Ditto that, except I actually agree with much of his cultural critique. He is quite lazy, though, with the generalizations; e.g., boomers. A boomer snapshot:
Freshman orientation week 1968. Much of the class is sitting on the grass in the university gardens for a consciousness raising session. The facilitator plays a guitar and all are asked to sing along to Simon & Garfunkel's We've All Gone to Look for America. Peace, love, brotherhood, kumbaya, and let us begin together this voyage of understanding our culture at a profound level.
But standing on a nearby hill, arms folded and looking down contemptuously was another member of the class. I had met him, and we would be road roommates on the baseball team that year. Only half Jewish, but 100 percent edgy New Yorker. His look seemed to say: "You hippy dippies are pathetic. America is for being owned, not understood."
The future, of course, would belong to him. Fast forward to 2008, and he is briefly a household name as he golden parachutes away from the economic wreckage, the taxpayer bailed-out CEO of Bear Stearns (we -- taxpayers -- paid full price for the tanked company's crap stock). Though he certainly didn't need to make any more money, he landed a soft berth, back in baseball after a fashion, with the Jewish financial firm that owns the L.A. Dodgers. Back to larcenous business as usual.
Now, Cornfed is going to put us dupes who were sold a pottage of phony idealism in the same category as the predators who figured out how to make their way into the ruling class (tribal membership being the primary entree) and screwed the country right and left. By the time anyone in the generation still interested noticed that the idealism had morphed from actual social justice to cultural dissolution, it was too late to do much of anything about it. We'd been had coming and going, by those who consciously made it their business to trash and then own the United States. We're really only just starting to figure out what's been going on.
