The Infantilized Generation

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Verb: past tense: infantilized; past participle: infantilized

1. To treat (someone) as a child or in a way that denies their maturity in age or experience: "seeing yourself as a victim infantilizes you"

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Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation was replaced by LBJ’s , Welfare Generation that was replaced by today’s Infantilized Generation. Our tech-savvy, globalized millennial population want to be the Virtuous Generation enlisted in an international army of 'social justice warriors' fighting evil white male capitalist Christians, but I’m skeptical. The failed liberal internationalism of Jurgen Habermas has finally run out of oppressed minorities to save from systemic oppression. Yes, they aspire to virtue but are without compass or portfolio. Worse, their parents and teachers keep them infantile with little drive, fewer skills, failed education, compiled loan debt, ‘selfie’ guided, with no real understanding of what it means to work and build a success from their individuality. It's not that liberal storm troopers are uneducated. It's that they're only educated to believe what their professors profess. They are not taught to examine and question what those professors profess. They are only trained parrots, not educated thinkers and doers. No wonder they want marriage without children. We agree on that. Infants having children is a bad idea.

This video clip shows only a minority of college student infantile behavior on campus today. Most students want a good life through the merit of their hard work and study. Wanting is good, but having the principles, value, skills, and drive to get is another matter. The point is, this video would be impossible to document in 1960.

Source: ReasonTV

Published on Dec 8, 2015

The faculty council at Occidental College is considering instituting a system for students to report microaggressions perpetrated against them by faculty members or other students.

“Were you in the service?” That was a typical ice-breaker question to ask when meeting a young adult in the 1950’s. If you couldn't answer in the affirmative, you had better have a good yarn to spin to save your social standing. WW II made adults out of children on the battlefield for most men and in the arsenal factories for most women. ‘Service’ to your country was assumed for the young and able-bodied of both sexes. This service was noble. It defeated the absolute, objective, totalitarian evil of 1940’s Japan, Italy and Germany. Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation knew empirically that absolute good and absolute evil existed on the battlefield. In the delirium that followed WW II those who survived and started families set themselves to the goal; “I want my kids to have it better than I did when I was growing up.” I can still hear those words from my childhood.

Little did they know that their well earned and well-intentioned sentiment would produce three generations of progressive brats with very diminishing numbers of adults. Slowed only by the Korean War of the 1950’s, and then the Vietnam War of the 1960’s and 70’s the gap between child and adult steadily increased to where we are today The Infantilized Generation desperately seeking virtue in all the wrong places.

For all its immorality, horror and inhumanity, war teaches valuable virtues, skills and disciplines that now have virtually vanished from today’s sophomores. Here’s letter from a fellow 1956 young adult. Compare it with today’s infantilized adult list of 'gimmes'

Military Service Builds Character: By Bill Shaw

(Published November 10, 2008)

As I make my run this morning, the strains of the “Marines Hymn” will echo through my head on this 233rd birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. Throughout the world, Marines will celebrate the occasion.

I attribute my physical fitness discipline, in part, to my time in the Marines. I also learned teamwork, racial tolerance, and brotherhood.

I joined the Marine Reserves unit in Shreveport, La., at 17 with the permission of my parents just before I began my senior year in high school in 1956. Then, my peers and I had the military draft to face. The Marines took only volunteers. I planned on going on active duty after I finished college.

Like many of the 18-year-old college freshmen I taught at Brazosport College, I was immature and unprepared for the self-discipline required to be successful in college. I flunked out of college after three months. With seemingly no future, I exercised my option to go to boot camp and active duty in the Marines.

In boot camp, we ran everywhere. We ran to get in shape. We were required to study our guide books. We were tested in the classroom and on the obstacle course. We learned teamwork and respect for our fellow recruits. As a southerner from the segregated South, I had never been around African-Americans. The Marine Corps was integrated. Black youngsters were in my platoon, and many drill instructors were black. I learned to live with Hispanics and youngsters from all over America. I learned racial and ethnic tolerance, something I might not have learned otherwise.

In the three months of boot camp and the following six weeks of individual combat training that every Marine must complete no matter what his assignment, troop leaders stressed physical fitness, personal discipline and teamwork.

When I finished my tour of active duty, I returned to civilian life a man rather than a boy. I went to work as a truck driver and warehouse roustabout with a second job as a grocery clerk and began college again and finished my degree.

In my 30s, I fell victim to a self-destructive lifestyle. I dug deep to resurrect the discipline and a physical fitness regimen taught in the Marines, still there after 20 years.

What our American youth need in this era of morbid obesity and addiction to the computer and video games is something to snap them out of their self-destructive lifestyles.

Bill

(source: http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?73668-Military-service-builds-character )

The University of Colorado at Denver lists 21 skills, abilities, and character building strengths to military service. All of these are valuable to the person and to society, especially employers:

· Leadership Training

· Ability to work as a team member and team leader

· Ability to Get Along with and Work with All Types of People

· Ability to Work Under Pressure and to Meet Deadlines

· Ability to Give and Follow Directions

· Certified Drug-Free with an Honorable Discharge

· Security Clearances

· Systematic Planning and Organization

· Emphasis on Safety

· Familiarity with Records and Personnel Administration

· Ability to Conform to Rules and Structure

· Flexibility and Adaptability

· Self-Direction

· Educated

· Initiative

· Work Habits

· Standards of Quality and Commitment to Excellence

· Global Outlook

· Client and Service-Oriented

· Specialized Advanced Training

· Concerned About the Community and Family Environment

(source:http://www.nvti.ucdenver.edu/resources/resourcelibrary/pdfs/strengths.pdf )

Infantilized adults are not interested in acquiring these character traits. They want comfort but not debate. They want license but not freedom. They want income but not work. They want relationships but not sacrifice. They are libertarian but vote Democrat. They have data without knowledge and opinions without wisdom. They have feelings without temperaments. They actually think clicking 'like' on social media is taking action. They don't say the 'n-word', but cheer when their President uses it because he's black, and, therefore righteous.

Most of our college and university students are not being educated because they want to remain infantilized. Why should they strive to be physically fit adults? Adults have to be responsible for their actions. Adults must endure insults, rejection, conflict, and failure. Adults have to succeed on their merit. Adults have to sacrifice their own needs and desires for family and country. Adults must do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. Adults must make the world better than how they found it. Adults must leave the legacy of a moral and political compass for the generations that follow. Adults must constantly ask, what is real, true, good and beautiful? Adults must act on principles and values that never change.

For adult infants, there are no unchangeable principles and values. Everything has been given to them without any sacrifice on their part. All their troubles are the fault of the wealthy 1%, George Bush and God. Why should they believe America is exceptional? Neither they nor their parents every did anything to make America exceptional. When infants raise infants you get infants instead of adults.

Can any rational observer deny that our present culture of political correctness, cultural relativity, and rabid atheism are the logical results of a collapse in acknowledging objective truth, individual freedom and transcendent spirituality. Like children in unhappy marriages, the infantilized generation seeks to protect themselves from bickering politicians, incompetent professors and confused clergy. Calls to national ‘service’ no longer resonate with our youth. Sacrifice for others, as the necessary condition for love in all its forms, is replaced by the selfie syndrome, now listed as a psychiatric illness by the American Psychiatric Association this year. JFK’s famous “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” gets a shrug of ,“Why bother, what’s in it for me?”

Social studies professors, with no formal training in reasoning, logic, or evidence crank out imbecility and nonsense monthly to feed an ever-expanding appetite for self-fashioned victimhood to keep their students infantilized. College administrators, ordained in a widget-consumer priesthood, create ‘free-speech-zones’ to restrict First Amendment rights, issue syllabi of ‘trigger warnings’ to faculty further perpetuating the infantilization of students. Burdened by six-figure student loan debt, unable to marry, start a family or even find a job in their degree field, masses of today’s young adults return to living with parents through their 30’s and 40’s. Sold on the promise that they were buying a ‘union card’ for a lucrative career, their university degree in global sociology, eco-feminism, homosexual anthropology or French literature has proven worthless. The smart ones know how to leverage their communication and thinking skills into other fields usually computer technologies and digital marketing. Those who can think, write and speak critically soon learn there will always be a value for their abilities in society.

For the rest, the downward spiral leads to a post-pubescent existence. If their lives don’t make a difference as they did for previous generations, then why should students think their ideas and arguments will make any difference? This partially explains their love of relativism and their political alienation and their temporary infatuation with a 1930’s socialist Senator, Bernie Sanders. He’s unelectable and wrong. No problem. He’s virtuous because he’s against everything with a license for everything.

Since they can’t imagine starting a family carrying crushing student loan debt, why not divorce procreation from the institution of marriage? This partially explains their ‘shrugging’ embrace of homosexual marriage. Marriage equality is another case of mistaken identity. It’s neither marriage nor equality. Who cares? No one. If their professors have stopped defending objective standards of language, truth, logic, and morality, then why should they? This partially explains the ‘I’m offended’ syndrome sustainable by feelings alone. If their parents and professors don’t want them to grow up, then why should they?

A common thread runs through the old infants who commit mass murders over the past 10 years. Their parents cared more about their own self-absorbed lives than making adults of their children. Ping-pong children have raised themselves for two generations now while mommy and daddy left to ‘find themselves’. They could have simply looked in the bathroom mirror or into the empty bedrooms of their children down the hall.

Look how that turned out.