The poo generation
By Pamela
Geller
WND.com
When future anthropologists study America in the
21st century and its rapid decline, they will no
doubt better understand its code of values (or lack
thereof) by examining the symbols and ideas that
captured the spirit of the time – the things that we
held dear.
In every generation, there are icons that sum up
its core values – not official ones, but symbols
that really mean something to people: Rosie the
Riveter, the American flag, Elvis Presley, the
motorcycle jacket, the defeatist “peace sign” and
now the tyrannical “Coexist” bumper sticker. There
are symbols that sum up the zeitgeist of a time, a
generation.
The popular emoticon found on phones today, of a
happily smiling pile of excrement, is just that. It
best exemplifies the low state of the world, of the
culture, and of America itself in the age of the
primitive. It signifies America’s rapid decay in the
wake of the left’s decades-long war on Americanism,
freedom and individual rights. The absence of
morality – and by morality, I mean a code of values
– has led to an absence of the good. And an
abundance of poo.
Ayn Rand wrote that a nation’s culture is the sum
of the intellectual achievements of individual men,
which their fellow citizens have accepted in whole
or in part, and which have influenced the nation’s
way of life. What’s the sum of America’s influence
and philosophy? Poo.
Post-9/11 America, and especially America in the
Obama presidency, is a different world from America
as she was before Obama, and before the left started
its long march to destroy this nation. America today
is increasingly anti-freedom, anti-truth,
anti-ideas, anti-capitalism – anti-reason. A nation
built on a morality of reason has all but abandoned
its foundational principles.
Public schools and academia produce zombies –
goose-steppers like the Hitler Youth – who are
militant and violent in their imposition of the
leftist/Islamic agenda. And when they do it, they
congratulate themselves about how they have stood up
against “fascism” and “intolerance,” when the
intolerant fascists are they themselves.
Intellectually, young Americans are the most docile
conformists, no matter how vocally and
self-righteously they declare themselves free. They
have accepted as dogma all the philosophical beliefs
of their elders of the hard left without question or
exploration. A continuing negation of their
philosophy of life (or lack thereof) and self.
The culture is ugly. Ugly as poo. The music is
ugly, violent and misogynistic. Every crime drama
and suspense series is rife with the most
unimaginable gore. “Game of Thrones,” “Law and Order
(Sex Crimes),” “American Horror Story” – they’re all
devoid of humanity and morality. Devoid of goodness.
It’s a cultural rout. It’s not that the line between
good and evil has been blurred – it’s nonexistent.
We are living in a cultural free-for-all, or more
accurately, a free fall.
I was watching a movie not long ago, a dated ’50s
musical short on Turner Classic Movies. Something
silly with the rock-and-roll impresario Alan Freed.
It was bursting with life. The kids in the room
wanted me to put on something gory, negative, dark
and I said, no, no, watch this, this is great stuff
– this is America. And one of the teens replied, no
it’s not; that’s from when America was happy. And
that struck me, hit me like a ton of bricks. The
left has worked so hard to make us miserable, and it
has succeeded.
Pain, blame, victimhood are the ideals. When
Pharrell performed his confection of a tune “Happy”
at the Grammys, he was compelled to turn it into a
dirge. A bright, happy, sparkling little jewel of a
tune was accompanied by ugly political rhetoric and
costume, #handsup, hoodies, and a porter/bellman
costume for Pharrell.
“Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy –
a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not
clash with any of your values and does not work for
your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from
your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power,
not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving
values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but
of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a
rational man, the man who desires nothing but
rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values
and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”
That’s from John Galt’s speech in “Atlas Shrugged.”
Has America ever been farther from that ideal?
What better icon is there
for such a culture of terror than a pile of dung
with a smiley face? It’s not just on phones; it’s on
jewelry and shoes at Bloomingdales and Bergdorf
Goodman. A ring featuring this image goes for $500,
shoes for $340. It’s beloved.
A culture that would love such a thing is
incapable of true humanity and love. Hollywood is
incapable of writing or producing a “Casablanca.” It
can’t even write a decent adult romance. Porn,
there’s plenty of. Love? Not so much if at all.
There are no adults anymore – just petulant children
who know nothing but to scream that they know
everything and to heap contempt on anyone who
doesn’t subscribe to their liberal fascism. Logic
and facts are scorned and derided; myths (global
warning, “Islamophobia”) and feelings are held up as
fact and science.
If you had to boil the culture down to its
essential oils, it would be the recent Oscars – oh,
how that once mighty American art genre has fallen.
American traitor Edward Snowden got an Oscar;
American hero Chris Kyle got the middle finger. Even
the traitorous far-left journalist Glenn Greenwald
got an Oscars shout-out. Of course Hollywood would
reward vicious traitors. There was no way the
Hollywood establishment was going to give an Oscar
to Clint Eastwood after he so delightfully skewered
Obama’s empty chair. And their disdain for
Americanism and the military is infused in
everything they churn out.
Sharing their disdain for America is Jon Stewart,
to whom they should have given the “Most Disgusting
Jew on the Planet Award.” No contest. After Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ground-breaking
speech to Congress last week, Stewart scoffed at the
many standing ovations Netanyahu received as the
“longest bl-wjob a Jewish man has ever received.”
This vicious traitor, smug and self-righteous,
has long been working for the other side under the
guise of comedy. Vile. Jon Stewart defines
self-loathing Jew. But that’s not enough. He means
to take us down with him.
He is leaving Comedy Central, thankfully. But
don’t get too happy; they’ll turn the show over to
another leftist radical. When does Dennis Miller or
someone like that get an HBO or Comedy Central gig?
The cultural landscape is under siege by these
killers.
And what’s next for Stewart? Politics, I fear.
As if Israel didn’t have enough problems …
Ayn Rand said, “There are two aspects of man’s
existence which are the special province and
expression of his sense of life: love and art.” Both
of which have all but been extinguished in the era
of amoralism – reflected in cultural rot and the
exaltation of the crank.
This is where we are now. In the poo generation.
Pamela Geller | Email | Archive
Pamela Geller is the
publisher of
AtlasShrugs.com and the author of
the WND Books title
"Stop the Islamization of
America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance."