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| THE GENERATION WITH THE NEW EXPLANATION |
| Atheism, stabbings and the uselessness of centre-left politics by Peter Hitchens 'Because the heart of the 'liberation' imposed on this country by the post-war 'enlightenment' is that we are all free now, to do exactly as we wish, when and where we wish to do it - that is to say, the opposite of the religious impulse which requires us (doesn't just ask nicely, but requires) to love our neighbours as we love ourselves. This rejection of the need to care about your neighbour is the one belief that unites (and will eventually drive into warfare among themselves) the baby boom generation and its successors.' |
| In 1967, 'The Summer of Love', Scott McKenzie sang his anthem, 'If you're going to San Francisco (Be sure to put a flower in your hair)' that included the significant and prophetic line, 'there’s a whole generation, with a new explanation'. As we reel at the revelation of the latest abomination produced by that new (but now old) generation, i.e., the authorisation by parliament for scientists to create human/animal embryos, it would seem that the THC-ridden brains of the baby boomerites cannot contain the depths of their increasingly perverse 'explanation'. Why should we be surprised? This brings to mind the weird anti-establishment (and explanatory) 1973 film 'O Lucky Man', when 'Mick', played by Malcolm McDowell, is trapped in a strange hospital in the middle of nowhere and, whilst trying to escape, whips the bedclothes off a hyper-ventilating and whimpering inmate whose head has been attached to the body of a pig. It was a scene to suggest what the 'authorities', the 'capitalists', the 'enemy of man', the old 'House of Lords', and ‘our parents’, had in store for the future. Isn't it odd that the fiction applied to that older generation has become the non-fiction of the current one? Yet it is more than hypocrisy that has distinguished the boomers' explanation of the meaning of life, even if hypocrisy has become their middle-name; from Al Gore's global warmongering to their sentimental faux spirituality fuelled by massive material consumption, and the lies of political correctness. The boomers road to hell over these past four decades, widely paved in designer, eco-friendly, organic intentions all sloppily dripped in fatuous sentiment, is the result, at it's most fundamental core, of a path that is narcissistic, nihilistic, and hedonistic; detached from the laws of nature, the wisdom of the past and the application of 'reason', not to mention the God revealed to them in their childhood and whose existence or worth, in their eyes, is dismissed out-of-hand. Baby Boomers generally cannot distinguish between 'morality' and 'moralising'; where the former requires the application of reason based upon a set of principles and the latter merely exudes sentimental emotion. Name any of the great 'moral' issues of the day: War, poverty, sexuality, abortion, euthanasia, family; the boomers' are still stuck in San Francisco with answers that, in their confused adolescence, seek only to soothe their own selfish needs and sensibilities. 'I feel your pain' is more about the 'feeler' than the one in pain. The generation that smoked, drank, fornicated, consumed and wasted so much with unbounded greed and lust is the same one that now proclaims itself the 'authority' on how 'you' and I ought to live or die. Detached from the legacy of their parents and grandparents who, although naturally imperfect and utterly human, lived, believed in, and fought for a way of life; built upon a centuries-old foundation of faith, reason, the evolution of individual freedom in law, and a civilisation of 'decency'. They were the last of a legacy sparked by the Weslyan movement in England in the 18th c. and espoused by William Wilberforce whose enormous political courage sought to restore morality in public life and whose enormous influence went with the Empire around the globe. The boomer generation, having turned away from such ‘oppression’ has filled the void with notions that are more akin to the perverse ideologies of fascism and communism. Indeed, the creators of these new human/animal embryos have much in common with their Nazi forebears in eugenics, sterilisation and experimentation. The replacement of the individual conscience and freedom itself by the power of the state has deeply embedded itself in our western societies (over many lattes no doubt) that just sixty years ago shed the blood of their sons and daughters to resist and defeat. The inherent freedom of a person to choose, to speak, to even think has been under massive assault by booming legislators and judges in many places who 'define' the limits of our freedom according to their own 'new explanation' inclinations. They have standardised in the public square: divorce, abortion, fatherless families, secularism, atheism, sexual promiscuity and perversion, an increasing appeal for euthanasia, the reduction of education to an intolerant ideology, the endless use of drugs (recreational and therapeutic) as a means of treating human behaviour; all wrapped up in a culture of ‘victimisation’. What once was largely hidden in the sinister underbelly of our culture has largely become the ‘norm’ and is overseen by a bloated boomerhead ‘intellectual’ elite and bureaucracy that enforces it’s ‘feelings’ and ideology on our schools and universities, most of the mainstream media and ‘entertainment’ establishment, the Churches and religious orders, and entire sectors of governments, including parliament and the courts. The ‘kids of the sixties’, became, over four decades, the wealthy, powerful and insufferably ‘elite’, i.e., precisely what they claimed to detest back when their parents ruled things. Unlike their Mums and Dads, however, the boomer generation is forever stuck in adolescence. It has refused to embrace adulthood and the maturity that one develops through individual responsibility and character where one lives first for a cause greater than the ‘self’; a symptom that it has passed on to it’s children, whose prolonged adolescence as they approach the age of forty is accepted as ‘normal’. Those little car stickers that say ‘Baby On Board’ could apply equally to a sixty year old boomer and her thirty-five year old daughter. Is it any wonder that so many of the youth of today are confused, unhinged, lawless, violent and ‘unhappy’? Having been deprived of the authority of the firm foundation that provided secure boundaries in life, they pursue the anarchy and nihilism that has been so foolishly and selfishly bequeathed to them by their parents but without the material benefits afforded those same boomers. One might conveniently imagine that I am exaggerating things yet the facts on the ground are simply undeniable and the contrast of the current malaise with our western society pre-1965 surely is obvious to anyone who was either alive at that time or has read some authentic history (itself a victim of the boomer purge). It is not that that time was innocent of wanton violence, selfishness and perversion. Clearly, these belong to no particular generation. The difference largely rests in the willingness, sacrifice and ability of most of those forerunners to resist with all their might the power of statist tyranny that embraces amorality and perverted science to overtake and destroy their civilisation. Either by stealth within our institutions, or through cultural osmosis, the boomer generation has managed to overcome and denigrate that which afforded them so much freedom and prosperity, lower the bar on human dignity, and establish, by default, a ‘brave new world’ where marriage, family, human life and the common good have not only been illogically re-defined but become the true victims; where moral, religious and cultural relativism, the darlings of the liberal-left, are the sacred eco-friendly 'cows'. What goes around, comes around. The day of reckoning will inevitably come. It must. For the moment, the prevailing culture seems to regard itself as insulated from the consequences of its’ weakness, self-indulgence and indifference. The aging boomers may well be in their retirement homes listening to Jimi Hendrix records and toking their geriatric joints when it comes but it is their progeny who will have to face the real ‘music’; a cacophony of self-destruction and despair. Even now, there is much hand-wringing over the dramatic increase in youth violence, gangs and knifings and the ‘alienation’ of a generation without flowers in their spiked hair. What will American-loathing (and far-too-self-loathing) Britain become after the surrender of its’ independence and heritage to the truly alien notions of the equally American-loathing European Union? In Canada, what will be the consequence of the American-loathing euro-socialist Trudeaupian legacy and the kangaroo courts governed by ‘Human Rights’ Commissars threatening the ancient right to freedom of speech and more; even as its’ Supreme Court invents so-called ‘rights’ that come straight from the THC minds of Woodstock and San Francisco? Only the boomer generation could believe en masse that mankind is more powerful than God (who, of course, does not exist anymore) in its’ ridiculous bleating over ‘climate change’ (formerly called ‘global warming’ until debunked by actual climatologists). The generation that has so polluted the earth through its’ own lustful material consumption now insists that such pollution is so powerful that natural law itself is overcome; their ‘solution’ being the bankruptcy of our economy through punishing taxation and ‘stone-age’ technology with utter disregard to the poor in the developing world whose food, agriculture and survival depends upon more than the laughable accusation of the ‘flatulence of global warming cows.’ As for America, Europe and the world in general, Mark Steyn’s powerful argument in his book ‘America Alone’ predicts a result that ought to be truly alarming and enough to convince this generation that the boomers and their new explanation are suicidal. The bottom line is that there is a whole other political culture out there and more and more 'in here', whose ‘explanation’ for you and me is to be found in an Islamic state where, it seems, not even the girls wear flowers in their hair let alone gay Episcopal bishops at their ‘weddings’. In this regard, Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, seems to have already acquiesced whilst the Bishop of Rochester, Nazir-Ali (originally from Muslim Pakistan) has courageously told the truth. The best thing that generations X, Y and Zed could do for themselves, their families, their countries, and their future is to stand up to the slick and empty-suited fraudsters in our society, the whole generation that left them in this mess, in politics and in the Church, and demand their God-given right to the legacy and heritage that is theirs. They should look back to their forebears for whom liberty, decency, dignity and civilisation meant more than a ‘feeling’ if they wish to look forward to a life beyond tyranny and for which they too might be called upon to sacrifice in order to preserve. G.B. June/2008 |
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| William Wilberforce |
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| Clockwise from top left: Barack Obama, John Kerry, John Lennon, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Anthony Blair and Gordon Brown, centre. |
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