That's what I've been saying all along. Little neoprog hippies grow up to become neoliberal sellouts. It's been happening since the CIA invented them back in the 1960s!
(JFK delivered 'the package' but they still offed him! Gotta watch your step around the MIC Dragon! Very fickle! One minute you got it purring; the next you’re a crispy critter!)
Establishment universities bleed political activists dry filling their heads with nonsense and unleashing them onto the world as the worst enemies to their own causes. (You can attract more flies with honey than an SJW sour puss!)
They fail spectacularly. Then get Big City Liberal jobs and pat themselves on the back for how virtuous they were in their idealistic youth.
(Those People of Color in our inner-city ghettos can learn to live on a little less infrastructure, health and education. Need some high-end renos for the up-state cottage! – Their living standards becoming progressively worse decade after decade since Elvis's 1968 song "In the Ghetto." – Let's make the word "ghetto" racist!)
In all my years studying politics and the human condition I have come to one undeniable conclusion: White people be crazy!
(Welcome to your Carlsberg years! Welcome to the Machine.)
When talk replaces action, no one is ahead, Anon. I have the same concerns about social media. Does sharing something on FB or Twitter constitute action, or is a substitute for it?
The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.
The revolution will not be televised. [The revolution is of the mind.]
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will be [social-media] live.
The people first need to be informed before they can figure out the kinds of actions that need to be taken. There needs to be a lot more rational debate.
The Grand Generation handled way worse than we got, went through so much more than people these days could imagine. People are so infantilized these days. Way up on their high moral horses with absolutely nothing good to show for it.
Those who learn from history can forge a dependable bridge into a prosperous, sustainable future. (Easy peasy. Tried-and-true. It's all been done before.)
Those who can't eventually destroy themselves in their own muck and filth and flush themselves down the toilet in the process. (The Wrath of God waiting on the other side to mock, shame and condemn them, tearing them to pieces with their own fierce judgments.)
"The Grand Generation handled way worse than we got, went through so much more than people these days could imagine. People are so infantilized these days. Way up on their high moral horses with absolutely nothing good to show for it."
I heard part of an interview yesterday with Harry Smith, a man who has lived for almost 100 years, Anon. His description of the early travails of his impoverished upbringing puts your comment above into stark relief. Here is the link: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-21-2017-1.4410676/senior-podcaster-harry-leslie-smith-says-he-ll-drop-dead-before-he-stops-fighting-for-equality-1.4410696
That was fun, Lorne. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed it, Mound.
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ReplyDeleteThat's what I've been saying all along. Little neoprog hippies grow up to become neoliberal sellouts. It's been happening since the CIA invented them back in the 1960s!
(JFK delivered 'the package' but they still offed him! Gotta watch your step around the MIC Dragon! Very fickle! One minute you got it purring; the next you’re a crispy critter!)
Establishment universities bleed political activists dry filling their heads with nonsense and unleashing them onto the world as the worst enemies to their own causes. (You can attract more flies with honey than an SJW sour puss!)
They fail spectacularly. Then get Big City Liberal jobs and pat themselves on the back for how virtuous they were in their idealistic youth.
(Those People of Color in our inner-city ghettos can learn to live on a little less infrastructure, health and education. Need some high-end renos for the up-state cottage! – Their living standards becoming progressively worse decade after decade since Elvis's 1968 song "In the Ghetto." – Let's make the word "ghetto" racist!)
In all my years studying politics and the human condition I have come to one undeniable conclusion: White people be crazy!
(Welcome to your Carlsberg years! Welcome to the Machine.)
When talk replaces action, no one is ahead, Anon. I have the same concerns about social media. Does sharing something on FB or Twitter constitute action, or is a substitute for it?
DeleteGil Scott-Heron 1970:
ReplyDeleteThe first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.
The revolution will not be televised. [The revolution is of the mind.]
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will be [social-media] live.
The people first need to be informed before they can figure out the kinds of actions that need to be taken. There needs to be a lot more rational debate.
The Grand Generation handled way worse than we got, went through so much more than people these days could imagine. People are so infantilized these days. Way up on their high moral horses with absolutely nothing good to show for it.
Those who learn from history can forge a dependable bridge into a prosperous, sustainable future. (Easy peasy. Tried-and-true. It's all been done before.)
Those who can't eventually destroy themselves in their own muck and filth and flush themselves down the toilet in the process. (The Wrath of God waiting on the other side to mock, shame and condemn them, tearing them to pieces with their own fierce judgments.)
"The Grand Generation handled way worse than we got, went through so much more than people these days could imagine. People are so infantilized these days. Way up on their high moral horses with absolutely nothing good to show for it."
DeleteI heard part of an interview yesterday with Harry Smith, a man who has lived for almost 100 years, Anon. His description of the early travails of his impoverished upbringing puts your comment above into stark relief. Here is the link: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-21-2017-1.4410676/senior-podcaster-harry-leslie-smith-says-he-ll-drop-dead-before-he-stops-fighting-for-equality-1.4410696