Why We Have Become Unserious

 Ever since I stumbled upon the idea that our nation has become an unserious parody of itself, I have wondered what in the hell happened.  Why do we believe, against all evidence to the contrary that men can give birth?  Why does at least half of the population believe that mask prevent the spread of a respiratory virus, when science shows that it isn't so?  Why are so many companies, and even our military going "woke?"  Why do many believe in the childish notion that wishing something makes it real?

Well, here to tell us why is Rob Jenkins in an article at the American Thinker entitled A Baby Boomer Explains What's Wrong With Millenials. And what he explains is that many, not all, but many have simply failed to grow up. Further, it is ultimately our fault. We did not insist, in many cases, on giving our children the hard lessons that only real world consequences can teach. Many of us opted for the so called "kinder gentler" Dr. Spock methods that produce spoiled brats rather than strong upstanding citizens.

If you're over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public, 25 or 30 years ago, and wondering what those kids would be like when they grew up.

Well, now you know.

The problem is twofold. First, we Baby Boomers raised a generation of selfish, entitled brats. (I do not include my own children in that description, and if that seems hypocritical and self-serving — well, you don't know my kids.)

Second, in their entitled brattiness, an alarming percentage of that generation — the Millennials — has embraced socialism.

That's a disaster for this country because socialism is not just an evil ideology, although it is that — responsible, in its various iterations (including communism and fascism) for somewhere in the neighborhood of 110 million murders just in the last century or so. Nor is it merely an absurd economic system, although it is that, too, ignoring the immutable law of supply and demand as well as basic human nature.

On its surface, of course, socialism is indeed a vile, evil ideology. It is chidish in its simplicity, offering that society, in the form of the State can supply every need. Of course, no government established on this ideology, has kept a single promise. The real goal of socialism is to lock power into the hands of a few. We used to understand these things.