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Posted on 06/25/2018 6:35:04 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Victor Davis Hanson bump for later....
I like best the writing he does based on his Fresno-area bike rides:
Discarded diapers, the long, endless ribbon of FAT dumped on the highway from the Taco Truck driver eager to dispose of the garbage of his trade, the wrecked old refrigerator dumped off the road-shoulder...
He is a FANTASTIC describer.
Like [this]
Not like[this]
Essentially, Evergreen turned into a little Rhodesia, a little South Africa. Great lesson for the students there at the time — on both sides — as well as for millions who watched on YouTube.
We are people who are born to struggle and overcome. If we have nothing to struggle with or overcome we invent things.
Check out John McNaughton’s painting, Teach A Man To Fish.
It’s President Trump, on a park bench holding a baited rod while a young man examines the tackle box, at his feet a backpack with lefty textbooks visibly stacked next to it.
It’s going to be his greatest legacy, beyond the wall. This is how he’s going to Make America Great Again, by making it OK to find joy in patriotism, work, family and religious belief. He is going to teach the lost generation to fish.
The empty vessels that the propaganda mills churn out are looking for a leader, like young people have since dirt was new. That man in the White House is leading, and mark my words they’ll follow, or a large percentage will.
That’s what has the keepers of the swamp unhinged. They see the threat to their voting blocs and the plans for a perpetual nanny state, and they know how quickly the culture wars can turn.
According to the events of the past few days, yes. And now, as then, the revolution is likely to eat its children.
“In a free society that’s consensual and capitalist, the combination of enormous material bounty and personal freedom can take away a sense of strife, a sense of challenge, a sense of sacrifice. And that we all, sort of, end up like lotus-eaters, because the economy is so [strong] … especially in the post-industrial society.”
The poorest are the most likely to obese and have smart phones. We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout for even presidential elections for 100+ years, most of the time it has been way less. There was no organized violence or even substantial non-violent civil disruption when legal murder of unborn people was imposed on all 50 states in 1973 and the WWII generation was still fairly active. All I see is a country being far, far down a cultural slope and not realizing it until it was probably too late to do anything about.
Freegards
How nice. Another book. That’ll stop our cultural destruction. (snicker)
p
Your sarcasm is well-put. These pieces always lack a solution, because there’s not an easy one.
There needs to be SJW funding conditions placed on 50 state public university systems and on hundreds of private colleges. No one seems willing to do this, at all.
and many no need of real jobs.
bmp
Are you now, or have you ever been, a student at a communist college?
Ayn Rand was saying this 44 years ago in her essay "Philosophy: Who Needs It?"
Shhh... the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.
bump
bkmk
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