Got this from a guy...
Date:2010-04-07 04:27Subject:(no subject)Security:PublicTags: frighteningly obvious
Have you ever had an idea that was so sudden with such far reaching implications that it was too big for your head?
I had one of those today.
One idea or one word that the mind was previously unequipped with, once equipped changes the way the mind interprets information as much as the hammer changes the arm of the carpenter.
It's amazing how one little piece that was missing before can change a whole paradigm of thought. That incidentally is the reason PC thugs want to change your language, as human concrete thought is based on words.
"I want a..."
"I'm afraid of..."
Which is why the PC thugs hate things like "People who like ____ are all fags" or "That guy is a retard", but I'm getting off the point here.
As it is one of the foundation stones of a whole conceptualization of teen/early twenties America it probably seems obvious to those closer to their teens than I am, but when it hit me today it was like a light-switch being turned on. It was the aphoristic light bulb moment if you will.
Due to the new dual-income cubicle economy, the joint wal mart Bill Clinton "service economy" and the disappearance of gender roles all the kids age 4-24 have been raised by the government. Government has become the parental figure in the lives of a whole generation.
That's why they all have the faith based belief in the big bang. That's why they have no spirit of rebellion. That's why they all go to college, and amass a pile of student loan debt for a degree that will have them working at Starbucks. That's why they all think they are unique snowflakes, and that's why they're all fucked up.
I know that for many of you this is a "Well, duh" kind of realization, but the implications of this are far reaching in my mind.
I can thank Obama's health bullshit for this realization. I came to it rolling around in my head over and over wondering why the young people who are getting fucked the most ruthlessly on this health insurance bit are so happy about it. The government is their loving parent. They can't believe that the government would do something stupid.