Comments on: Jay Leno & The Dumb Millennials

By: The Kids Are Alright « Clare's News

The Kids Are Alright « Clare's News — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:03:00 +0000

[...] http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/12/24/jay-leno-the-dumb-millennials/ [...]

By: Last Angry Man

Last Angry Man — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:03:29 +0000

I live in what is perhaps the greatest concentration of colleges – and hence young college students – in the US, if not the world, Boston Massachusetts (I live deep in the “student ghetto,” if you will). On a daily basis, I get watch these young people interact. I overhear their conversations. I see the commercial venues opened specifically for their benefit.

The three most important values most of them seem to possess is eat, sleep, and gratify themselves. That, simply, is it. They are arrogant to a fault, have a keen ability to flip around any criticism of their actions onto the accuser, are violent and destructive “for fun,” and possess the most superficial knowledge of the world around them.

While I am something of a cynic, I am not inflating any of this.

By: Are we really dumber? « Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity

Are we really dumber? « Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:21:36 +0000

[...] found this article via the Conservative Blog for Peace. It seems that pundits are calling people my age the [...]

By: sedonaman

sedonaman — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:07:08 +0000

“The indispensable condition of any conservative or traditionalist movement, as well as of our personal spiritual survival, is that we say NO to the prevailing values of the liberal order and that we keep saying NO.” – Lawrence Auster

By: Alan Roebuck

Alan Roebuck — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:26:52 +0000

An important article. The ultimate cause of the cheerful but ultimately deadly nihilism we see described in the book (and in real life all around us) is as follows:

In the past, children were generally taught, by their parents and by other of society’s authorities, that the God of the Bible exists, and the meaning of life is to honor Him by working hard to support and defend your family, your religion and your nation. Not all parents believed or openly articulated these ideas, but enough of them did that nihilism was held at bay.

But today’s parents generally don’t believe any of the above things, and so they do not impart them to their young. You cannot give what you do not have.

And why do parents no longer believe? The ultimate reason is that the philosophical system of the left, generally called liberalism, has near-total control of America, and the entire West. This means that most of society’s authorities teach liberalism, and most people believe it, aside from the occasional “unprincipled exceptions” to liberalism that are required in order to live a halfway-tolerable life.

Liberalism of course, denies that God, religion or nation has any claim on people, and it assets that freedom and non-discrimination are the greatest goods. The predictable result is that people become selfish, in the most petty sense of the word, and they accordingly become unable to preserve the goods which they have received from their ancestors, chief among them being American society itself.

Therefore, to preserve our nation, we must fight against the foundational beliefs of liberalism, and we must instruct our young properly to honor God, parents, tradition and society. Otherwise the corruption of our youth will only accelerate, with disastrous results. For some concrete suggestions about how to fight liberalism, see the blog “View From the Right” at http://www.amnation.com/vfr/, and browse the archives.