WHO ARE THE OLD FOLKS? | 2006-04-19
About 1959 I watched a Twilight Zone episode which had a World War I pilot breaking through the time barrier an landing at an American air base. He was in a completeley alien world. To us in the late 1950s World War I was a completely unrelated age.
His tick-tick-tick little plane looked like a toy amid the huge jets bombers. His ID showed him with his hair uncombed and looked like a cheap bit of cardboard, totally unlike the laminated IDs of that "modern" age.
World War I was a LONG time ago.
Today, we still have hippies pushing the "revolutionary" ideas they were marching around about four decades ago. The media NEVER refer to them as "old timers."
Listening to the dying voices of network TV, you woulf think those were still the Voices of Tomorrow. Nobody notices it or thinks it's funny.
And that, boys and girls, is the POINT.
It's not just incorrect, it's FUNNY.
Until you realize that the hippies are in an age as farther back than World War I was in 1959, you have not the slightest persepctive on Modern Opinion.
Every campus in America is firmly stuck in the 1960s. They are trying to enforce 1960s hippie opinion.
If someone has to be pretty stupid to hold that nonsense high decades after its heyday, what about the people who PAY for it? What about hte people who disagree with it but take it seriously?
I am trying to get the truth out among a bunch of retards. aka, respectable conservatives. Southerners are particularly pathetic. When a Southerner goes liberal, he instantly becomes a 1960s hippie. Worse, he honestly believes he has discovered Modern Opinion, a whole NEW set of ideas.
I was reading a history of hte Coca-Cola company by a guy from an old Atlanta family, published in 1993.
He was talking about a Coca-Cola executive who went to India and got a good look at the misery there around 1952:
"Harold had an overwhelming desire to lock himself in the Taj Mahal Hotel to 'shut out all the misery.' Ther next day, WITH NO APPRENT SENSE OF IRONY (my emphases), Harrold described the p'perfectly gorgeous' Coca Cola bottling plant..."
Why should he feel a sense of irony? He was bringing somehting to India to help alleviate all that misery, but the author didn't see it that way. He is a Southerner who has adopted Modern, i.e., hippie, thought.
The hippie idea was that all of us should be ashamed that we lived better than the third world.
The ippies BELIEVED something that is hard for us to imagine today. They genuinely believed, and said repeatedly onthe endless string of Tonight Shows they were on, that all the money white countries had was STOLEN from the third world. So the Coke building was the cause of India's misery.
How do you deal with that? How on earth would we be able to steal money the third world never had?
Nobody EVER asked that.
Certainly this author, a Southerner-turned-Modern Thinker, had no sense of irony whatsoever about what he said. He took it for granted that all Modern Thinkers would understand why an American should feel a sense of "irony" because his plant was rich and India was poor.
Most people wouldn't even notice this little sentence in a thick book, but, as a friend of mine said, "Things jump out at you that other people don't even notice."
Well, if we are going to reverse today's trends, we had damned well better start NOTICING.