Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Potentially A Great Generation

For December 7, 2006, the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, LGF had the thread Anniversary of Another War, as well as a thread pointing to a Cox & Forkum cartoon, Then and Now. In both threads, the commenters are agreed in their depression over the contrast between the American fortitude and tenacity of 65 years ago and the current state just five years after an attack on a greater number of American civilians. I too agree on the contrast and the shadow it casts upon our times; however, I do not agree in writing this generation off as lost. There is today a lost generation, but it is a generation which we have long known to be so, while the coming generation, the generation that will probably tasked with the trials of World War III, has yet to be known, to fulfill its potential.

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3 comments:

ziontruth said...

If it were just events, then 9/11 would have done it in our case. With the adults of today, I doubt even an atomic attack (G-d forbid) would change the situation, indoctrinated as they are on the "Our imperialistic adventures made them do it to us" mentality. A new, adequate reaction to the challenge will come only when a generation that no longer adheres to this mindset comes to power.

Anonymous said...

Whoa, Pastorius. You were a liberal at one time? I'd have never guessed.

This generation isn't lost. It's the piss-poor leadership of this generation that is wacked by believing that we're fighting a conventional war against a conventional enemy.

Pastorius said...

I used to sit in bookstores reading Chomsky and Zinn, and hope people would notice how cool I was.