EPITAPH FOR A GENERATION | 2006-12-30
Someone told me that they saw an episode of The Simpson's where Tom Brokaw -- in cartoon, of course, but using his own name -- was shown talking to a bunch of old WWII vets, including Homer's father. He was telling them how great they were and they were shouting, "More, Tom, more!"
I haven't seen it and I find it hard to believe anyone but me would have the affronter to call down twelve million WWII vets for adopting that name, The Greatest Generation. But on the other hand, I haven't heard anybody use that term seriously in a long, long time.
As I said, I know as a writer that Tom Brokaw did not say that. He wrote it for an audience and it sold like hot cakes -- to the group that wanted to be called The Greatest Generation. I was surprised when no one challenged me when I said, in writing and in person, that they called THEMSELVES The Greatest Generation. Everybody seems to know exactly what I mean.
And that would be a fitting epitaph for the whole bunch of them:
"They called themselves The Greatest Generation."
Only with this last, ultimate overreaching did it begin to become clear just what a sick mentality, just what a spoiled-child mentality, this generation had. When the WWII Generation took over, the white man strode the earth like a Colossus. By the time these moronic cowards finally are going to their graves and whatever awaits them thereafter, white men apologize for their very existence, and champion its end.
A young Henry Clay invented the term "Founding Fathers" about 1811. Neither Washington nor Adams nor Jefferson or any of the rest of the Founding Fathers ever used it thought many of them lived for decades after the term became common. No gentleman would call himself a Founding Father.
Hell, no ADULT would give HIMSELF a vainglorious moniker like that!
Until the one that gave away everything the Founding Fathers won.
First of all, the generation that called everybody else spoiled was itself spoiled rotten. I knew many of them who, to all intents and purposes, died on V-J Day. For the rest of their lives all they talked about was how weak everybody else was, how they had proven their courage once and for all and never had to get out and battle for any cause. People of my age who had enemies taking the white man's world found a vacuum in the older generation that should have continued the fight and held our place. They had learned to OBEY, and they insisted that Real Heroes, them, OBEYED anything they were told.
As I keep repeating, there were some of them who had decent opinions, but they NEVER stood up for them. I saw endless rows of paper-hat soldiers from WWII saying they fought a war for integration and for open borders, but I never heard ONE of the pape4r hats CONTRADICT them in public.
A Company Traitors and a Legion of Cowards finally went too far in declaring themselves The Greatest Generation.
The World War ONE Generation was given a raw deal by the government when that war ended. The Bonus March of 1933 was well known in 1945, and the professional advocates of Veterans' benefits used that example endlessly to get more and more and more for the group that Saved the World by giving a third of the earth's population to Stalin and Mao-Tse-Tung.
No one seems to have noticed the connection between the hippies and the World War II Generation, or between the Jews' behavior and the WWII Generation.
Hippies said the world owed them a living. Their fathers said exactly the same thing, but their fathers said the world owed them a living because they fought World War II. But their fathers also told them, or never contradicted the statement that, Communists were the good guys. You can't give a third of the world to somebody without implying they've got virtue.
So the hippies simply took it for granted that Communists were at least as good as America, especially an America that was waging a war it would neither fight nor get out of in Vietnam. This policy was entirely the product of Kennedy's Best and Brightest. Today's neoconservatives and National Review which worships them say they still believe exactly what Kennedy's Best and Brightest believed.
So we are now in a new Vietnam.
Now back to the hippies. The hippies had been told by their daddies that the Communists were the good guys. There was no war for them to fight, but the world owed hippies everything just like it did their daddies.
The Jews came out of World War II with a story that made their paranoid existence heaven. All white gentiles WERE out to get them. Any white gentile who wanted the survival of his race was just out to get the Jews. That had been the Jewish theme long since. All white gentiles as enemies was the theme that made Communism possible. Communism was overwhelmingly Jewish-led, which led to the Nazis (even a Jewish author or two has admitted this recently).
But the World War II Generation insisted that the Nazis came out of nothing but white gentile Hate. It was the only way to justify what they did. So in 1945 Jews were, unkosher as it sounds, in Hog Heaven.
So the Jews and the World War II Generation hunted down "War Criminals" together. It turned out that every single one of the twelve million American uniformed personnel had personally liberated a Death Camp in Germany.
A few decades later, it was admitted that there were no Death Camps in Germany. The Death Camps were safely behind the Iron Curtain where they could not be investigated.
But like The Greatest Generation, the Jews have gone too far. They have made America not reviled but ridiculed as a giant Israeli puppet. No one in the World War Generation dared propose a condemnation of the attack on the USS Liberty by Israel at one of their beat-your-scrawny-chest conventions. And the suppression of free speech is beginning to cost them, as the release of David Irving just a week after the Holocaust Convention and David Duke's pointing straight at European Holocaust laws prove.
"They called themselves the Greatest Generation."
No epitaph for millions of moronic cowards could be more appropriate.