Before we delve into this article and for those who don’t keep up with names given to generations, let’s do that now, shall we?
Figured out where you are? Good. Interestingly enough and seeing that a generation spans 20 years, history shows us that in named generations, it’s more like fifteen to eighteen years— don’t ask me why but history buff or not, it’s interesting to do a little research and find out about each one and discover how they were given their names and the reasoning behind it. I could do that here, but my articles are long enough without a massive history lesson. I try my best to keep my history lessons as brief and to the point as possible but I will say this much. Each generation came with it’s own foibles, quirks and idiosyncrasies which played a role in differentiating itself from others. Why I am proclaiming Gen Z as The Lost Generation and my reasons for my proclamation is what this article is about. But first…. we need a (ugghhhh) history lesson.
The (Original) Lost Generation
Ever heard of Gertrude Stein? Born Feb. 3, 1874 in Allegheny City [now in Pittsburgh], Pa., U.S. eventually moving to Paris in 1903 with her brother Leo, she made France her home for the rest of her life. She was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. While many quotes and terms are attributed to her, two are most memorable (at least to me.) First— “America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” And the second was coining the term The Lost Generation to describe young men post WW1. Especially targeting those in the fields of literature and art such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and Archibald MacLeish. Disheartened with the direction the U.S. was going after returning from World War 1, (then add prohibition,) many left the U.S. for Paris surrounding themselves with like-minded artists and writers and when you add the fact that back then, one could live extremely comfortably on one-hundred dollars a month, it was a win win all around. It was the roaring twenties in Paris after-all with free flowing booze and all the sex one could want with those living in the middle of it desperately seeking answers to questions which could only be answered philosophically meaning— it all depended on the beliefs of the one answering.
While history shows that these friends of Gertrude Stein turned out to be (through their work) some of the greatest poets, writers and artists of their century, some of their lives didn’t turn out to be anything someone would be envious of. In fact, a few were quite tragic. If interested in knowing a bit more about this Lost Generation and Gertrude Stein, I can recommend two films. First is what I believe to be one of if not the best Woody Allen films to date titled Midnight in Paris and the second being more factually based is an A&E Biography titled The Lost Generation which you can see on YouTube while the link works. End of history lesson.
Fast-forward 100 years and we find ourselves in the midst of another generational upheaval called Gen Z. I must admit I struggled a bit when choosing a name for these (generally speaking) misguided souls. It came down to either The Lost Generation or The Confused Generation. Perhaps The Lost and Confused Generation would have been more appropriate but I decided on Lost because that’s what they appear to be. Completely lost. Not only within themselves but within society as well. The main differences between The Lost Generation of today compared to The Lost Generation of a century ago is one was primarily brought about during a world war resulting in the deaths of millions of young people across the globe (who believed they were doing the right thing) including it’s aftermath in the minds of those who survived it when they saw no real change take place such as the U.S. refusing to join Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations— with the one of today brought about by deliberate, orchestrated social engineering of our youth.
I think now would be a good time to point out the obvious to the idiots out there who will be chomping at the bit to send an email stating the obvious. As with all generations, the descriptions don’t in any way nor ever intended to describe every single person of those generations. These descriptions are conveyed in general terms. Do I personally believe everyone in Gen-Z are personally lost? Absolutely not. However, according to most everywhere we as a country receive our news from, anecdotally and statistically, it appears that generally speaking, Gen-Z are about as emotionally and intellectually lost as a generation can be. Is it their fault? Again, generally speaking, nope. But with that said, you also have to keep in mind that it’s a known fact that our youth are the most gullible, persuadable, manipulable age range on the planet. Which explains the main reason why Democrats are so obsessed with lowering the voting age to sixteen.
A Long Time Coming
While most noticed significant changes in our youth taking place fairly recently, in all actuality, this has been taking place for at least the last fifty years. What we are seeing now is the fruits of that labor with the proverbial cat forced loose because of discoveries made during the Covid-19 school lock-downs. There was no other choice the Left could make being caught red-handed so they went from subtle (slow but sure) to in-your-face in what seemed like a heartbeat. They didn’t just come out of the closet, they burst through it leaving the door in splinters. Upon hearing a chant during a Gay Pride Parade on the news with a group of people yelling we’re here, we’re queer and we’re coming after your children— even after the attempted media spin that it was just a joke, what’s going on today with our youth proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it wasn’t. Are you surprised by this (what seems like) abrupt transformation? You shouldn’t be. As depicted in the image below, the Liberal Pied Piper has been hard at work grooming the gullible for years turning many into Pied Pipers themselves continuing the work of their groomers. But they couldn’t accomplish this task alone. They required help. Let’s take a look at them and their accomplices.
Liberal Learning Institutions
Nothing new, right? The American Public has known that most colleges and universities have been under the control of the Left for decades. Not much was ever done about it because we all figured those attending these learning centers were considered at least somewhat mature enough to make up their own minds and form their individual opinions on what was being constantly fed to them by their liberal professors. That doesn’t seem to be the case these days. From what I understand, if a student doesn’t surrender and subscribe (or at least does a great job in pretending) to their professors ideology, then it’s next to impossible to achieve a decent grade or even pass the class. In any event, they knew it, even the professors were aware of it because many of these kids had their parents around to help them ideologically along the way. And because of that keen awareness, they knew they had to find a way to reach younger more impressionable minds for them to make a substantial, lasting difference. So they basically began cloning themselves with recruited students who bought into their garbage but not to become future college professors or activists. No, this time they groomed them for the all important job of teaching kids from kindergarten through high-school with some even going into preschool. Did this happen everywhere? Thank God no. But it was happening. Primarily in large cities controlled by the Left who allowed them a foothold in their liberal public school systems with the blessings from ultra liberal school board members voted into their positions by (at the time) an unsuspecting public. Remember, before convid-19 all this was being done covertly. A little here, a little there. Slow but steady while being careful not to bring too much attention to themselves and more importantly, children’s parents. When parents discovered what was really being taught in their public schools, all hell broke loose and what was once done on the down-low by teachers and liberal school boards now became an outright war for the control of their kids minds through indoctrination.
New terms like Diversity, Equity, Inclusion began to emerge. Critical Race Theory and teaching kids they can be a boy or a girl. Separating biological sex from gender became the main role of these groomers. Reading, math, civics and the like became secondary. These teachers became the parents and depending on which state one lived in, the real parents had little if any choice in the matter seeing as most couldn’t afford private school and homeschooling wasn’t even an option. In many instances, kids were being taught that the opinions of their parent(s) no longer held any value. It was what they (the child) felt what was right for them, that was all that mattered and if their parents didn’t agree, they (school officials) would be more than happy to involve child protective services or some other government agency. What happens next? Do I really have to say? Perhaps I do.
With the cat out of the bag, very angry parents began showing up at school board meetings with board members defiantly looking away not even pretending to listen to what parents were saying. However, what these board members did know is that their days as school board members were now numbered because come election time, they would be summarily voted out of office although they weren’t overly concerned as they would easily find another job in yet another more liberal district. Or perhaps just another area where parents weren’t as informed.
So, as pride flags were plastered on the walls of some classrooms with teachers boasting on TicTok about all they’ve been able to get away with behind parent’s backs, the inevitable began to happen— but now at a much faster pace. Until a new school board was voted in, they could do as they pleased.
To save typing, I’m going to use an excerpt from my article The Gender Lie. Please forgive any repetition of previous remarks.
Manipulating Immaturity
It is a fact that the most susceptible and manipulable part of any population is it’s youth which is the main reason Nancy Pelosi wanted to lower the voting age to sixteen and why it’s primarily our youth who continue to fight and die in wars. If given the right motivation, you can talk a kid into just about anything. Learning institutions figured this out decades ago giving birth to indoctrination. Back then, it was primarily in Colleges and Universities however in the last ten years it has found it’s way in to Public K thru 12 schools. Even some child daycare centers. All or most located in larger cities run by liberal democrats. Think I’m wrong? Show me most any city or school district supporting Critical Race Theory or The Comprehensive Sexuality Education Agenda or anything similar for that matter and I’ll show you a WOKE liberal school board in a city run by democrats. For some unknown reason, this is where it all seems to start. All beginning under the radar until someone calls them out on it and the media exposes them to the rest of the country. Libs of tic toc is one of many great examples of this. You watch some of the videos posted and ask yourself, who the hell hires people like these to teach extremely impressionable children? But it does answer the question of why so many kids are screwed up and confused these days.
Confusion is the key and some teachers build on that. The more confused a kid is about themselves, their sexuality and their gender, the more some of these teachers take full advantage of this and manipulate that confusion into submission and eventual conversion to their way of thinking. It’s scary when you think about it. All the while parents don’t have a clue what’s going on between their kids and teachers until the child inadvertently says or does something to alert their parents that something is really wrong— and it’s taking place in schools. Remote learning during Covid was a real eye opener to many parents which led to the ouster of many school board members and the removal of some teachers from their classrooms. Where at one time parents didn’t give a second thought to what was being taught in public schools, they now realized this could no longer be the case and have taken a much larger role in how their kids are taught. Interestingly enough, these WOKE teachers and school board members aren’t changing their ways. They’re either fired or resign only to move on to another city getting hired to continue what they feel is their battle for social justice while they dye their hair a different color, get another tattoo or piercing.
Don’t forget for a second— all teachers are groomers. There was a time when it was seen as a positive because most parents had a pretty good idea how their children were being taught in school. But this was before the internet, social media and smart phones where now a nine year old can watch porn to his or her hearts content on their phone when a school chum enters a web address saying, “you gotta see this!” resulting in a child’s questioning their own sexuality at a much younger age after watching two teenage boys giving each other blowjobs or an eleven year old girl being shown a video by her classmates as they giggle together watching a teenage girl having all kinds of sex with a man old enough to be her grandfather. Some get hooked on these images to the point where the more they watch this behavior, the more they see it as normal because they’re too young to tell the difference. And who are the first so-called adults in the room to share their own views to these confused kids? The teachers. You know, the ones with purple hair and three lip rings with rainbow flags plastered on their classroom walls. Next thing you know, John comes home from school and announces he wants to be called Jessica along with his newly preferred pronouns and asks Mom and Dad when he can get his penis removed because he no longer identifies as a boy.
We hear about the shocking rise in gender dysphoria among kids yet fail to recognize that it’s most likely due to these teachers constantly talking about pronouns and declaring kids can be any sex or gender they desire. Suggesting to kids who have doubts about their own perceptions of themselves to talk to them after class. “We will help you and your parents don’t need to know,” they say as they hand them books that in many ways, actually promote gender dysphoria. Add the easy access to porn and social media and there’s your answer.
Now, before some of you break out your shotguns, please allow me to clarify that not all of our K thru 12 teachers are this way. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say most aren’t. However, it’s becoming evident (depending on where you live) that there are enough who are to become of great concern to the general public.
Personally, I could never understand what the end game was for all of this. You know— why? What is it that compels some teachers who are in a position of authority over children and the opportunity to shape young minds into this way of believing? We’ll get to some possible answers in the epilog.
And it’s not just the children. Parents buy into this as well. They’re brought into a meeting with teachers or others like going to a timeshare sales event and walk out with an appointment to get puberty blockers for their gender confused children along with a new gender matching wardrobe from Walmart because they were convinced it was the right thing to do. Gotta love those timeshare salesmen— uhhh, I mean persons. They really are that good. [end of excerpt]
The discoveries made after Covid-19 regarding education gave the appearance that in many states, education was replaced with social engineering in the public school system. Math and reading scores dropped like a lead balloon while gender dysphoria, teenage suicides, and a general lack of respect for society as a whole rose substantially. It was as if the goal with many teachers wasn’t teaching— it was separating weak-minded students from the rest for conversion and eventual recruitment. And the key to it all was fomenting confusion.
Mainstream and Social Media
Second, yet equally complicit are mainstream and social media platforms for they are ones who either allow, reaffirm or continue that which began in education years earlier. Their goal is to sow doubt and confusion while at the same time convince misguided individuals who bought into their initial garbage that (1) they’re not alone and (2) there will always be a spot for them in their ranks. If a few die from suicide or make permanent life altering decisions they deeply regret later or inadvertently kill themselves doing that new trendy tide pod-like challenge they see others do online? Oh well…. that’s the cost of doing business. More where they came from.
As far as Mainstream News Media is concerned, there are a couple of things I’d like to say before I invite you to read my three-part series dedicated to that very topic. First is the warning that the media is under no legal obligation to tell you the truth and second— try to pay equal attention on what is not reported on. That may surprise you more than what actually is reported on. You do this by occasionally visiting websites from other news outlets whether you agree or disagree with whatever narrative you may think they’re spinning. Look at their top stories and notice if the outlet where you get your news from has a similar story or better yet, whether or not it’s even mentioned. If they do, read both. Compare them and see which one provides either a more unbiased report or if it’s an opinion piece, who makes the better argument. Again, might just surprise you— almost to the point of astonishment.
Is there a reason for this? Absolutely and I’ll provide a quote from the grave of David Rockefeller for said reason in a 1991 Speech he gave at a Bilderberg Group Meeting.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” ― David Rockefeller
Sums it all up quite nicely and it continues to this day.
Read the three part series? Good. OK, let’s move on to Social Media.
Warning: Social Media Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Suicide, Bullying, Sex Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, the open availability of Porn to anyone of any age are just a few of the many wonderful (sarcasm) things anyone with an internet connection can experience on Social Media and it has played a key role in the mindset of this Lost Generation. Trashing convenience stores, fast food restaurants just because it appears there are no consequences and makes these kids look cool as they live-stream are just two examples because they had to get these ideas somewhere and from someone. Welcome Social Media.
While it also appears most decide not to buy into this behavior, (some get an equal rise purely from convincing others to,) we have also seen that it doesn’t take that many to create chaos and havoc in a community, large or small. Somewhat more astonishing is the complete lack of morality and the fact that most people in these groups literally don’t give a shit what outcome arises from this behavior. They just don’t care. Rape, robbery… even murder. Watch any court arraignment with these kids and you can see it in their eyes, they just don’t care. To them it’s all a game, until it isn’t. And even then— incredibly, they still don’t care. I personally find it amazing how many young people make a conscious decision to completely throw their lives away on a daily basis. Some even smiling about it. But that’s another story.
Misery Loves Company
It was bad enough when young people in the past placed a greater value than they probably should have on the opinions of people they personally knew. Now they seek out and count on the advice from complete strangers who happened to make them feel better by saying they could feel their pain as many were actually taking advantage of that very pain to get what they wanted. Weak-minded, confused, self-deprecating young people online seeking some answer as to why they feel the way they feel and more importantly (to them)— who’s to blame for it all and what they should do to remedy their feelings. These are what social media predators seek. These are their prey of choice whether it’s for ideology conversion and/or recruitment, sexual indoctrination, being eventually trafficked or perhaps something as simple as convincing them to vote a certain way.
Batshit Crazy (he said lovingly…)
Mental illness within the Gen-Z population is the highest of any generation. Teen suicides, all-time high. Crime including murder by and towards young people, all-time high. Gender dysphoria is also at record highs. And believe it or not, so is sex work. There are more young women getting into digital porn than at anytime in the past. Is that a bad thing? I guess not so much for young men with absolutely no desire nor interest in healthy, loving relationships with young women because they believe most girls now identify as one of 187 different genders and all the attractive ones are on some porn site or another making a boatload of money. Why buy the cow when they can masturbate to all the milk porn sites provide for free? No fuss no muss. Ten minutes later they can return to their video games. Relationships— especially between young men and women are no longer worth the effort. Casual sex with no strings has made a comeback from the 70’s. And forget having a real conversation with someone. Texting is now the preferred form of communication (which is sad) and that goes for Millennials as well. In fact, I think it started with them. The art of conversation is on it’s way to becoming obsolete.
On a Brighter Note
I did hear that many Gen Z’ers are coming to their senses and ditching social media altogether. They’re tossing their smart phones and purchasing phones with simple talk, text and possible email only. The old flip-phone is coming back in style. They’re coming to the conclusion that social media (especially for young people) is doing more harm than good.
The Entertainment Industry
And last but certainly not least in the way society as a whole is influenced, is the entertainment industry. In addition to learning institutions, media along with social media, the entertainment industry continues this indoctrination by normalizing that which is definitely not considered average by any stretch of the imagination. Now, before I go any further, let me state what I say in all of my articles (when warranted.) I have always been a live and let live guy. Personally, I don’t give one shit the way others decide to live their lives just as long as the way others live their lives doesn’t interfere with the way I live mine. And that goes both ways. In fact, that’s not what this article is even about. But I’ll get more into that in the epilog.
That being said, I do find it interesting how the entertainment (who everyone has known for years leans Left to Far-Left) has been shoving their ideology down the throats of just about everyone. What I also find interesting is in the way they do this. Remember the old saying sex sells? Well, it still does. The only difference these days is what is being sold. Whereas once sex was used to sell tangible products like cigarettes, perfume and liquor, ideology is now the product of choice. One can simply say “if you don’t like it you don’t have to watch it” and that might be fine for an older individual where sex no longer has the influence it once had. But we’re talking about young people. Especially young men where sex is still one of, if not top on the priority list. Sex or at the very least the desire for viewing sex is an important part of most young lives. Those in the entertainment industry are well aware of this and keep their social agenda alive and well by making sure to add enough sex into the mix keeping their young audience enticed while at the same time convincing said audience that everything else they’re watching is normal, average everyday life and most importantly, they should be thinking the same way. That is the key term here. Their audience— demographics and the mindset of a particular demographic. Two results that happen when one is exposed to a particular thing on a daily basis are (1) people become desensitized and (2) they begin to believe it’s now common and therefore seen as normal.
Example: Someone working as a prison guard year after year, constantly around violent dregs of society for eight hours a day. Eventually, they begin to view all people in the same light and lose trust in society as a whole. They see society in a more negative way than the average man or woman.
Example: Someone watching the news and it appears every story on criminal activity, those arrested are black. When it appears that most if not all criminals in these stories are black, stories on looting— the faces on the stories reported on are black. Riots, robberies, car-jackings, drugs, shootings— just about any story regarding crime being reported on outside of mass/school shootings, true or not— right or wrong, the faces of those arrested are black. People (including people of color) lose their trust and become very suspicious of the black community believing that most young black people are criminals.
Example: Gay and interracial relationships are being portrayed everywhere (especially on TV and commercials) as if these particular groups make up a much greater percentage of the population in the U.S. where in fact, they make up a very small percentage. Look at most commercials these days and notice how many married couples with kids are interracial. You rarely see a black family these days. Hallmark has gone overboard where in just about every movie, there is at least one interracial or gay married couple. It’s now just as expected as the kiss interrupted by a phone call. While I’m not a fan of overly gay movies, that’s what the remote is for. But do I personally care or am I offended? Absolutely not. But there are many who do. I’ve seen plenty of YouTube videos from young black women wondering why they can’t find a good black man. But it gets to the point when you begin feeling like it’s being forced on the viewer. When you see an interracial couple, gay couple introduced into the film, especially when by doing so adds absolutely nothing to the story-line, one immediately thinks to themselves…. “Yep! I was waiting for that. They just had to put that in.” Does it really matter? Nope. But damn, do they have to make it that obvious?
Last example: Young men begin to believe the porn they’ve been watching for years on the internet is how men and women are supposed to have sex. Then when in a relationship, this is the kind of sex they expect from their partner. In one documentary, a young woman talked about her experience with a young man who believed it was completely normal to slap her face and/or choke her during intercourse, then pull out and ejaculate all over her face. While there are perhaps women out there who enjoy this, she was shocked to find out this was what her partner believed was completely normal and how all women wanted to be treated during sex.
Again— let me make myself unequivocally clear. The examples above are simply observations and do not in any way shape or form reflect my personal views on those observations. I am definitely one of those change the channels guys if I feel it’s appropriate for me personally. The point I’m making is this is how society is shaped by not just the entertainment industry but the two other platforms discussed above as well. All three contributing significantly to The Lost Generation.
One thing we can all agree on— whether it’s fifteen or twenty years, that’s a really long time and a whole lot can happen within that time frame which is why descriptions about generations are written about in somewhat vague and general ways. It was never meant to encapsulate all those living during those times in one particular group. Think about it, today, as part of Gen Z, one individual of this generation could be as young as 11 and as old as 27. Anyone would consider that a fairly large gap in how people in this age range feel about society and the world around them as a whole. Which means there is room and still time for redemption. Why? First of all, you must realize that none of this is your fault. Your doing.
Your life and by extension your views on life have been molded by at least the two generations before you. Do you believe those who run social media, mainstream media, learning institutions and the entertainment industry are 27 years old or possibly younger? Of course not. Do you believe those who make decisions on what you see, read or hear— even the music you listen or dance to are made by twenty-somethings? Of course not. And by virtue of this along with technology, your generation has been exposed to more garbage including ideology than any generation before you which now makes you the most dangerous generation in history.
If you haven’t noticed, many parts of this country are going to hell in a hand-barrow. Many cities have become shit-hole cities. The dumbing down of children— still residing in your generation mind you while moving onto Generation Alpha (which I can only imagine means the complete reconstruction of the U.S. in the image of Global democrat socialists) is continuing to this very day. Church attendance is at an all time low while kids raised by a single parent are at an all time high. Fathers and/or any kind of a positive male role model to young kids are practically non-existent. Again, through no fault of your own and the saddest part of all, this is by design perpetrated primarily by Left-wing Gen X and Millennials who are now in complete control of these three platforms. Outside of parents and immediate family members, these three platforms shape the most impressionable minds on the planet and whose minds am I referring to? Yours.
Ronald Reagan said it best…
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
In many ways, with what has been and still is going on in this country, politically and socially— we are already saying that now with the only caveat being replacing “men” with “Americans”.
The Lost Generation has to find itself. They have to be able to distinguish the differences between that which is harming them socially and by extension— mentally and that which will enrich their lives making them better than they were. You’ll have to be able to discern between irrational wishful thinking and the reality of the times in which we live. Not only here in the U.S. but the rest of the world around us. You’re arriving to a time when you will be making decisions that will impact not only those in your own generation but generations to come. And keep in mind as you make these decisions that the ones you make, in many instances, affect others more than they will affect you. Many of your generation, whether you like it or not, now have a seat at the grown-ups table and if you don’t make an effort in paying attention to your critical, rational mind instead of your emotional mind….. well, let’s just say there are times in life when we don’t get second chances.
I’ll end this typically LONG article with the words Professor Dumbledore said to Harry Potter in The Goblet of Fire
