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Entry: Are the Children Our Future? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/are_the_children_our_future#25009 Post contents: Mike Gavin is right. The youth are, largely, a collection of anti-intellectual morons of extended adolescence. They are unable to take serious things seriously and, for the most part, are completely incapable of thinking outside of pithy soundbite phrases for their analysis of a particular issue. Their information of history, culture, and foreign countries is all derived from liberal high school textbooks, post-war American stereotypes, 1960s pedagogical stereotypes, neo-Freudian or else Black Nationalist psychology, overly-emotional readings of Night by Elie Weisel, summaries of complex historical events with dismissive and ideological phrases, and themes from Hollywood films and the popular culture. Scarcely any of them are well-educated of history, especially in regard to the most important aspects thereof. Let us say, for instance, the Catholic Church or the French monarchy or the Holy Roman Empire -- within the past 2,000 years, these three institutions have wielded such a degree of influence on the development of nations and customs that they deserve to be at least generally understood. As such, the youth know about these things the least. They are most familiar with the marginal and over-rated: Martin Luther King, Susan B. Anthony, and the Beatles. About every attempt at legitimate analysis by the avowed 'political' or 'religious' youths is an exhibition in half-understood stilted language that rarely crosses the borders of political correctness, and if it does, it creeps past political correctness discreetly, unintentionally, with mental and emotional reservation, a bit of guilt, and a qualification of not meaning offense. I have this very negative view of the youth because of considerable experience. After all, I am a member of the demographic and the overwhelming majority of the people with whom I regularly converse and most frequently encounter and are guilty of 90% of what I wrote. The past five years of my life have convinced me, without a doubt, that the if the youth are our future then we are in big trouble. My hope is that something very significant happens soon to terminate the pattern. Sent at: 2008 12 02