due to the boomer generation, as much as gen Xers want to hate them. It was a much longer process brought to us by Satan’s minions over the course of almost two centuries.
And let’s be honest; their music wasn’t that bad, either. At least they played real instruments and didn’t snap their rhythms to a dull grid of bleary white noise like most of the music made today. Of course, those grids didn’t exist for them. Maybe, if they’re as evil as my generation believes, they would have….?
Jill Domschot 