Happy New Year 2022, Part 3
Hell, & How We Got Here, Part 4
We’re almost one-quarter of the way through the 21st century. Twenty twenty-two, baby! Happy New Year, if I haven’t told you already. Meanwhile, here’s three things the media would have made a big deal about at one time, but is ignoring:
1. It’s a new decade. We’re in the 2020s now. Yet there have been no retrospectives of 2011-2020.
Then again, what’s to celebrate? There were no new genres of music, no exciting albums everyone was playing in the cars on the way to work. There were no quirks of fashion, e.g., poodle skirts, bell-bottom jeans, big hair, sagging pants, etc., to distinguish it. There was a brief fascination with fidget spinners, but that fad blazed and burned out within a couple of months in 2017. Pet rocks in the mid-1970s lasted as long, but at least they managed to stick in the cultural memory.
There were only two presidents in the 2010s, Obama and Trump. The latter’s name is anathema in polite company and the former’s administration doesn’t bear well under scrutiny. The biggest cultural shift of all occurred during the Obama presidency, and it’s one not celebrated much. For as much as homosexuals are pedestalized in our popular culture, you’d think the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage would be a national holiday. For all the changes that cascaded so quickly afterward, it could hardly be called the start of a slippery slope, but a precipice. Who could have predicted that the biggest fallout would not be the fates of the children the homosexuals were adopting, but men donning women’s clothing and demanding to be addressed by feminine names and pronouns? Demanding to be acknowledged as women, with the right to follow your daughter into the ladies restroom. I sometimes wonder if the latter wasn’t a deliberate distraction from the former, but if it was, it succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. The transsexual mania has proved to be a mass psychosis worthy of its own chapter in an updated edition of Charles Mackay’s history of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Yeah, nothin’ to brag about. However “the twenty-twenties” rolls off the tongue, we won’t be celebrating this one, either. This will be the decade in which the Great Divorce within Heritage American culture, begun in 2015, is finalized.
2. Joe Biden is the oldest president to take the oath of office. Kamala Harris is the first female vice president. You’d think the media would make more of this. Except then we’d have our attention drawn to the fact that Joe Biden hardly knows where he is half the time and can only do public appearances while drugged up seven ways to Sunday. Also, he’s incontinent. He’s had incidents on camera. The media prefers we don’t dwell on that. Then we come to Kamala Harris. She is not at all camera/microphone-ready. She tends to cackle cartoonishly when she feels cornered in interviews. The only reason she has her office is because of the outsized Indian dot-not-feather influence in our technology industry. Then there’s her actual record as California’s Attorney General. That history of embarrassments comes after the sordid tale of how she got that job, that is, on her back. The less attention we pay to the first female Vice President of the United States, the better.
3. Speaking of Joe Biden, all of the people putatively running things, namely Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, are ridiculously old. Yet the young people crow like they’re really running things. This is the revolution, man! Oh, my sweet summer children….
I don’t know who dreamed this all up. I couldn’t tell you who’s really running things. My hat’s off to them, though. Of course, Satan knows his stuff. Christians like to talk smack about him, but he’s getting things done in the short time he’s been allotted. How ‘bout you?
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