Generational Misdirection

AN article in the Guardian newspaper, entitled 'Young People Are Angry: The Teenage Activists Shaping Our Future,' clearly demonstrates how (a) young people themselves are being shaped by the liberal mass media, and (b) their actions are wholly counter-productive and say nothing whatsoever about the global stranglehold of the usurious banking system, the loss of authentic identity in the midst of our atomised civilisation or the rapid decline of free speech and expression for those who dare to question such things.

From a group of six teenagers, a female is campaigning about so-called "period poverty" because she claims that it leads to people having to forego menstrual products and rely on "toilet paper, newspaper or socks"; a young male is obsessed with "racism, sexism, homophobia [and] transphobia" to such an extent that his activism involves recreating "iconic posters such as Doctor Who, Titanic and Harry Potter, and [making] all the characters black," challenging "gender norms" and condemning "toxic masculine identities"; a third is diagnosed with "bipolar disorder and autism" and yet thinks she can change the world by establishing "visibility for LGBTQ+ people," whilst the remaining three are just as confused and ineffectual as their peers.

More than three decades ago, I wrote an article explaining that political activists need to be a 'little crazy' to have made the break with mainstream society and exchanged the comparative 'normality' of a bourgeois existence for a more enlightened (and enlightening) lifestyle. Sadly, many of the activists we see today are 'crazy' in a far more literal sense and, instead of attempting to change society for the better, are merely reinforcing the drip-fed platitudes of a world in which Big Business can happily get on with making profits safe in the knowledge that none of these kids will ever drag them kicking and screaming from their corporate boardrooms or see to it that they are strung up from the nearest lamppost.

Whilst the more fundamental nature of our broken society is rarely challenged in any significant way, the System is trying to make vulnerable people feel more at home in order to disguise its own shortcomings. Reinterpret mental and physical problems by blaming them on old-fashioned values and suddenly everything seems perfect again. It's a sad state of affairs and most young people are not 'shaping our future' at all, they are allowing the ruling class to use them as convenient sandbags amid the rising waters of an approaching socio-economic catastrophe.