Post by drystyx on Jan 24, 2024 18:13:40 GMT
A "generation" means one thing in terms of family, but it means something else in political, philosophical, moral, physical, and mental meaning.
Let us take Jesus. He said to a group that they were an "evil generation". Were they all one age?
No. Because when they tried to stone a woman to death, and Jesus wrote in the sand, the "stoners" left from oldest to youngest.
The significance of this is not mentioned, because theologians don't concern themselves much with "generations".
But it is there for a reason. It is to tell us that being in a "generation" has almost nothing to do with when you were born, but rather what mode of teaching to which you adhere.
There are 80 year old Gen Xers, there are 15 year old baby boomers, there are 40 year old millenials.
Granted, the 80 year old Gen Xer was probably "taught" the same things that the 80 year old greatest generation person was taught, but it's what the 80 year old adheres to that determines his "generation".
Generation X was taught to be Generation Xenophobe like no other generation before has been taught. It was the very same backwards education that one thinks of for dead generations, only it was worse. The dead generations were taught a semblance of reality at the same time. Generation Xenophobe was not taught this reality.
The baby boomers were taught to question everything. Nothing was 100% sure. Each year, even beginning in the fifth or sixth grade, maybe earlier, Socrates was a full two days of teaching in History class. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not taught. The baby boomer was a "generation" that was taught to not come to conclusions.
Contrary to that, Generation Xenophobe was taught Doyle instead of Socrates. I saw it. They were actually taught to come to conclusions on what they perceived. "Observation" they called it.
Much like "observing a young white boy smile" and "Aha! That's a smirk! He's a racist for smiling, I mean smirking at an Indian!"
And there are still people insisting that they are correct in this, that they are Sherlock Holmes.
Now, maybe they are correct, but the "baby boomer generation" was taught not to jump to a stupid conclusion, nor any conclusion.
Now, the person coming to the Generation Xenophobe conclusion might be 10 years old, 30 years old, 50 years old, 70 years old, 90 years old, 110 years old, 130 years old, 150 years old, 170 years old, 2070 years old, but it doesn't matter how old the individual is, that mind set is "Generation X" or "Generation Xenophobe".
They were taught the superiority that enabled foreigners to apply that Generation Xenophobe mindset to their feeling of superiority on 9-11-2001.
Those 18 hijackers were more Western minded than people want to admit, and that's what got Generation Xenophobe so angry about 9-11. The Generation Xenophobe claimed to care about the victims, but I don't believe they cared, because they praised that very mindset of being superior, of being one or two dozen "heroes" who could eliminate thousands of other people.
That's what they worshipped. This ideology of superiority. And they were taught to do this in school, in media, in books, in movies, and in TV.
They weren't mad about thousands of innocent people dying. They were mad that someone else stole their thunder and turned it around on them. That someone else was that "superior hero" instead of themselves.
The baby boomer mind set was to feel sympathy for the victims, and to say "well, the 18 killers are dead. Nothing to do about them now. It's over".
True, bin Laden was still in effect, and it was necessary to hunt him down. It wasn't necessary to have a war of course.
Now, we have a millenial generation, and I'm not sure what they are taught. God help the world if they adhere to Generation Xenophobe mentality.
Let us take Jesus. He said to a group that they were an "evil generation". Were they all one age?
No. Because when they tried to stone a woman to death, and Jesus wrote in the sand, the "stoners" left from oldest to youngest.
The significance of this is not mentioned, because theologians don't concern themselves much with "generations".
But it is there for a reason. It is to tell us that being in a "generation" has almost nothing to do with when you were born, but rather what mode of teaching to which you adhere.
There are 80 year old Gen Xers, there are 15 year old baby boomers, there are 40 year old millenials.
Granted, the 80 year old Gen Xer was probably "taught" the same things that the 80 year old greatest generation person was taught, but it's what the 80 year old adheres to that determines his "generation".
Generation X was taught to be Generation Xenophobe like no other generation before has been taught. It was the very same backwards education that one thinks of for dead generations, only it was worse. The dead generations were taught a semblance of reality at the same time. Generation Xenophobe was not taught this reality.
The baby boomers were taught to question everything. Nothing was 100% sure. Each year, even beginning in the fifth or sixth grade, maybe earlier, Socrates was a full two days of teaching in History class. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not taught. The baby boomer was a "generation" that was taught to not come to conclusions.
Contrary to that, Generation Xenophobe was taught Doyle instead of Socrates. I saw it. They were actually taught to come to conclusions on what they perceived. "Observation" they called it.
Much like "observing a young white boy smile" and "Aha! That's a smirk! He's a racist for smiling, I mean smirking at an Indian!"
And there are still people insisting that they are correct in this, that they are Sherlock Holmes.
Now, maybe they are correct, but the "baby boomer generation" was taught not to jump to a stupid conclusion, nor any conclusion.
Now, the person coming to the Generation Xenophobe conclusion might be 10 years old, 30 years old, 50 years old, 70 years old, 90 years old, 110 years old, 130 years old, 150 years old, 170 years old, 2070 years old, but it doesn't matter how old the individual is, that mind set is "Generation X" or "Generation Xenophobe".
They were taught the superiority that enabled foreigners to apply that Generation Xenophobe mindset to their feeling of superiority on 9-11-2001.
Those 18 hijackers were more Western minded than people want to admit, and that's what got Generation Xenophobe so angry about 9-11. The Generation Xenophobe claimed to care about the victims, but I don't believe they cared, because they praised that very mindset of being superior, of being one or two dozen "heroes" who could eliminate thousands of other people.
That's what they worshipped. This ideology of superiority. And they were taught to do this in school, in media, in books, in movies, and in TV.
They weren't mad about thousands of innocent people dying. They were mad that someone else stole their thunder and turned it around on them. That someone else was that "superior hero" instead of themselves.
The baby boomer mind set was to feel sympathy for the victims, and to say "well, the 18 killers are dead. Nothing to do about them now. It's over".
True, bin Laden was still in effect, and it was necessary to hunt him down. It wasn't necessary to have a war of course.
Now, we have a millenial generation, and I'm not sure what they are taught. God help the world if they adhere to Generation Xenophobe mentality.
