By Selwyn Duke
While I certainly look back with fondness on the “Greatest
Generation,” I can’t help but think that the superlative applied to it
may be unwarranted. They did weather the Great Depression and defeat the
National Socialists, but they also greatly empowered international
socialists. These would be people such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who
gave the big-government ball American history’s hardest push and made
constitutional trespass an art form. And then there is something else:
If we believe the truest measure of a person is how he raises his
children, we should note that WWII-era Americans gave us Generation
Zero.
This is a term coined by those who gave us the new documentary Generation Zero.
Produced by David Bossie of Citizens United Productions and directed by
Stephen Bannon, the work examines the causes of our financial crisis.
But it is no plain-vanilla, statistics-addled snoozefest, as it looks
beyond the usual one-dimensional political and economic explanations to
that deeper realm: the moral. And, as its title suggests, its makers
place the blame for the crisis squarely on the shoulders of the Baby
Boomer generation — or, should I say, degeneration — which shed
tradition and virtue at a rate theretofore unseen in American history.
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