The only generation is generation Me
– Gen is America’s built-in Big Sister. She’s like the hall monitors of high school who help keep us in line, keep us on the straight and narrow. Generic Gen helps steer us into the marketing buckets that correlate with the primary programming of our formative years.
Boomers are the first Gen. We are named for the sound of bombs, which is how we account for our parent’s prolific re-population of an earth laid waste by ignorant obedience to liars and thieves.
The Greatest Generation is merely a book about the reaction of some Americans to that ignorance. Subsequent Gens are relevant only to people with something to monetize, or an army to raise, which is not us, not here, not now. Our task is to seek an understanding of America’s current troubles.
Democrats add to the failure of republicanism by drafting regulations and legislation in graduate seminars, instead of in town halls.
The notion of assigning citizens to pigeonholes of consumption did not originate in the public marketplace. Like CRT and DEI, it was spawned and nurtured in academic petri dishes.
In America, all authority bubbles up from the people, it doesn’t drip down from academic types – that’s the way aristocracy, monarchy, and other forms of governance work. That’s why we had to invent America, to put the people in command.
Whether of ideas or things, the public marketplace is where the public has a vote. People in private and public colleges, however, must obey a mind-numbing, ever-expanding set of rules and regulations, just to get a seat, much less to have a say.
Outstanding fees or library fines are grave enough offenses to interfere with the conferral of degrees at some campuses; during the Spring 1969 semester, I was effectively expelled from a university in Boston for cutting too many classes!
Higher education is an extra-curricular activity, with conservatism built-in, by the curious construct of tenure. Tenure keeps professors in positions of power and influence, whether or not such special treatment is, or ever truly was, required. The closest thing to tenure in the non-academic world are life-time appointments to the federal judiciary; what could go wrong there?
Since nobody is compelled by law to attend college, private colleges and universities are free to make spring campouts mandatory on campus, and to excuse all library fines, if that is what the governing corporation desires. Colleges and universities established by the states, however, must operate according to state law, which even high school drop-outs get to vote on.