Doesn’t O’Neill have better things to do than to discipline priests of Southeast Asia and Rio Grande?

Maybe he could raise some more money for his law suits by selling a few more church buildings so they can be come night clubs.

As usual, VDH is incisive, articulate and spot on!

A Baby Boomer

And we can put it all on our American Express, then pay that off with the Visa!

Of course there are exceptions aplenty, but VDH is right about the drift of the Boomers as a whole.

Yep there’s a good bit of blame that happens with the baby boom generation. If in doubt, just read the comments at T19. Its always them, never us.

Was it only the boomers who elected (sorry, appointed) oil gazillionaires to the White House? Was it the boomers who declared war on a noun? Which of two dozen or so despotic world rulers should we take on next? Should we actually think about how we might pay for the next war, while not raising taxes? There are two groups of people in the world - those that divide the people of the world into two groups, and those that don’t. VDH has given us twaddle and nonsense.

No, but it’s the boomers who seem to think that no war needs to be fought other than World War II.

The reason boomers declared war on a noun is because we don’t understand verbs either.

“It depends on the meaning of the word ‘is’.”

Come to think of it Hamlet was probably a Boomer too.  No wonder he was fixated on “To be.”

Oil gazillionaires?  And nations are nouns, too, but putting that aside, news reports point out that al Qaeda is near total defeat in Iraq, and is losing in the war of ideas in the Muslim world.  We are picking off their leadership one by one with Predators in northwest Pakistan.  Suicide worshippers in Gaza and the West Bank remain a problem, but the rest of the Arab world is sick of them.  If we’re lucky, the current Iranian government will collapse before things go too far; it’s not clear as yet whether action there will be necessary.  One can hope not.

And apparently the current concern of American intelligence is that if our puppet dictator in Pakistan steps down, Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal will fall into the hands of al Qaeda.

I was born in 1947—- I “resemble” Hanson’s remarks—hum.. does that mean I am acting out of “boomer” character?

Mr. Hanson’s examples are good illustrations of Existential thought. As the culture is steeped in Existentialism it is only logical that such errant thought occurs.

It seems that we can always find our desired outcomes somewhere between the poles of “yes” and “no”. Somewhere, in that profound Existential middle ground is just the idea that we want.

This generation is just too good to be required to suffer under anything resembling truth.

Don

At the heart of the Boomers’ potential for damage, is their substitution of self indulgence for self discipline. The consequence of this substitution is our present culture of narcissism and absence-of-standards. In an interesting bit of social convergences, the growth of narcissism and its cognate exhibitionism has been The Boomers parallel attraction to homosexuality, which has always been marked by these characteristics. They have also given us multiculturalism and diversity and tolerance, a set of mantras which, when carried into the real world, have lead to the erosion of both individual and national identity. I have heard the Boomers’ dismiss all these accusations, but the evidence is in fact overwhelming.

  To be sure, my generation helped prepare for the Boomers,  so we must share the guilt, but the world of “sex,drugs ‘n rocknroll” is their creation, and we will suffer from the damage this culture has done for a long time. Nor will the damage be healed until we are able to reinstall a culture marked by self-discipline.  LM