We are being told something happened on Saturday that was not only important, but will define a generation.
The New Yorker made this triumphant statement: "It is, at least, a generation that has now defined itself. Regardless of its long-term effects, the March for Our Lives is the first major statement by Americans born after 1999, who have presented a new template for protest." Such statements are nonsense, and history shows us why.
To put it bluntly, the long-term results of the hippie generation that was meant to transform America and its politics was basically more of the same.
In a documentary about Jack Kerouac, the poet Gregory Corso discusses the Beat Generation, of which he was a part.
He is actually part of what we now speak of as the Greatest Generation, and his slightly younger cohorts were part of the Silent Generation.
Dig it: neither of these generations, and in fact no generation at all, is defined by artists, thinkers, or media-hyped paradigms of what they think and do.
Each generation, to the extent they even exist, is defined by the same people - the people who become cops, fireman, construction workers, plumbers, nurses, and office managers.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/26/we-are-told-the-parkland-kids-have-defined-their-generation-weve-been-told-this-before-and-its-always-wrong/
The New Yorker made this triumphant statement: "It is, at least, a generation that has now defined itself. Regardless of its long-term effects, the March for Our Lives is the first major statement by Americans born after 1999, who have presented a new template for protest." Such statements are nonsense, and history shows us why.
To put it bluntly, the long-term results of the hippie generation that was meant to transform America and its politics was basically more of the same.
In a documentary about Jack Kerouac, the poet Gregory Corso discusses the Beat Generation, of which he was a part.
He is actually part of what we now speak of as the Greatest Generation, and his slightly younger cohorts were part of the Silent Generation.
Dig it: neither of these generations, and in fact no generation at all, is defined by artists, thinkers, or media-hyped paradigms of what they think and do.
Each generation, to the extent they even exist, is defined by the same people - the people who become cops, fireman, construction workers, plumbers, nurses, and office managers.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/26/we-are-told-the-parkland-kids-have-defined-their-generation-weve-been-told-this-before-and-its-always-wrong/
No comments:
Post a Comment