The Common Bond

Saturday morning cartoons: I looked forward to those during my youth in the 70s. Between cartoons there was a Schoolhouse Rock tune I enjoyed--The Great American Melting Pot.



What happened to those ideas? They clearly worked. Why, then, are they passe now?

I believe it, in part, has to do with the generation that followed the Greatest Generation. The hippies that were spawned by that greatest generation, a generation that suffered a depression and world war, rebelled in mass against their elders. These people not only rejected their parents (normal in itself) but, as a group, as a movement, as Hippies, they rejected their inherited culture. They became counter revolutionaries and turned their backs on the culture of success that preceded them. In unity, a generation said no to what had worked before, no to American strength, no to moral certitude, no to religion, no to individual responsibility, and finally said no to American Exceptionalism.

I have grown to despise the Hippie movement and the reverence with which they are treated in general. Although individual Hippies are mostly well intentioned, their good intentions do not transmit through soulless government bureaucracies. Good can only be done through non governmental community. So unlike all previous generations before the Hippie generation has done more to harm to the American Experience than good. They have relentlessly attacked the common bonds that tie the US.



Where once churches and community helped the down trodden we now funnel that help through a soulless government.

Where once we had a melting pot we now have cultural Balkanization.

Where we once had the crisp suit of moral certitude we now have the tie-dye of moral relativism.


Thanks Hippies.


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