What Kauses Kos Kids to be Huffing&Pissed DUmmies?

There has been considerable discussion and dismay among conservatives about the warped worldview and potential mental illness of the people at liberal blog sites such as The Daily Kos, Democratic Underground and The Huffington Post. Some who frequent these blogs are, I believe, just old 60’s retreads. Others are the products of the societal experimentation begun in the 1960’s. In other words, what we are seeing at those blogs are the consequences of the counter-cultural movement, the War on Poverty, secularism, feminism, and hair brained leftist theories in the post-baby boom generation.

I’ll start by examining the attacks on the traditional family by feminism and the welfare state. The “women need a man like a fish needs a bicycle” feminists led millions of women to believe that men weren’t necessary to raise a child. Since a single woman could raise a child just as effectively as a couple, women no longer needed to stay married or even get married for once the man fulfilled his biological function as sperm donor, that concluded the only useful purpose men had. Divorce and out-of-wedlock births sent the number of single parent families sky-rocketing. The welfare state would make up for any financial shortcomings the woman might face which further negated the need to have a father in the home.

At the same time, militant feminism was also telling women that *they* weren’t even necessary to raise their children. Women were encouraged to have careers and let daycare centers raise the children. Millions of married and unmarried women entered the workforce leaving the role of nurturing caregiver to the children they brought into this world to someone else. Women who balked at the idea of letting strangers raise their children were vilified and looked down on by those who were more ‘liberated’, ‘career conscious’ and ‘enlightened’.

As Gagdad Bob rightly pointed out in his post Sifting Through the Ruins of Broken Attachment “Since the early 1970's we have, in fact, been engaging in a completely novel psychohistorical experiment with unknown cultural ramifications. Specifically, what is the effect of abandoning children to daycare very shortly after they are born, thereby disrupting the primordial attachment system bequeathed to us by evolution, the very system that ushers us into humanity?”

In time, the idea that children did not need parents to raise them created a new phenomenon – latch-key kids. A generation of children was left to raise themselves and society saw an explosion of gang culture. Young boys and eventually girls who lacked proper parent figures sought substitute role models in violent street gangs.

As if it weren’t bad enough that their home lives were in shambles, insult was added to injury when these kids started school.

Instead of being seats of knowledge and learning, schools and universities have been turned into indoctrination centers for Neo-Marxist twaddle. Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Conflict Resolution, Revisionist History, Global Warming, Human Geography and New Math have replaced or bastardized basic subjects like reading, writing, math, science and history. Useful skills such as critical thinking, reason and logic aren’t taught at all because even rudimentary critical thinking, logic or reasoning skills would show the leftist propaganda that passes for school curricula these days for what it really is - idiotic, Orwellian doublespeak and would completely short-circuit the indoctrination process.

Let us not forget that the same intellectual pinheads who gave us multiculturalism, political correctness, etc are the same pinheads who told us for decades that there is no difference between boys and girls only to recently “discover” that boys and girls actually *are* different. Well shazam! But I digress…

It is my observation that modern secularism has by far been the prime culprit for all the damage done to the post-baby boom generation for it is the single pernicious thread that runs through all the post 60’s history above. It has been through secularism that the Judeo-Christian traditions and institutions which serve as the foundations of American society have been systematically attacked and dismantled. In its place the left has created the Cult of the Secular where Government is God and there is no Truth. Pseudo-truths are handed down from Ivy League towers and are edited and amended according to the political whims and needs of the Democrat party. The Cult seeks to perfect physical man in order create Utopia for there is nothing beyond this earthly plane.

The doctrines of the Cult of the Secular have left the post baby boom generation spiritually and emotionally bankrupt with nothing and no one to believe in. They were taught in infancy that mom and dad couldn’t be counted on. The brave explorers who pushed the boundaries of the then known world were no more than vile, greedy, murdering, thieves that spread death, disease and destruction where ever they went. The founding fathers were not men of great vision but were racist, bigots, sexist, homophobes. Far from being a liberator of the oppressed, a beacon of hope, or a “shining city on a hill”, America was a collection of corrupt, misogynic white men that enslaved blacks and murdered the indigenous people to steal their land while subjugating weaker countries to fill their bank accounts and extend their power. Patriotism was a farce for there is nothing uniquely or innately good about America. The American flag was no more than a mere symbol of jingoism. Capitalism unjustly enriched a select few at the expense of everyone else. Religion or the belief in a Creator was nothing more than a tool wielded by a few to justify and spread racism, sexism, bigotry and homophobia.

One of the primary tenets of the Cult is that man is just another animal with no unique qualities to set him apart from the multitude of other living creatures inhabiting the earth. In fact, man is undoubtedly the least of creatures and consequentially in any conflict between man and other living creatures, man must give way. At the same time, man is regarded as something like a demigod for he alone among all creatures has the power to destroy all life on the planet simply by being alive. Only man has the capability to alter the climate of the entire earth simply by maintaining his life. Man is the only species whose eradication would benefit all other life on the planet. This is one of the great mysteries of the Cult.

Morality as traditionally defined, is a by-product of the Judeo-Christian religion and thus too rigid and restrictive to remake society and therefore must be redefined by the elites and be given sufficient fluidity through moral relativism to allow for certain Cult sanctioned behaviors while condemning others though not so concretely so as to prohibit redefining of what is moral as needed or circumstances dictate in order to further the Cult agenda.

Though they prefer to see themselves above such things, acolytes of the Cult are much more zealous in their pseudo-religious beliefs than any fundamentalist Christian and have even less tolerance for those who do not share their worldview than the Taliban. They habitually engage in the politics of personal destruction against their enemies. They will shout down, throw food, or turn their backs on any apostate who dares to enter the hallowed halls of their universities and speak against Secular (pbuh).

The result of this endless Cult of the Secular mind conditioning is that this generation has been stripped of positive emotional moorings and cast adrift on the sea of life with no spiritual compass to direct them. They lack the knowledge of Truth which might help them figure out that they aren’t sailing towards the edge of the earth and that mythical sea monsters should be feared less than the real sharks that actually inhabit the waters and how to know the difference. Life is no more than a vast empty space of searing heat, numbing cold intermingled with minor storms and major hurricanes to be endured but not understood. Their eyes are ever on the horizontal plane. They are unaware, though some do figure out, that above them are celestial bodies that can guide them to calmer waters and refuge.

The real surprise should not be that the Kos Kids and their fellow believers have a skewed worldview; what should be a surprise is that there aren’t more of them. Clearly not all in the post-baby boom generation have embraced the Cult doctrine on display on Cultist blogs. If that were so, then the US military would be dying of old age because if you believe that America is the root of all evil, you aren’t going to be willing to risk your life defending it. Yet there are enough men and women from the post-baby boom generation signing up to serve our country so that the draft has not had to be reinstituted to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and of course not all the members of the post-baby boom generation who escaped or eschewed the teachings of the Cult joined the military.

For me, the question is how did some in the post-baby boom generation keep their heads screwed on straight while others have a screw or two loose?

I believe it is the realization that there is a Higher Transcendent Power - a Creator, which differentiates those who reside in the fever swamps of the left and those who live in the real world. One must reject from the outset or be apostate from the Cult and its teachings to maintain or reclaim one’s sanity. Therefore if one wishes to escape the Cult quagmire they must move vertically.