Compare and contrast two brilliant pieces up on Browser.
This one about the momentous moments leading up to Dwight Eisenhower’s decision to launch the invasion of Normandy – 2,000,000 people (mostly men) ‘poised like a coiled spring’, waiting to surge bravely across the English Channel to attack the well-entrenched Nazi forces.
And then this devastating one, on how modern American parents end up grovelling to get the approval of their odious spoiled children.
What happened?
Yes, it’s easy and mainly right to put it all down to wishy-washy 1960s liberal hippy drivel turbo-boosted relativism with goodly doses of feminism and socialism, all simultaneously attacking the very idea of personal responsibility from all angles day and night, year after year.
But how exactly did it succeed? How do we end up in such an extraordinary transformation: fighting heroic adults producing later generations of smirking adultescents amused by their own ignorance but whining for more handouts?
Yes, it’s easy and mainly right to put it all down to wishy-washy 1960s liberal hippy drivel turbo-boosted relativism with goodly doses of feminism and socialism, all simultaneously attacking the very idea of personal responsibility from all angles day and night, year after year.