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| A WORLD WITHOUT FATHERS |
| 2016-02-27 |
| h/t Instapundit Night after night I watch my World War One and World War Two documentaries. I just finished the BBC’s The World at War, 30 hours or so on WWII, surely as fine a piece of work on film as there has ever been. The writers got the Battle of Midway totally confused with the Marianas Turkey Shoot and got quite a bit wrong about Leningrad. But the series in general is magnificent. Laurence Olivier’s narration is subtle beyond belief. His command of the material is stupefyingly potent. ...As my pal Phil says, if you told Europeans in 1910 what the next 35 years held for them they would have thought you insane. Serene France and Belgium turned into slaughterhouses. The Tsar and his family shot down and their bodies so battered as to be unrecognizable. Forty thousand British men murdered by machine gun fire at the Somme in little more than 24 hours. Horror upon horror and then the second act, in which industrial methods were used to kill civilians deemed by a sick "science" to be unworthy of life, in which 80,000 Germans were incinerated in hours in what was, undoubtedly, a good cause. ...As I watched, I used my trusty Google to endlessly study one of my obsessions: why our nonwhite young men relatively are so violent and undisciplined and commit so many crimes and do so badly in school when the ones I meet and work with are smart and pleasant and hard working. The answer I came up with was this: Our country needs a great many things. More stealth bombers. More Marines. More medical care for Veterans and their families. More good teachers. But our most urgent need is for more fathers. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 For the Left the route to power was included the 'Women's Movement' which declared a women needed a man like a fish needed a bicycle. They substituted Big Brother for a father. How did that all work out for you? Who needs real history when the Marxist fantasy is the goal even if it means destroying the civilization and institutions around you as artificial constructs rather than the successful adaptations of groups of humans to not only survive but to flourish. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-02-27 13:48 |