DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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At the time, the late 1970s felt like shapeless, dreary, forgettable years. Jimmy Carter was in the White House, preaching austerity and public-spiritedness, and hardly anyone was listening. The hideous term “stagflation”, which combined the normally opposed economic phenomena of stagnation and inflation, perfectly captured the doldrums of that moment. It is only with the hindsight of a full generation that we can see how many things were beginning to shift across the American landscape, sending the country spinning into a new era.

The rot actually set in during the mid-60s, but it didn’t start taking over the Crust until the late 70s.

The generation that fought World War II, who had grown up during the Depression, suddenly awash in the prosperity brought by the new industrial techniques that won the war, decided that their kids, the Boomers, would want for nothing — with the inevitable degenerative effect on that generation’s character. The characteristic moral failing of Boomers is entitlement — they want what they want, and see no reason (in heaven or on earth, and I mean that literally) why they shouldn’t get it. They see no reason not to live high on the hog, and pass the bill on to their more frugal neighbors or their invisible descendents. Once these attitudes filtered up into the Crust, generally by way of ideological capture of the universities by the narcissistic Left, then there was no stopping it. The descent from Democracy into Anarchy into Tyranny — foreseen by Aristotle, among others, who was wiser than anybody now taking a government paycheck — is well underway … and I, for one, don’t see any way of stopping it. I just hope I’m dead before its final form clanks down the street.

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