The Greatest Generation defeated fascism so that their children, the Boomers, could become the most selfish generation in history, drown their descendents in debt, and plunge their nation into state dependency and … fascism. (Today we use more polite words such as crony capitalism, corporatism, public/private partnerships, et cetera, but they are technically the same.) A nation that [...]
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What happens to a society that devours its young?
Goya’s Saturn devouring his Son is unfortunately the perfect metaphor of our age. ”The war on the young is led “by cadres of elderly men, content to manage decline” and exacerbated by younger generations, who don’t seem to know what’s going on or understand the gravity of the financial situation that will hit them in the future.”
