So I was talking to an older feller yesterday. He was old, but still opinionated with some intelligent viewpoints. We were sitting in a diner, a kind of old, but comfortable place.He started talking about politics and life when he was a lot younger. Things were a lot different in the 40s and 50s than they are now. His name is Buck. And Buck was saying:
“Technology has made the biggest difference. No iPhones or cellphones or answer machines meant that if no one answered when you called, you had to wait a while and call again. This took a degree of patience. In the 40s when there were crank-up party phones and telephone operators, you had to deal with someone who would put your call through, or not, if nobody was home. Party lines also had other people potentially listening in while you talked to someone. And also, when waiting for an important call you had to stay at home and wait for it, and try to calm your frustration. Once again, patience was necessary.”
So I asked him what he thought about our kids today, and the freedom and mobility that they have as opposed to kids in the 40s and 50s. His immediate thought was that “As teenagers, they seem to be disconnected now from many things which used to be very important. First of all, family. Home seems to just be a base of operations, a place for meals and also a sort of crash pad. Kids now are so busy with so many things to do, sometimes it’s just, do you drive or do they drive? Before this we had meals together, with prayers and conversation and relationship with parents and siblings. This same idea was practiced in a lot of companies and businesses, including friendliness, and sometimes a degree of harmony.” But, I observed: The activities that schoolchildren participate in now are enormous, compared to what they were decades ago. Buck answered: “That is a very big difference. We had sports, clubs and homework. Quite a difference in schedules. The stress level was also a lot lower”
Buck continued: “School was a place of learning those subjects that were to be important in our adult lives. Now it seems to only be a way to get into college. But the most important attitude missing now, as we look back, seems to be respect. Then it was taken for granted. Anyone in authority was there for a reason. Now, it seems that questioning everyone and everything, politically, seems to have taken the place of respect. Kids seem to come out of their homes with a chip on their shoulders. From the President down to the lowest type of law enforcement, they seem to be ready for a confrontation”. “Myself”, Buck says, “I always wonder if this trend isn’t from the flower children of the 60s. Anything goes. Permissive parenting. Did this breed the type of mindset that has been passed down to their children, and now to their grandchildren? I’ve wondered a lot. Maybe so.”
I said: And those who are now parents? Buck: “I think they have forgotten how to discipline, or even what discipline really is. Parameters, boundaries, do’s and don’t’s, listening to and abiding by the word “No!” Do we really have to protest and riot and make a mess of someone’s property when we hear the word No.? The authority of our Constitution and laws, both local and federal are part of our society and civilization. We need to recognize this and follow without making a fuss all of the time. The word “No” should be non-negotiable. Understood by parents first, then their children, and then their grandchildren. Authority is not a conservative way of being mean. It is the way civilizations survive.” Read “Animal Farm” by George Orwell.
Me: Most of the above is about responsibility, or the lack of it. And once again we refer to the 60s. Buck: “Drugs, free sex, trust no one over 30. What kind of crap was that?” said Buck. “Well, it seems to be the kind that lasts through generations because we have the aftereffects blossoming even now. People are still “dropping out” or really just shirking all responsibility today. This evil has also affected our own young now. In the 40s or 50s we just wanted to get a beer somewhere. Cheap wine and booze was for bums lying in alleyways. Today it is cocaine, fentanyl, and an array of designer drugs. Many of which lead to death. But even worse is being addicted. How does anyone afford an expensive daily, weekly, monthly habit that you can’t do without?”
Me: Crime. Crime does pay, and very well, until you get caught. But who thinks of that when addicting drugs are so necessary? Read “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Much of this was predicted long ago. A whole society addicted to drugs can be very easy to control. Karl Marx says this in his books: “The Communist Manifesto” and “Das Kapital.” Buck says, “We have a whole party of Democrats buying into this nonsense, and sucking a generation or two into the idea of Utopia, Socialism, Marxism, Communism and One World. It seems that there is one addiction bleeding into another, and yet another. My generation fought and died to prevent any of this from happening again,” says Buck. “This trend is unimaginably depressing and destructive.”
Me: So who or what is to blame? The 40s and 50s had alcohol, cigarettes, and a World War. The 60s had permissiveness, “Let it all hang out.” The 70s, 80s, and 90s vegetated into the turn of the century. But did anything in life change for the better in the 21st century? Did we listen to the past? Did we learn anything from the past?
Apparently not because there appeared through the 1619 project an attempt, not only to erase our history, but to rewrite it. The Liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Communist, Democrat party voted for abortion, even after a birth, (legalized murder). Mentally disturbed people began to take over in our government to mandate more sexes than male and female. Boys (trans) began to compete in women’s sports, making it obvious to the sane that all of this was stupid. Including the pronouns. So Buck says, “The patients were then in charge of the mental ward. We had to endure the disconnected backwardness of two Democrat presidents to figure this out. Way too long. This is what happens when God is ignored or eliminated from our lives.”
Me: I agree. The most important part of our past lives, acknowledging God as our Creator, is now missing in far too many places. The Bible, Sunday Church and our Constitution have been our foundation for almost 250 years. But those infected with Marxism, Communism, etc., are being indoctrinated to think these are unnecessary. Buck: “This trend has been very frustrating, but I feel there is going to be a change for the better. Our society needs to be based on love, not suspicion and hate.”
I say: Does anyone now doubt the supreme importance of our next elections? Do we once again want to slip back into the darkness of the left and the total mindlessness of Liberalism? Buck’s final thoughts: “Let’s wake up and smell the wastefulness and rot. Let us support the only man able to make change for the better. Let us pray for the mindless followers of the Left, that they awaken and abhor Marxism, Communism and the censorship of our media and vote for the continuation of the housecleaning of America. Let us truly Make America Great Again in this, the 250th year celebration of the United States of America. God bless us all…!”