Prime's Worm Hole : Living in the Age of Whatever

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Living in the Age of Whatever

Compliments of the American Thinker March 7, 2009

Living in the Age of Whatever
By Clark Baker

I never liked hippies.

Even before I turned 13 in 1970, I sensed that something was wrong with those dysfunctional baby boomers. Their dress, hair, hygiene, manners and habits were all wrong. In high school, those who emulated the hippie lifestyle smelled bad and rarely made sense. When oily hair, bloodshot eyes, and green teeth were hip, I wasn't.

Sometime after the 1970s, hippies and their soiled boomer offspring changed whatever from a pronoun and adjective to an interjection of indifference or begrudging compliance. This was understandable not because indifferent compliance is good for a nation, but because normal children quickly tired of the disingenuous blather coming from their parents, schools, churches, and politicians. Their well-developed narcissism didn't have time for the real world.
Rather than question why Republicans fought Democrats for a century to guarantee rights for slaves and their progeny, students were taught that whites should be ashamed and blacks were entitled. Fuzzy math, multiculturalism, and self-esteem were in - excellence, morality, and history were out.

During the next 30 years, America's hippie progeny had all the answers to America's toughest questions:

Should we download music for free?

Whatever...

Should banks loan money to irresponsible people?

Whatever...

Should students cheat on tests?

Whatever...

Should marijuana be legalized?

Whatever...

Should police investigate corruption?

Whatever...

Should Bill Clinton lie during a court-ordered deposition?

Whatever...

Should prisons close to avoid overcrowding?

Whatever...

Have scientists proven that man causes Global Warming?

Whatever...

Does Islam threaten the Western World today?

Whatever...

If we close Guantanamo, where will we house America's enemies?

Whatever...

Despite being the most corrupt mayor since the 1930s, less than ten percent of our residents will re-elect Antonio Villaraigosa.

Whatever...

Ten percent of all Californians are unemployed.

Whatever...

Americans have lost over 50 percent of its wealth since Barack Obama was elected.

Whatever...

Iran and North Korea are developing atomic weapons and building intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Whatever...

Barack Obama's so-called Stimulus Bill contains more than 8000 earmarks weeks after he promised that his bills would contain no earmarks.

Whatever...

Despite his having less executive experience than a Dairy Queen assistant manager, Americans elected, as President, an "articulate black man" whose third world wealth redistribution scheme resonates especially well in the Age of Whatever. In my affluent Hollywood Hills neighborhood, For Sale signs pop up like weeds near unwashed Priuses adorned with blistered Kerry/Gore and Obama/Biden stickers. People who expected to retire last year never will and people who didn't have lost their jobs. Businesses are closing, home prices are falling, employment and our economy is shrinking and taxes are climbing. Business owners are laying off employees and shrinking their businesses to hide under Obama's $250K/year income tax cap. Faced with few prospects, even illegal aliens are going home.

During a recent weekday ride to Newport Beach, traffic was so light that I used cruise control for most of the ride - even as I passed LAX. Depression and unemployment reduce freeway traffic, pollution, fatalities, and the need for new highway maintenance. After 40 years of being very unhip, I'm now very pleased that I washed my hair, brushed my teeth, and never attended college. I find work easily and I have guns and ammo if LA's emergency lines are busy. Bad economies are good for self-reliant people.

For America's hippie progeny and baby boomers who disagree, I have one word:

Whatever...

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.