The pendulum always swings too far, as the observation goes; and this pendulum? that of the ME generations. Too much? too much of everything and therefore too much expectation of even more?
I was reading this morning that STATFOR is up and running again after being hacked; STRATFOR is a civilian (for profit) intelligence company that publishes reports on straightforward and non-political observations of events occurring in the world, especially for companies doing business in overseas markets. So why hack into it and steal credit card numbers and emails? Well, the obvious is as unto any other heist; but apparently this was more “ideological” and the credit card numbers were a surprise bonus, apparently (it is still under investigation). What ideology? They also destroyed four control computers; ideologists, after all, are big into destruction.
But that’s just a footnote to the occupy-ers of late. Ideologists? Maybe of the ideology of the ME generations. Everyone has a right to a “good” job, a “nice” home – and all loans to be canceled. Yeah, yeah, sounds like the ME-ers to me. But then another recent study examined morals and in the process makes the picture clearer: we have no right to judgment; one person’s cultural beliefs are as good as any other’s – ANY other’s. Really? That’s what “they” think, they being college student responders to questions on the subject. It’s called relativism; or whatever, as long as it benefits me. What ever happened to responsibility or repect for other’s rights? Ah, I’ve belabored that one before.
The problem is that some people think and reason and some people are ruled by emotion; emotion can and usually does wipe out reason. Add that to selfishness, greed, me-ism entitlement, and lack of much knowledge and it’s not so difficult to understand. Much of it tends to be what one might expect of children; we all did stupid things when we were children; well, most of us did. The fact that these are not children just shows how long childhood lasts these days, I suppose, or how little incentive there is to leave it (ah, incentive, another subject I have worked to death). Children are not expected to understand unintended consequences – or empathy for that matter. We can ask where they come up with these ideas, and how they can stay with them for so long, and answers have been provided often and in detail; but it doesn’t seem to help, except to show that it is still sustained more by emotional immaturity than it is true ideology. But it sure seems to be shaping our future.
I wonder where the pendulum is in its period. Surely it will one day start swinging back the other way, won’t it; but when?
