RE: Post-communism, post-religion, post-Putinism
June 30, 2022 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2022 at 10:33 am by Fake Messiah.)
This topic reminds me of a description for some idiotic book, "The Dumbest Generation", I saw on Amazon.
Just listen to this
Imagine that. The Millenials and the twenty-somethings are the dumbest, emptiest and hateful, and will destroy the civilization.
You would expect that the generation that created Donald Trump is the dumbest, most hateful and empty inside, and will be the ones who actually destroy the civilization, but this guy is too stupid, filled with illusions of privilege, and hateful to see that.
Just listen to this
Quote:The twenty-somethings who spent their childhoods staring into a screen are lonely and purposeless, unfulfilled at work and at home. Many of them are even suicidal. The Dumbest Generation Grows Up is an urgently needed update on the Millennials, explaining their not-so-quiet desperation and, more important, the threat that their ignorance poses to the rest of us. Lacking skills, knowledge, religion, and a cultural frame of reference, Millennials are anxiously looking for something to fill the void. Their mentors have failed them. Unfortunately, they have turned to politics to plug the hole in their souls.
Knowing nothing about history, they are convinced that it is merely a catalogue of oppression, inequality, and hatred. Why, they wonder, has the human race not ended all this injustice before now? And from the depths of their ignorance rises the answer: Because they are the first ones to care! All that is needed is to tear down our inherited civilization and replace it with their utopian aspirations. For a generation unacquainted with the constraints of human nature, anything seems possible.
Imagine that. The Millenials and the twenty-somethings are the dumbest, emptiest and hateful, and will destroy the civilization.
You would expect that the generation that created Donald Trump is the dumbest, most hateful and empty inside, and will be the ones who actually destroy the civilization, but this guy is too stupid, filled with illusions of privilege, and hateful to see that.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"


