It’s become fashionable to talk about Boomer cringe. And Millennial cringe.
But Gen X produced a *metric fuck ton* of weapons-grade, atomic cringe (just watch this clip, if you can) that has somehow escaped serious historical scrutiny & nobody talks about it.
That ends now.
After a week of being holed up in his cabin at Ruby Ridge the first thing that Randy Weaver- himself shot, his wife Vicki and son Samuel having already been m*rdered- called out was "Why is the radio calling me a white supremacist when those are not my views?"
By the way, atomized individualism, bootstrapism, the "kids these days" nonsense is antithetical to Americas founding. Securing the blessings of Liberty for the posterity, ie, the children, was central to it. Sacrifices made so kids could have better lives. Adams speaks of it.
The conceit that people in the past were all dumb, gullible rubes to whom we are obviously & profoundly intellectually superior is a defining feature of our own era. It keeps us from grappling in a real way with deep questions about the nature of reality, esp. regarding religion.
obsessed with this painting of christ’s resurrection from the early 1500s… it was painted by matthias grünewald, who was forgotten until the 19th century. only 10 of his paintings survive, most lost in a shipwreck at sea. he was a mysterious loner who had no master or pupils.
Sneako is a good example of a common phenomenon: the racial alien who grows up enjoying a great standard of living in the West, has no reason to feel anything for Whites but gratitude and should be an ideal case of "integration," yet still ends up making resentment of their hosts the core of their worldview.
Sneako grew up to a middle-class family in Connecticut and attended a private school paid for by his immigrant parents, yet he larps as a black New Yorker. He adopted Malcolm X and Andrew Tate as his idols because they were more self-assured mulatto men who seemed to assert an identity outside White cultural norms, and even converted to Islam to imitate them. He has since made his entire justification for his religion that it is the most universal and anti-racist creed, because he is absolutely obsessed with "White supremacy."
He gradually went from red pill slop content to brown clown leftism because the one constant incentive he couldn't resist was the racial justice angle, which like most Muslim immigrants in the West trumps any of the other social values his religion might prescribe.
But like many brown clowns who adopt the language of leftism to articulate their hatred, the mask always eventually comes off and it becomes clear the driving force is his resentment of White civilization and cope for his feelings of inferiority and deracination.
Interestingly if you look at the profile of Islamic terrorists in the West, many are second-generation immigrants who came from middle-class families and lived pretty liberal, degenerate lifestyles before a sudden dramatic conversion – and they are typically driven by the same resentment.