WHY THE GREATEST GENERATION WAS SO SMALL | 2005-10-14
They called themselves "dog faces."
The reason they were called "dog faces" was because they were put through the Basic Training of World War II. Basic Training made them obey their masters like dogs.
The British Army had a slogan for recruiting:
"It's a MAN'S Life."
If Basic Training made a man of you, it was a failure. The purpose of Basic was to make you perfectly obedient.
It takes generations of breeding and training besides to make a dog perfectly obedient.
The Army had eight weeks.
Four years of Obedience Training. That was World War Two in America. You had to unlearn everything our ancestors came here for.
But it got WORSE.
There was the GI Bill of Rights.
Over fifty percent of those who proudly called themselves GIs, "Government Issues," took advantage of the right to go to college free.
After four years of Obedience Training, their professors taught them that only professors knew how to rule the world. They called it Progressive Thinking, they called it Liberalism.
I have lived a lifetime hearing people call slavishness heroism and hearing people call hatred humanity. So I am not the least surprised that the group that called itself The Greatest Generation called abject, groveling obedience "Being Realistic" and "Being Tough."
They thought they were mature. They thought they knew what the world was all about.
So when I said they should fight back, they laughed and said I did know the world the way they did. They had learned that the sergeant was meaner than they were. They had learned that you have to "go through channels."
Above all, hey learned that "You can't beat Town Hall."
In the American Revolution, everyone of them would have been a Tory.
That was just from Basic Training. Everybody who got Basic Training in World War II would have been a Tory in the Revolution. They were obedient dog faces and proud of it.
But Basic Training was followed by Politically Correct Training.
After Obedience Training the Dog Face went to college for the "education" they had earned. At the universities they were dog faces again:
At the universities the dog faces learned there that there were Authorities in the world. The Authorities knew what was best.
If you didn't believe it, the Authorities would flunk you.
Once again, if you didn't obey, the Authorities would squash you like a bug.
That generation, the people who called themselves dog faces, were convinced that believing professors made them Real Men.
Real Men knew the Real World.
They were Real Men.
They knew how to Obey.
You are now living in the world the Greatest Generation made for you.
Mondo cane, the world of dogs. You are living in the world the dogs made for you.