[GPSCC-chat] The Greatest Generation?

[perrysandy at aol.com]

I think it is wrong and actually divisive for generations to point the finger at each other and cast blame. The blame lies with the corporate capitalist system, not with the American people who have been misled by politicians, the corporate media, and our corporate-controlled education system.  The "greatest generation" WAS great - how many of us would leave our families and communities for four or five years and risk our lives to defend what they understood was democracy and freedom?

The greatest generation was ruined by McCarthyism pure and simple. Political debate in America, which thrived from the late 19th century (and earlier) up through the early 1940s, was effectively ended. Communists, socialists, and their "fellow-travelers" were hounded out of Hollywood, the print media, radio, and every available means of communication, not to mention unions, community organizations, cultural groups, and even social clubs. When the left was shut out of the debate - as surely as Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala were shut out of the presidential debates - no wonder the result was war and "mindless patriotism".

We still suffer from McCarthyism today, where millions of people continue to believe communism is a "criminal conspiracy" as Nixon called it, rather than a viable and idealistic alternative to our broken economy. It is up to us to not be afraid to put forward radical solutions to society's problems. I joined the Greens because they are not afraid to be different - as they say, the color of courage is green. 

I think conditions today are actually more favorable than ever for proposing a new economic paradigm. For most people in the greatest generation, capitalism actually worked (see "Capitalism - A Love Story"). Now it is broken, failing to provide a living for millions and failing to protect the environment. It is time for people like us to step forward and change the world!


Sandy


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From: Brian <snug.bug at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, Nov 11, 2013 10:05 am
Subject: [GPSCC-chat] The Greatest Generation?



I was inclined to think so until I recognized that they were not even 

smart enough to put wheels and a collapsible handle on their luggage
--why should they be when Red Caps did all that for them?  Of course 

my  disillusionment with the Greatest doesn't change my evaluation of 

the Shittiest, my deGeneration, the one that climbed with Martin 

Luther King out of the abyss to peer from the ridgetop, and then stepped
back from the brink of the Promised Land to settle for cocaine and 

luxury SUVs and McMansions instead of making the dream true.


We did succeed in preventing the war against Nicaragua, and probably 

we aided the liberation of South America such that US-backed torturers 

can now be prosecuted in Chile and Argentina, and victims of US -backed 

torturers could become presidents in Chile (Bachelet), Uruguay (Mujica) 

and Brazil (da Silva and Rouseff).   But Hollywood wars in Grenada and 

Panama and Kuwait enable the propagandists to claim we accomplished 

nothing, and that claim enabled the current crop of corrupt wars that 

continue today in Bush's fourth term.




Here's Professor Francis Boyle's poetic rant:




The Greatest Generation?
Oh really?
If they were so great
Then why did they send
Their Sons so willingly
Off to die
In Vietnam
A war  they started
While we suffered from
 
58,000 young men
Of my generation
Were murdered
By The Greatest Generation
Hundreds of Thousands
Of our Lives were destroyed
Plus 3 million genocided Vietnamese
Not that “gooks” mattered to The Greatest Generation
Then  neither did we their Sons
 
Why  didn’t The Greatest Generation
Rise up as One
And tell the American Empire
That you will not have our Sons
 
Over our dead bodies!
Hell no!
They will not go!
 
Why did The Greatest Generation
Not fight for US their Sons
Against the American Empire
As they did against the German and  Japanese Empires
We the Sons of the Greatest Generation were not worth it
 
They said they were liberating Peoples in Foreign Lands
Then why did The Greatest Generation send   their Sons
To fight and die
In that God-forsaken Land?
And to murder millions living in their ownLand?
 
 
Was this some blood-sport
we had to play
With them as  pony riders
and US  as  buzkashi goat carcasses
 
Was it  reverse Freudian Oedipal Complex
Them killing us off
before we got to  them
And took their place
 
Were we  blood-sacrifice to Moloch
With them as  Priests
And we as  sacrificial lambs
 
Were they our   Abrahams
Actually murdering  US  their  Isaacs
In  a Holocaust
To their  Genocidal Yahweh
 
Hard to say
What was going on
In the Minds of The Greatest Generation
If anything at all
Mindless Patriotism
The last refuge of them Scoundrels!
 
They knew all about War
then sent their Sons marching off
 Into the Valley of Death
Charge of the Light Brigade
 
The result was predictable
A Decimated Generation
A Shattered Generation
MY GENERATION!
BUT WE ENDED THEIR DAMN WAR!
 
The Greatest Generation?
Hell no!
A Pathetic Generation!
 
May they  ever be  tormented
By Their Own  Son’s  Souls
 
 
 
Professor Francis A. Boyle 

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
 		 	   		  


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