The difference 40 years makes (hint: none for some)
Excellent essay from
Elizabeth Scalia:
Psychologists Want to Purge Your Brain of Un-Green Thoughts
Somewhere between 1968 and 2008 the social messaging wires have gotten tangled.
Forty years after enlightened baby boomers and academics decried conformity and told the world to ignore �the establishment,� to not kowtow to �the man,� to �rap about problems to find solutions,� and to �not guilt-trip or judge other people�s life choices,� those same sorts � the now firmly ensconced �establishment� pretending otherwise � are wondering why they can�t get people to fall in line and do as they�re told to do and think as they�re told to think with respect to the environment and the �crisis� of �climate change,� the �crisis� which used to be called �global warming� until the news got out that the earth has been cooling for the last ten years and the arctic ice is refusing to melt.
Now, these establishment Boomers want you to kowtow to �the man.� They�ll brook no open discussions and they prefer you would learn to judge others � and to scold them � for their own good and for the planet�s.
Ahhh yes, the 60's -- that great "social experiment"
And just as Bill Ayers is cropping up, a lot of the failed ideas are as well.
Socialism is a dead duck -- get over it and move on.
Your ideas did not work then and they do not work now.
Posted by DaveH at September 9, 2008 10:24 PM