My thoughts on what was both a signature event of the Culture Wars and a generation-defining tragedy
-P.Z.F.
From January 2021
-P.Z.F.
“And the only sound that’s left after the ambulances go, is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row…” – Bob Dylan
On Friday, January 26th, a columnist for The Financial Times named John Burn-Murdoch posted a chart showing that the much-discussed and growing ideological divide between young men and young women in America is manifesting in a similar way in countries around the world. Anyone who’s been half paying attention for, oh, a decade and a half (or more) could not have been the slightest bit surprised.
NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.
I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles. pic.twitter.com/kG4qQReqfT
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) January 26, 2024
“Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty…Now the trumpet summons us again.” – President Kennedy, Jan 20, 1961
“Our asylums are full of people who think they’re Napoleon…or God.” – 007
You’ve probably noticed that when The Great Reset is mentioned now, it’s almost never by people associated with the W.E.F. Apparently, globalists bent on world domination are quick to toss slogans aside when they don’t go over well.
By the way, if you think Schwab’s 2020 book (which this episode addresses) was scary? Check out The Great Narrative sometime.
-P.Z.F.
(But you already knew that.)
God bless America.
Paul Zimmy Finn
Remember when most everyone was convinced Francis Fukuyama had figured history out? Me neither.
From January 2021
Paul Zimmy Finn
We’re at the “great gate in history” Strauss and Howe wrote about, right now. This episode’s summation of the idea just happened to be a bit premature.
Godspeed,
Paul Zimmy Finn
From November 2020…for the Millennials out there.
Paul Zimmy Finn
With a massive economic downturn / recession / crash / hyperinflation / collapse / apocalypse almost certainly looming over the horizon, a reminder that the MSM normie know-nothings were predicting a repeat of the “Roaring ’20s” at one point.
Some people just never learn.
Paul Zimmy Finn
Never forget the Americans who lost their lives on 9/11. Never forget the Americans who gave their lives in Afghanistan. Rot in Hell, OBL. And FJB.
PZF
The Fourth Turning is Here says our era has been characterized by “antagonistic and mutually exclusive visions of the nation’s future.” What are those two visions of America? This episode from September 2020 describes them in detail, with lots of references to Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind.
Paul Zimmy Finn