"[With] his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that any madman in this world hit upon... he fancied it was right and requisite... that he should make a knight of himself..." - Cervantes, Don Quixote The last two generations are misnamed; they aren't “the millennial generation” or “generation Z” - they are the Don Quixote generations - hallucinatory generations utterly impervious to reality.
This reminded me of something I wrote not long after Trump's election:
"I honestly think many of them are jealous. Protest groups in the past stood against REAL injustices. The Civil Rights movement addressed seminal race issues and questions about the very essence of humanity. Labor Unions dove head-first into very real concerns about workplace safety and the fundamental relationship between workers and management. Now that most of those issues have been addressed, there’s very little left for people to go after today. There are no more impressive dragons to slay. Goliath is already dead. The only enemies worth fighting now are not terribly formidable…so they must be played up as much as possible. You don’t brag when your football team beats a patsy…you brag when they take down the #1 team in the AP Poll."
Love this analogy.
And I am going to re-appropriate "stroke their political erogenous zones" at some point in my writing. :)
A perfect analogy!
This reminded me of something I wrote not long after Trump's election:
"I honestly think many of them are jealous. Protest groups in the past stood against REAL injustices. The Civil Rights movement addressed seminal race issues and questions about the very essence of humanity. Labor Unions dove head-first into very real concerns about workplace safety and the fundamental relationship between workers and management. Now that most of those issues have been addressed, there’s very little left for people to go after today. There are no more impressive dragons to slay. Goliath is already dead. The only enemies worth fighting now are not terribly formidable…so they must be played up as much as possible. You don’t brag when your football team beats a patsy…you brag when they take down the #1 team in the AP Poll."
https://chuckvipperman.substack.com/p/fun-times-for-the-far-left-seriously