Cultural marxism at work

Traveler said:
I will close by saying that I am disgusted by what has happened to our culture and I see no possible hope for us. I am damn glad that I am near the end of my life for I am sick of all the culture/gender wars which have transpired in the last 50 years.
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I am sorry you feel that way, Traveler, and I wish you peace.
 

I can give no credence to someone that belittles people on their looks without showing what they look like.
Especially while spewing trigger words like marxism, anachrists and cultural destruction.
 

Typical. Oh, so typical. Can't make up her mind. On two completely different threads she has said that she would have nothing thing more to do with me. And, that no longer exist. Yet, she keeps addressing me , directly.
 
Traveler, try to focus.

HipGnosis wrote the following:

I can give no credence to someone that belittles people on their looks without showing what they look like.
Especially while spewing trigger words like marxism, anachrists and cultural destruction.
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What he's saying is for someone who has been so critical about how other people look, why are they so reluctant to show what they look like.

And because of that, he takes your opinions with a grain of salt, or really just disregards them.
 
In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote:

"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt."

So, people have been pissing and moaning about the young'uns for...uh...at least 2,038 years......and whadda ya know? We're still here. I have faith we'll hang on for a few more years.

I agree with Phil. I wouldn't want to live out my last years in The Slough of Despond.....or a perpetual pity-party.
 
jujube said:
In Book III of Odes, circa 20 BC, Horace wrote:

"Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt."

So, people have been pissing and moaning about the young'uns for...uh...at least 2,038 years......and whadda ya know? We're still here. I have faith we'll hang on for a few more years.
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Ah, yes. Mere survival is not at issue. The question remains however, what kind of life is worth living ? I, for one, refuse to go down the rabbit hole.
 
Traveler! I am sorry for you. I have been here 81+years and seen many fads come and go. I have never thought of our young as anything but tomorrows leaders. You may not like the way they express themselves but dammit this IS a "free country" in that you can like it or lump it but it will take on the shape it desires. You are a very opinionated man who sees only black and white. At my age some things disappoint me, upset me even, but I'll be damned if I'll let it ruin the remaining days of my life. Why not quit trying to change the world and just enjoy our differences? I wish you well.
 
Traveller, you set the hares running, don't be surprised when the hounds follow. In the bottom RHS of the graphic you posted in your OP is a statement that the images are what the average millennial looks like before and after college. Average? Hardly.

Kids in college/university like to experiment with their image until they work out exactly who they are. It is a period when they try out various images and blaming the humanities courses is just plain silly. Wait a few years until they have enough self confidence to drop the mask that they hide behind and then take the final photo. It will be a more mature and sophisticated version of their pre-college self. As Shakespeare once wrote- all's well that ends well. Do not worry so much.
 
AZ Jim said:
Traveler! I am sorry for you. I have been here 81+years and seen many fads come and go. I have never thought of our young as anything but tomorrows leaders. You may not like the way they express themselves but dammit this IS a "free country" in that you can like it or lump it but it will take on the shape it desires. You are a very opinionated man who sees only black and white. At my age some things disappoint me, upset me even, but I'll be damned if I'll let it ruin the remaining days of my life. Why not quit trying to change the world and just enjoy our differences? I wish you well.
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I do not need or ask for your pity.

Do I have opinions ? Hell yes ! Those opinions have been formed over a life-time of experiences that most other people can not even begin to imagine.

Changing the world? I know full well that I can't change a damn thing. Not one single tiny thing. Hell, I can't even get my grocer to stock items that every other grocer in America stocks.

Enjoy our differences ? When we live in a world where a person is a man one year and a woman the next year, just how do you expect me to "enjoy" that bizarre difference?

When we live in a world where young 20-year olds refuse to give up their seats on public transportation to an elderly frail old woman, seats that are plainly designated as for the handicapped and elderly only, how am I suppose to "enjoy" that ?

When we live in a country that has 58,000 over-dose deaths per year, how do you suggest I "enjoy" that ?

When we live in a world that teaches transgenderism to kindergarten students, how do you expect me to "enjoy" that ?

When we live in a world where babies are murdered just a day before they would normally be born, how do you expect me to "enjoy" that ?


You may choose to celebrate the insanity and welcome people who look like something out of an hallucination nightmare, I do not.
 
Traveler said:
I do not need or ask for your pity.

Do I have opinions ? Hell yes ! Those opinions have been formed over a life-time of experiences that most other people can not even begin to imagine.

Changing the world? I know full well that I can't change a damn thing. Not one single tiny thing. Hell, I can't even get my grocer to stock items that every other grocer in America stocks.

Enjoy our differences ? When we live in a world where a person is a man one year and a woman the next year, just how do you expect me to "enjoy" that bizarre difference?

When we live in a world where young 20-year olds refuse to give up their seats on public transportation to an elderly frail old woman, seats that are plainly designated as for the handicapped and elderly only, how am I suppose to "enjoy" that ?

When we live in a country that has 58,000 over-dose deaths per year, how do you suggest I "enjoy" that ?

When we live in a world that teaches transgenderism to kindergarten students, how do you expect me to "enjoy" that ?

When we live in a world where babies are murdered just a day before they would normally be born, how do you expect me to "enjoy" that ?


You may choose to celebrate the insanity and welcome people who look like something out of an hallucination nightmare, I do not.
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I prefer this world to the one where thousands of homeless children died horrid deaths every year in the big cities of your country and mine, circa as late as the nineteen twenties. Where during the Depression, some parents, unable to pay the rent,

sold their children, where people of colour were lynched, during my lifetime. Where First Nation children were forcibly removed from their parents and given to whites to be adopted, simply because it was believed they would be afforded a better life. This was Canada in the 1960s. Where mentally handicapped young people were forcibly sterilised, well into the 1970s. Where

sexual abuse flourished among many of the clergy, without any concern for the victims. The unmarried mothers, slaves in the Catholic laundries in Ireland, until the 1970s. Shock treatment, almost compulsory for severe mental illness. Etc etc etc. My nephew is gay, married to a Japanese transgender. Both of these lovely people continue to serve humanity by working as doctors with Medecin Sans Fronteres, in some of the most dangerous, war torn areas of the Middle East. I am beyond proud of these Millennials.
 
Traveler, you seem to have convinced yourself that the world of the past was somehow morally better than the world we are living in. But was it? Really? Have you ever read, or seen, a play by Shakespeare? For that matter, have you ever read the Bible? It's loaded with stories of cruelty and social injustice, often done by the sanctimonious followers of the religious elders?

Have you read the book I recommended: "The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible?" Or any other history book? Take off the rose-colored glasses, man. They are just making you look ridiculous.
 
Sunny said:
Traveler, you seem to have convinced yourself that the world of the past was somehow morally better than the world we are living in. But was it? Really? Have you ever read, or seen, a play by Shakespeare? For that matter, have you ever read the Bible? It's loaded with stories of cruelty and social injustice, often done by the sanctimonious followers of the religious elders?

Have you read the book I recommended: "The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible?" Or any other history book? Take off the rose-colored glasses, man. They are just making you look ridiculous.
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Duh ? Books ? Ya mean lak superman ? or da famous for ? (scratch hed, peck nose and farts) I seen won wonst ba neber red 'em. DUH
 
Traveler, sir
I’d like to take a moment to be serious
I’d like it even more if, since you are a thinking man, you were to think on the following, as it’s worked pretty well for me, one with a short fuse and a long history of meeting confrontation head first

Yes, there’s bad stuff all around
Easy, every easy to point out, any direction, any people, any place, any thing.
One does not have to seek it

But

The good stuff is still there
Takes a bit of seeking, yet not as much as seeking refuge from the bad stuff

If ones thoughts remain in the negative, one will have lived in the negative
Life is short
Or excruciatingly long
No matter where one goes, where one travels, one’s thoughts stay right with them
Like rabid dogs
Or happy best friends

It’s a choice

I have more on this, but don’t wish to repulse you, as there was a time, if someone blathered these words to me, they’d be wishing they hadn’t

The best to you

if looked upon a certain way
even a cold winter dawn can warm a bitter heart
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There is still good in the world Traveler, lots of it in fact.

Behold one of my grand daughters, a pretty typical specimen of the Gen Y cohort.
She shaved her head today.

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Her husband shaved his head and beard. So did one of their friends.
They did it to raise money for a children's cancer charity and so far the total raised is $1,560 and still climbing.
The enterprise could be equated to the Marxist maxim, "From each according to their means; to each according to their need", but I do think that would be drawing a very long bow. I just think that the three young millennials are good hearted people, as are their supportive friends and families.
 
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