"they need to remember why their grandparents have more reservations about the extremes of nationalism. That is why we can never condone a Hitler salute"
German youth might note that many of the reservations their grandparents have about the Nazi past are form rather than substance, as evidenced by the number of prominent Nazis who went on to take leading roles in postwar Germany:
Erich von Manstein, top general and self-admitted leader in the extermination of Jews in Southern Russia, postwar architect of the new German Army
Herman Abs, in charge of "economic exploitation of the concentration camp system", postwar CEO of Deutsche Bank
Alfred Krupp, CEO of Nazi Germany leading arms maker, convicted of war crimes, sentence commuted and property restored
Hans Globke, principal author of the Nuremberg Racial Laws and postwar State Secretary in the Adenauer governments
And of course, Konrad Adenauer himself, who amnestied 800,000 Nazis within 3 years of taking office.
I prefer a drunken mistake of a current young German over the pious homilies of their grandparents.
Maybe the "new vibe" is less "amorphous" than it seems. In the American context could mark the start of a return to the centrist consensus that prevailed for decades after WWII: liberal social policies, compassionate market economics; and foreign policy supporting both. Who were the last Presidents whose policies reflected all three of those pillars of consensus? JFK & Ronald Reagan. Could be that Zoomers are finding the confidence to express their own political identities/economic goals without being lectured by aging Boomers. As long as they respect the sanctity of life and rule of law, the vibe is indeed good.
Once again, lots of solid analysis with common-sense interpretation. This move to the right among the youth of Europe is its own phenomenon: if these young people are rebelling against some aspects of their parents’ world, which is to be expected, they don’t seem to be doing so in lockstep— ideologically, they are a mixed bag, which is good. As with the fake Hitler salute, however, they do need to pay attention to their grandparents’ animadversions. Thank you, Ayaan, for another insightful piece.
Today’s youth can reflect on the last 50 years of post-modernism and the liberal left agenda and see the outcomes. I celebrate their swing towards the common sense right.
The young native born don’t like immigration because the new workers are willing to work harder and longer for less. Frequently the immigrants are in the top 10% of the skill and intelligence distribution. Consider Ayaan herself as an example of the kind of people who arrive by the thousand. . Such people are admirable very capable of starting new businesses and of taking places at the top universities and of taking employment in every new lucrative business or profession. We of the established elite love to work and collaborate with such immigrants. Once they are successful, or become stars, the young people they train as students, influence as mentors and employ as subordinates tend to be from the same origin and culture, and are frequently close relatives. So what is a Young native born citizen, who is simply “average” in ability and class and family wealth to do in order to compete with such dynamic paragons? What about a native born kid who gets tangled up in drugs or who loses a parent or whose family breaks down, or has a run-in with the law, or has a physical disability? The sad answer is that such as they end up on the bottom of the social ladder where wages are low and they have to compete against illegal workers and those with no education or language skill. They lose hope, they feel betrayed by society. Now add in the complexity of minority race and prejudice. The plot thickens.
You write "Whether it leads to bright, sunlit uplands or some new abyss will depend on how the leaders of the youth-shift grow up in government." Which appears to be a mature sense of rationality, yet is this formulation of words based on the 'illusion' of knowledge inherent in human languages? And is the 'dread' vibe in the air that is being felt around the globe, not just the relatively privileged West, symptomatic of the natural 'entropy' inherent in Mother Nature's Golden Rule, everything on this planet has a used-by Date?
A New Abyss you think?
Or, if you're familiar with a famous poem about a 'second coming,' has global humanity been sleepwalking towards a prophecied abyss for 20 centuries now? As a member of A.R.C. why not become its most prominent responsible citizen with an act of 'repentance' and follow Christianity's Ascension Philosopher example of experiencing the 'psychological' rebirth that, comes with a confession of Self-Ignorance?
Try writing a sentence or paragraph explaining HOW you walk and talk, and if you have the capacity to be brutally honest with yourself, you will no doubt be forced to confess that you have no idea HOW you do being You. Because behavior is 'automated' by the unseen reality of our nervous system and just like the automated system of substance, you don't need to know 'how' your body works, to 'adaptively' use it.
And beyond the blah, blah, blah, politics of experience, based on illusion of knowing we are all raised with, surely what will be needed to successfully navigate the species-specific 'right-of-passage' challenge humanity is currently experiencing, is a clear-eyed sense-of-reality that transcends the communication biased delusion of society’s reification-fallacy of a consensus-reality?
And in the existential context of Einstein’s "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it," can technology be used to 'resurrect' the embodied sense-of-reality all human beings are born with, in the hope of escaping our self-made, prison of consciousness?
Apologies for the typos, don't you hate one finger typing on an 'apparently-smart' phone. The automated system that 'mimics' the our innate nervous system is of course 'substack' and just like our body, no one needs to know exactly 'how' it works, in order to use it. And on behalf of my generation Alpha grandchildren I humbly suggest that the obviously well-educated people charged with the responsibility of leading humanity out of the mess we continue to create, are as clueless about their own reality as ever other human being currently is.
Please, please, start calling for an orchestrated synthesis of all the 'new' information about the 'unseen' reality of being human, that has flowed from the first decade of the brain, beginning in 1990.
"they need to remember why their grandparents have more reservations about the extremes of nationalism. That is why we can never condone a Hitler salute"
German youth might note that many of the reservations their grandparents have about the Nazi past are form rather than substance, as evidenced by the number of prominent Nazis who went on to take leading roles in postwar Germany:
Erich von Manstein, top general and self-admitted leader in the extermination of Jews in Southern Russia, postwar architect of the new German Army
Herman Abs, in charge of "economic exploitation of the concentration camp system", postwar CEO of Deutsche Bank
Alfred Krupp, CEO of Nazi Germany leading arms maker, convicted of war crimes, sentence commuted and property restored
Hans Globke, principal author of the Nuremberg Racial Laws and postwar State Secretary in the Adenauer governments
And of course, Konrad Adenauer himself, who amnestied 800,000 Nazis within 3 years of taking office.
I prefer a drunken mistake of a current young German over the pious homilies of their grandparents.
Maybe the "new vibe" is less "amorphous" than it seems. In the American context could mark the start of a return to the centrist consensus that prevailed for decades after WWII: liberal social policies, compassionate market economics; and foreign policy supporting both. Who were the last Presidents whose policies reflected all three of those pillars of consensus? JFK & Ronald Reagan. Could be that Zoomers are finding the confidence to express their own political identities/economic goals without being lectured by aging Boomers. As long as they respect the sanctity of life and rule of law, the vibe is indeed good.
Once again, lots of solid analysis with common-sense interpretation. This move to the right among the youth of Europe is its own phenomenon: if these young people are rebelling against some aspects of their parents’ world, which is to be expected, they don’t seem to be doing so in lockstep— ideologically, they are a mixed bag, which is good. As with the fake Hitler salute, however, they do need to pay attention to their grandparents’ animadversions. Thank you, Ayaan, for another insightful piece.
Brilliant analysis 👏
Today’s youth can reflect on the last 50 years of post-modernism and the liberal left agenda and see the outcomes. I celebrate their swing towards the common sense right.
The young native born don’t like immigration because the new workers are willing to work harder and longer for less. Frequently the immigrants are in the top 10% of the skill and intelligence distribution. Consider Ayaan herself as an example of the kind of people who arrive by the thousand. . Such people are admirable very capable of starting new businesses and of taking places at the top universities and of taking employment in every new lucrative business or profession. We of the established elite love to work and collaborate with such immigrants. Once they are successful, or become stars, the young people they train as students, influence as mentors and employ as subordinates tend to be from the same origin and culture, and are frequently close relatives. So what is a Young native born citizen, who is simply “average” in ability and class and family wealth to do in order to compete with such dynamic paragons? What about a native born kid who gets tangled up in drugs or who loses a parent or whose family breaks down, or has a run-in with the law, or has a physical disability? The sad answer is that such as they end up on the bottom of the social ladder where wages are low and they have to compete against illegal workers and those with no education or language skill. They lose hope, they feel betrayed by society. Now add in the complexity of minority race and prejudice. The plot thickens.
You write "Whether it leads to bright, sunlit uplands or some new abyss will depend on how the leaders of the youth-shift grow up in government." Which appears to be a mature sense of rationality, yet is this formulation of words based on the 'illusion' of knowledge inherent in human languages? And is the 'dread' vibe in the air that is being felt around the globe, not just the relatively privileged West, symptomatic of the natural 'entropy' inherent in Mother Nature's Golden Rule, everything on this planet has a used-by Date?
A New Abyss you think?
Or, if you're familiar with a famous poem about a 'second coming,' has global humanity been sleepwalking towards a prophecied abyss for 20 centuries now? As a member of A.R.C. why not become its most prominent responsible citizen with an act of 'repentance' and follow Christianity's Ascension Philosopher example of experiencing the 'psychological' rebirth that, comes with a confession of Self-Ignorance?
Try writing a sentence or paragraph explaining HOW you walk and talk, and if you have the capacity to be brutally honest with yourself, you will no doubt be forced to confess that you have no idea HOW you do being You. Because behavior is 'automated' by the unseen reality of our nervous system and just like the automated system of substance, you don't need to know 'how' your body works, to 'adaptively' use it.
And beyond the blah, blah, blah, politics of experience, based on illusion of knowing we are all raised with, surely what will be needed to successfully navigate the species-specific 'right-of-passage' challenge humanity is currently experiencing, is a clear-eyed sense-of-reality that transcends the communication biased delusion of society’s reification-fallacy of a consensus-reality?
And in the existential context of Einstein’s "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it," can technology be used to 'resurrect' the embodied sense-of-reality all human beings are born with, in the hope of escaping our self-made, prison of consciousness?
Apologies for the typos, don't you hate one finger typing on an 'apparently-smart' phone. The automated system that 'mimics' the our innate nervous system is of course 'substack' and just like our body, no one needs to know exactly 'how' it works, in order to use it. And on behalf of my generation Alpha grandchildren I humbly suggest that the obviously well-educated people charged with the responsibility of leading humanity out of the mess we continue to create, are as clueless about their own reality as ever other human being currently is.
Please, please, start calling for an orchestrated synthesis of all the 'new' information about the 'unseen' reality of being human, that has flowed from the first decade of the brain, beginning in 1990.