In difficult times like ours, there seems there seems to be a human tendency on the part of some to become either 'Rearview' or 'Telescope' People. The first fears all change and looks back to the past as some Golden Age; the second believes in a future Utopia that depends upon changing everything. This is normal human behavior, but sometimes goes to extremes. Thus we see people like Owen Benjamin and his ridiculous 'Bear' Cult roleplaying pioneer in the Idaho woods. They've rejected the present to the point where they've socially regressed to Mediaeval views on subjects like science and medicine. At the other pole are kooks of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter stripe who think that burning it all to the ground will magically 'reset' human nature into something more virtuous and pure.
It's been awhile since we've had occasion to visit the antics of the Red Pill Cult, because right now a far more dangerous cult-like ideology has seized control of the national government---a condition which the Red Pills played no small part in helping to bring about. But that notorious social gadfly Vox Day is at it again. Not content with having sown division and discord in every aspect of society he's ever come in contact with, he's lately jumped on board with the Leftist 'anti-Boomer' campaign.
For new readers not familiar with Vox, he is a prominent voice in the Men's Rights Movement---one of the many causes that he invaded an co-opted. In his cult, they divide men (but not women who are all the same) into categories of superiority which they've assigned Greek letters---like a bunch of frat boys---where everyone falls in the male hierarchy. (It's not exactly clear whether this hierarchy exists among non-Whites or not). At any rate, the Elites, according to Vox are 'Alphas'; the majority are inferior 'Betas' and the lowest rung are 'Omegas' with a passive-aggressive weakling type (i.e. loosely defined as any of Vox' enemies) called 'Gammas.' Vox was shrewd enough to realize that creating a cult of Alphas would logically eliminate the need for top leaders, so he created the 'Sigma' category to apply to himself and top cult figures.
Politically and socially, Vox and his circle claim to be 'Alt-Right' but are actually just the Reactionary Left. He admires the structure of government in the People's Republic of China and favors a 'Great Reset' in the West (although with himself and and a different set of Elites running things---he's sort of a low-budget version of Klaus Schwab in many ways). He supports Critical Race Theory (albeit with Whites as the superior class); Feminism (albeit in terms of Male Supremacy); he loathes the U.S. Constitution. He opposes Christianity in favor of a Gnostic intuitivism like the Left does and embraces a form of counter-culture Scientism which denies things like the Law of Gravity, etc. His constant caricaturing of the Right gave much ammunition to President Trump's enemies who publicized Vox a lot as a foil for their propaganda.
So it's not surprising that Vox plunges into the Politics of Social Division whenever he can; and his latest foray is sowing strife between the generations. Now, while it is true that all social subgroups have certain general characteristics (falsely called 'stereotypes' by the Left), Conservatives and Christians believe in Equality before the Law and before God. There have been plenty of great men and women---as well as a number of complete scumbags---in every generation since America's founding. The same generation which produced George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also produced Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr and we should remember this before condemning entire generations of people.
Inciting strife between the generations is not even a new tactic among the Left. During the 1970s through the 1990s, the Whacko Left Wing of Boomer vintage themselves used to sneer at the WW2 Generation the same way. The WW2 Generation was invariably played in sitcoms as ignorant bigots, uncritical of authority, hypocritical, etc; the young, hip, and cool characters were always Liberal. Let's see if anybody remembers this from the 1992 Elections:
"It was past midnight by the time Bill Clinton and Al Gore arrived, like elated and tardy rock stars, at the final concert of a grueling national tour. They were puffy around the eyes, and raspy around the vocal cords. But if, as Paul Simon once wrote, every generation throws a hero on the pop charts, this was their moment. The baby boomers bus tour was, finally, headed for Pennsylvania Avenue...At that hour and in that place, it was possible to see and hear one era ending and another beginning. At the end of this exhausting election, George Bush, a 68-year-old World War II veteran, the last Cold War president, has been replaced by Bill Clinton, a 46-year-old baby boomer and veteran of the war over the war in Vietnam."
From McCall's Magazine, July, 1992: "Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president on a night calculated to convince America he's its best hope for tomorrow...Then he joined a raucous Madison Square Garden throng in dancing to a Fleetwood Mac rock-and-roll song with the refrain, "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." The extraordinary scene dramatically underscored the youth of the first Baby Boomer ticket...Sen. Harris Wofford said, 'Now we pass the torch to a new generation of Democrats...'"
Vox is appropriating the same tactic, just as he mimics everything else the Left does. Although we tend to identify 'Boomers' as the entitled incubators of Radical Leftist politics, the reality is that a lot of them took Communism head-on in Vietnam and came back from that fiasco to elect Ronald Reagan and win the Cold War. Judging the Boomers by a few scum within their ranks is like defining the WW1 and WW2 Generations by the slackers, draft-dodgers, and war-profiteers of their day. The culture of the 1960s was a lot closer to traditional than how it is portrayed today by Vox Day and other vested interests.
The problems we face today are not generational ones. Somewhere between the U.S. Civil War and 2021, the fringes of society went from nuisances to movements, to a plurality, until the last three decades when degeneracy has become mainstream and permeates our entire culture. Faith has become Spiritualism; Reason has become Scientism; the Rule of Law replaced by Ritualism; Equality by Tribalism and Hero-Worship; Individualism by Narcissism; Self-Confidence with Arrogance; Free Enterprise by Crony-Capitalism; and Democracy with Mob-Rule.
There are a lot of theories about how we got to this place. One suggests our severe gene-pool deletion from fighting six major wars between 1861 and 1975. We lost 1 1/4 million of our best men in one century. Losses of this magnitude are bound to have a cumulative negative effect no matter how many immigrants come in as replacements. Becoming an 'Alpha' isn't going to solve any of this: it fact, it makes things worse.
We need a reasonable rejection of such nonsense. Acknowledging that the past generations weren't perfect but they built a lot of good things that we take for granted is the proper attitude. But we also shouldn't idolize the future as if we're about to undergo some great cleansing that will make us all virtuous. It's an old story and an old tendency. Some of the ancient Roman writers envisioned a future world that would look like a beehive---everybody doing their assigned duties with one Queen Bee telling them all what to do. Those thinkers---just like the ones today---couldn't see that what they described was actually a throwback to the primal herd and that Civilization grows with greater self-government and self-rule. As James Monroe famously said, "if men were angels there would be no need of government," and it logically follows that the more freedom men have---when coupled with responsibility---the less need of earthly rulers we have.
But freedom doesn't suit the purposes of characters like Vox Day or Klaus Schwab; and if we had a real society based upon law and reason they'd both be in jail themselves instead of leading companies of dupes around by the nose.
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