Every now and again I swing by Instapunk, a powerful and unrelenting site which is part of the Boomer Bible phenomenon:

… muddled politics, neither left nor right, designed to confuse and deliberately offend readers

Yup, that peevish and baffled Amazon lead-off review about sums it up. For something a bit more sensible, try this.

The Bible ends with a long and moving passage describing the bewilderment of an old man trying to work out what happened to the values of human decency he grew up with as they sank into a sea of trashy nihilistic relativism. Worth buying for that alone.

Anyway, have a rummage through Instapunk if you are feeling brave and see how Left, Right and everything in between get hammered.

Including, since we have been thinking about the Berlin Wall, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and his 1990 concert at the Wall:

Waters is acting out for us the moral and cultural collapse of the western world that accompanied the Cold War. While Eastern Europe was killing and imprisoning millions of flesh and blood people and using up its entire physical infrastructure, much of the western world was engaged in a process of spiritual suicide whose climactic moment occurs in this very performance: spoiled narcissists who have finally forgotten what freedom is just as it has been procured for a continent and a half of former slaves.

The children of the west have stared into the darkest hours of the twentieth century’s existential terrors and seen that the greatest villain is, uh, the Mom who can’t make everything perfect in our little Universe of One.

Now that’s good.