An English Boomer on the Boomer Generation:
We were differentiating ourselves from our parents--the denizens of a worn-down, seemingly defeated post-war generation, a crumbling empire, burdened with ancient and unexamined premises, weighed down by old songs and bored with ancient psalms, eager to cast off the dreary dross we associated with the glum burdens of adulthood. By rejecting our parents' half-hearted beliefs, and refusing ourselves to be parents, we were staving off in our own minds the march of time, the fact of aging, the grim biological fact of our own mortality. By remaining forever rebellious adolescents, we imagined that we need never grow old and die. Having children in itself is in some sense an admission that we must replace ourselves--because we were replaceable. And that is something our narcissistic generation could not admit. And so we didn't. Peter Hitchens The Rage Against God.
It's amazing who different two brothers can be, isn't it? Even scripture holds profound examples of brothers who are complete opposites. Eternal rest grant unto him, oh Lord. Let the perpetual light shiny upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
So many times, when I see hordes of the "rebellious" ones, both young and decaying, and I can only sigh this truth: One day, you will still meet The Maker, whether you like it or not! This ego-centric culture we are inundated in is committing suicide precisely because we have children masquerading as adults, and adults masquerading as children, men masquerading as women and women masquerading as men. It is my own personal belief that this intentional blurring of reality is self-defeating, dangerous, and based in evil. Thank you for bringing the quote forward.
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