Friends Of Liberty's Weekend Edition: 10/07/17, DINESH D'SOUZA - Our Kids Are Part Of The Worst Generation - Robert Mueller’

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Sorry Everyone, But Our Kids Are Part Of The Worst Generation Ever....

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If you’re a certain age, it’s likely you’ve recently been told that your generation is “The Me Me Me Generation” of “lazy, entitled narcissists.”1 If you’re a bit older, perhaps you have been told that young people today are “the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation” in history.2 Maybe you have witnessed hand wringing over “the wreckage of our broken society”3 and the rise of “the latter-day cult of individualism” and “the worship of the brazen calf of the Self.”4

DEAR STUPID YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE ENTITLED GENERATION: A Word of Advice.

Has anybody told you recently that your generation is “the Me Me Me Generation” of “lazy, entitled narcissists”?1 Perhaps you have been told that young people today are “the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation” in history.2 Maybe you have witnessed handwringing over “the wreckage of our broken society”3 and the rise of “the latter-day cult of individualism” and “the worship of the brazen calf of the Self.”4

My kids have heard these things from older people. According to popular knowledge, society is on the verge of destruction and collapse, and youth today are growing up in a desolate land of temptation, immorality, and stress more frightful than any time in history. The younger generations today—whether Generations Y, Z, or Millenial—are destined to become sad little bubbles of ego and whine, if they are not already. They are entitled; they have no moral boundaries; they are ruled by entertainment and pleasure. Society is shredding before our very eyes. As a father, I’ve been told that it will take an actual miracle for my kids to turn out well, no matter how hard I try.

These lines of thought are so common that I have taken some notes…

• A famous journalist noted, “We are now in the Me Decade… They begin with ‘Let’s talk about Me.’ They begin with the most delicious look inward, with considerable narcissism… Whatever [this] amounts to, for better or for worse, will have to do with this unprecedented development: the luxury, enjoyed by so many millions… of dwelling upon the self.”⁵
• In blaming the film industry, a religious magazine wrote that movie star’s “…beauty, their exquisite clothing, their lax habits and low moral standards, are becoming appropriated by the plastic minds of American youth… Divorce scandals, hotel episodes, free love, all are passed over and condoned by the young.”⁶
• A popular psychologist said, “Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man’s estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions….”⁷
• A music critic blasted the works of a popular musician as “reveling in the destruction of all tonal essence, raging satanic fury… this demoniacal lewd caterwauling, scandal-mongering, gun-toting music….”⁸
• A religious writer noted the “…sad experience how the streets are filled with lewd and wicked children…. It would grieve one’s heart to hear what filthy communications proceeds from their mouths. And the younger ones learn from the older ones, and so soon as they go, they are running fast to Hell.”⁹
• Another religious writer stated plainly that “the soul in youth is feverish, and is primarily driven by the love of glory, and luxurious living, and sensual lusts, and many other imaginations.”¹⁰
• Famous pundits took the time to discuss how culture was becoming too lax and immoral, and how it might lead to a complete destruction of society: “Little by little, this spirit of license, finding a home, imperceptibly penetrates into manners and customs. From there, it invades contracts between man and man, and from contracts goes on to laws and constitutions, in utter recklessness, ending at last by an overthrow of all rights, private as well as public…. If amusements become lawless, and the youths themselves become lawless, they can never grow up into well-conducted and virtuous citizens…. They will invent for themselves rules which have been otherwise neglected, such as how to show respect to their elders; what honor is due to parents; what clothing and hairstyles are appropriate; and all behavior and manners in general.”¹¹

It is enough to make one despair about the future of humanity.

Except, we are already living in the future. I marked these quotes with numbers (including the quotes in the opening paragraph) so you can see where they are from:

1. The May 2013 cover story of Time Magazine, about Millenials, by Joel Stein.
2. A January 2007 article in Esquire Magazine, about Baby Boomers, by Paul Beluga.
3. A March 1995 speech by Tony Blair, then leader of Britain’s Labour Party.
4. The September 1907 cover article of The Atlantic Monthly, titled “Why American Marriages Fail,” by Anna Rogers.
5. The August 1976 cover story for New York Magazine, about Baby Boomers, by Tom Wolfe.
6. An article in a 1926 religious newsletter, The Pentacostal Evangel.
7. Psychologist and educator Granville Stanley Hall, quoted in a 1904 academic article.*
8. An 1871 review of Richard Wagner’s music.
9. A Little Book for Children and Youth, a 1695 instruction book about education and youth.*
10. John Chrysostom’s Homilies on Hebrews, a religious commentary written around 300 A.D.
11. Plato’s The Republic, Book IV, a philosophical exchange between Socrates and Adeimantus written around 380 B.C.*

In other words: older generations have always moaned in despair about cultural changes and the youth of their day. Narcissism, laziness, disrespect, immorality? Different century, same complaint. Of course some of today’s youth are lazy and self-centered, but so are people from every generation alive today. No generation is a unified set of either entitled hedonists or hardworking saints. Much of what is called disrespect and immorality today are merely the challenges that every new generation shouts at its predecessors.

Each new generation has its own culture: an inheritance reshaped through its own cycles of creativity, exploration, and experimentation. This culture feels foriegn to older generations, unsettling and perhaps even painful. Young people then feel the same in return. As L.P. Hartley wrote in 1953, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there“—and that is how each generation seems to feel about the ones before it. G.K. Chesterton noted in 1922, ”I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid. This has happened age after age….“ (emphasis added)

Psychology researchers concluded in 2010 that ”finding young people to be narcissistic is an aging phenomenon, not a historical phenomenon.“ Each generation conveniently forgets that it went through this very same process itself, but as Harry Truman remarked, ”The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know“—or that you fail to remember. His comments echo the Old Testament: ”What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.“ (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

So, if every generation is told by its elders that its character is poor and its future is doomed, what is a young person to do?

In the Bible, the Apostle Paul wrote to his friend Timothy: ”Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young.“ At that time, Timothy was probably in his 30s, and faced resistance from his elders about his age. Paul’s advice rings true for everyone, whether 13 or 30: ”Be an example to everyone in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith… Keep a close watch on how you live…. Stay true to what is right…“ (1 Timothy 4:12,16)

In other words: action, not age, is the true determination of your character. Ignore the complaints of the older generation. Stay true to what you know is right, and you will prove them wrong in the long run.

And, as a father, that is my advice to my kids—and to every generation today.

Source:>>>>>>>Here

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* For these marked sources: I edited the language of these quotes for modern readability, but I do not believe I changed their spirit.

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P.S. If you have read any of the following quotes about this topic, they are not legitimate. They’re really great quotes, but there is no record of them actually being from the alleged sources, even if they’ve been published as such.

”The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.“—attributed to Plato, but not actually found in any of Plato’s writings

”The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.“—cannot be located in Peter the Hermit’s writing

”Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.“—supposedly found on an ancient Egyptian or Assyrian tablet, except nobody can find it

”I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.“—not actually written by Hesiod in 700 BC or any other time

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Versions of this post appeared on Fatherly and on The Good Men Project.

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Robert Mueller’s Tom Price Problem 

Will the same standard on travel be applied to the ex-FBI Director? 

The headline in The Washington Post dates back to March 21, 2014. It reads:

Personal FBI flights for Holder and other Justice officials went unreported

The story begins:

The agency that tracks federal travel did not report hundreds of personal and other “nonmission” trips aboard government planes for senior Justice Department officials including Attorney General Eric Holder and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, according to a watchdog report.

Congress’s nonpartisan Government Accountability Office determined that the 395 flights cost taxpayers $7.8 million. But the General Services Administration, which oversees trips aboard federal jets, did not require documentation because of a GSA reporting exemption that covers intelligence agencies, even in cases of unclassified personal travel.

And when one follows the link from the Post to the General Accounting Office report one finds a report that says, among other things, this:

For example, in February 2013 GAO found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—which is a member of the intelligence community—did not report to GSA, based on the intelligence agency exemption, information for 395 unclassified nonmission flights taken by the Attorney General, FBI Director, and other Department of Justice (DOJ) executives from fiscal years 2009 through 2011.

And who was the Director of the FBI in that period between 2009 and 2011? Yes, of course. It was now Independent Counsel Robert Mueller.

Which is another way of saying that Mueller has what might be ever so gently called a Tom Price problem. Recall that as the last weekend began Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price was at the center of a controversy over his use of exactly the kind of travel that was employed by then-Director Mueller. The story broke in Politico with this headline:

Price’s private-jet travel breaks precedent

Reported Politico: 

In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.

The secretary’s five flights, which were scheduled between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15, took him to a resort in Maine where he participated in a Q&A discussion with a health care industry CEO, and to community health centers in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, according to internal HHS documents.

The travel by corporate-style jet comes at a time when other members of the Trump administration are under fire for travel expenditures, and breaks with the practices of Obama-era secretaries Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Kathleen Sebelius, who flew commercially while in the continental United States.

Got that? Tom Price “took private jets on five separate flights for official business” — and is now fired for it by the President. Yet the now Special Counsel Robert Mueller, when serving as Director of the FBI, took some undetermined portion “of 395 unclassified nonmission flights” using government jets.

Note well that Politico also reported this when Price reimbursed the government for trips to Europe and Africa costing taxpayers some $500,000:

Price pledged on Thursday to reimburse the government for the cost of his own seat on his domestic trips using private aircraft — reportedly around $52,000 — but that would not include the cost of the military flights.

Thus the question: Did Robert Mueller (not to mention then-Attorney General Eric Holder) reimburse the government just for his own seat on what the GAO describes as “unclassified nonmission flights” — which is what Price did? Or did Mueller do what Price did not — pay for the full cost of the flights in question. Since the cost of these flights would undoubtedly run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if not several millions, one can reasonably suspect Mueller did exactly what Price did — pay only for the cost of his seat.

In which case? Why, if he did exactly what Price did, is he back in government at all?

The real question here? When will the liberal media that demanded Price’s resignation (as here in the Huffington Post) start demanding Mueller’s resignation for doing what Price did? During the Price episode five Democrats in the House — Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Ted Lieu of California, Brenda Lawrence of Michigan, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Pramila Jayapal of Washington — all demanded that Price resign. Strangely, now that word of Mueller’s abuse is out the cat seems to have gotten their Progressive Caucus tongues.

There can be no dispute that Price was in the wrong and President Trump was right to fire him. The question now is if liberals will demand Mueller’s resignation — or give him a pass because they want an investigation of the President.

Don’t hold your breath.

Source:>>>>>>>>Here

 

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