Thank you for these provocative comments, which you obviously spent some time putting together. (If you just dashed these things off, I'm jealous.) Based on your responses I think you'll be interested in some of what I have upcoming. In the meantime here's a link to my author page at Quillette; I think I've done some nice work for them, if I so say so myself:
Our country has historical amnesia. We tried going soft on criminals and other antisocial types in the 60s and got runaway crime waves and social dysfunction in the 70s and 80s until the tough-on-crime and welfare-reform laws and policies got enacted in the 90s, leading to dramatic improvements in quality of life in the cities and incredible reductions in violent crime. But then a new generation thought they knew everything and nobody before their time knew anything at all, so they ignored the lessons of the past and made all the same mistakes from the 60s all over again, except that they went even further with it. And in no time, the same catastrophic consequences returned. It would really be nice to see the imbeciles who championed these disastrous changes face some accountability for it, but these days, the only direction people go when they fail is up, while the regular rubes get stuck with the costs. Hopefully, at the very least, these policies get reversed before they do even more damage.
Your comment is better than my article! I don't usually do rush jobs on "big" stuff like this, but I've been up against it of late. I'm working on something else you might like for Quillette.
The 60's. Yes, I remember all too well. The Cloward-Piven Strategy. The Age of Entitlements. The Great Society. On and on. (Insert Charlie Brown's teachers trombone sound here.)
But this time it's different. There's always been that metaphor of a pendulum swing. No, not this time. There's no pendulum anymore. They destroyed the clock during the 2020 riots.
I recently listened to the great Israeli historian, Benny Morris, talk about the possibility of resolution in the Israel Palestinian conflict. He said he didn't think there was any possibility. It takes guts to be a realist. People don't like realists. They like optimists. Benny Morris is not a cheerleader. I'm not either. I don't see a correction in the future. We've crossed too many lines. Gone too far. We're not getting it back. The neo Marxist are going to have their way, as Marxists always do, and what will follow will be much worse than we see now.
See French Revolution, Bolsheviks, etc... (insert teacher Trombone sound again)
I hope you're wrong, as living under post-Great Reset communism would be a fate worse than death, but there's a compelling case to be made that you are correct. If so, we're still early in the "controlled demolition/destabilization" phase.
Thank you for these provocative comments, which you obviously spent some time putting together. (If you just dashed these things off, I'm jealous.) Based on your responses I think you'll be interested in some of what I have upcoming. In the meantime here's a link to my author page at Quillette; I think I've done some nice work for them, if I so say so myself:
https://quillette.com/author/steve-salerno/
Bookmarked 👍🏽 Thx 🙏🏽
Our country has historical amnesia. We tried going soft on criminals and other antisocial types in the 60s and got runaway crime waves and social dysfunction in the 70s and 80s until the tough-on-crime and welfare-reform laws and policies got enacted in the 90s, leading to dramatic improvements in quality of life in the cities and incredible reductions in violent crime. But then a new generation thought they knew everything and nobody before their time knew anything at all, so they ignored the lessons of the past and made all the same mistakes from the 60s all over again, except that they went even further with it. And in no time, the same catastrophic consequences returned. It would really be nice to see the imbeciles who championed these disastrous changes face some accountability for it, but these days, the only direction people go when they fail is up, while the regular rubes get stuck with the costs. Hopefully, at the very least, these policies get reversed before they do even more damage.
Your comment is better than my article! I don't usually do rush jobs on "big" stuff like this, but I've been up against it of late. I'm working on something else you might like for Quillette.
No, your article was great! Look forward to reading what you write for Quillette!
The 60's. Yes, I remember all too well. The Cloward-Piven Strategy. The Age of Entitlements. The Great Society. On and on. (Insert Charlie Brown's teachers trombone sound here.)
But this time it's different. There's always been that metaphor of a pendulum swing. No, not this time. There's no pendulum anymore. They destroyed the clock during the 2020 riots.
I recently listened to the great Israeli historian, Benny Morris, talk about the possibility of resolution in the Israel Palestinian conflict. He said he didn't think there was any possibility. It takes guts to be a realist. People don't like realists. They like optimists. Benny Morris is not a cheerleader. I'm not either. I don't see a correction in the future. We've crossed too many lines. Gone too far. We're not getting it back. The neo Marxist are going to have their way, as Marxists always do, and what will follow will be much worse than we see now.
See French Revolution, Bolsheviks, etc... (insert teacher Trombone sound again)
Nothing new under the sun.
*Good piece, Steve 👍🏽
I hope you're wrong, as living under post-Great Reset communism would be a fate worse than death, but there's a compelling case to be made that you are correct. If so, we're still early in the "controlled demolition/destabilization" phase.