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The Most Exploited Generation
The Most Exploited Generation
Posted by Chris Dominguez The way the mandarins of Warfare State never tire of their odes to World War II, you'd almost think they were sorry it ever ended. Their love of the "Good War" makes perfect sense, though; the period of the war was a Statist's dream come true: all able-bodied men reduced to chattel slaves of the government, and everyone else subject to its regulation over practically all aspects of life. This helps explain the creation of the myth of the "Greatest Generation." I say "myth" not to diminish my grandparents or their contemporaries, but only as a way of explaining how those not of that generation (George W. Bush, Stephen Ambrose, Tom Brokaw, Steven Spielberg, etc.) have used this flattery either in the service of their own gain or as a way of shaming the rest of us into taking up our own mantle of "sacrifice" in service to the Almighty State. What will the Warmongers do when the last of those WWII vets have passed away in another election cycle or two? Evoke the glories of Korea, Vietnam, or the Persian Gulf? The State has been living off the capital of D-Day for far too long; not much more blood can be squeezed from that rock. Notwithstanding the Statist hope of a generations-spanning Holy Crusade for Democracy, America will not and cannot keep that party going. The keg is already running dry. In 15 years WWII will be to anyone under 45 like WWI or the War of 1812--just something that happened in 11th-grade history class. |
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