Yes came here to say the same thing - porcupines absolutely climb trees. Literally just google "porcupines in trees" to see hundreds of images. (And sure, that's not the point of the exercise, but it would help to have an example that made sense.)
Interesting topics as always Luc and I enjoyed reading this.
I don’t know what to believe about the boomers as I am on the tail end but my parents were not in the least bit progressive nor were my grandparents. My parents were both immigrants to Canada after the 2nd world war in 1952 my British father was 36 and my German mother was 26 and they met in 1956 both renting rooms at the same boarding house in Vancouver.
I was very happy and had a great childhood, life was good until we had to move out of our good old established neighbourhood into a nouveau riche one when my dad got sick and so our house setup had to change. Everything changed then and I was heavily influenced and I turned into a nightmare rebellious teenager. By 17 however I was already beginning to appreciate my so called stodgy old fashioned parents and fully did appreciate them by age 19. People had to grow up a lot faster and a lot younger back then.
I do remember the hash, the lsd, the mescaline and the mda all being first introduced around age 12-13, my first concert was Deep Purple haha with Smoke on the Water my fav song and I loved Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven and Classical Gas. I learned to play on acoustic guitar and I loved partying and getting high. By 19 I was all grown up in my mind, changed my life completely, moved to a different province, and began my grownup life and I valued my parents deeply all of my life. I never graduated high school or made it to university, had to work full time to support myself by then!
Do I fit your idea of a boomer Luc? I value love, family, close friends and freedom to live the way I want far more than material wealth or possessions and I’ve always been this way. We have family members who are boomers who do value their material wealth and possessions and don’t care much about others but we aren’t all like that thank goodness lol!
The narrative says the people who created our current reality are boomers. The reality is that the boomers were the first generation who were indoctrinated by the people who actually created it.
This video does a good job of explaining who those people were and how it was (and still is) being done.
The people who indoctrinated the boomers were associated with the Frankfurt school and the Tavistock Institute. Likewise, if you look into the people who started the movements associated with the Sixties... feminism, civil rights, the counterculture, the so-called sexual revolution, and so on... you will find that most were born before the baby boom. For example, the riot at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago is associated with the boomers, and yet the youngest member of the Chicago 7 was born in 1940 and the oldest was born in 1915. None of them were born during the post war baby boom.
("Boomer" refers to anyone who was born during the years of 1946 to 1964, the oldest being twenty-two and the youngest being just four years old in 1968.)
Seems to me that It would be more accurate to say the "Beat Generation" (the beat movement) created our current reality, but then they're considered part of the so-called "greatest generation", and for some reason those who are still indoctrinating us have decided to make the boomers the scapegoat for all that is wrong with this postmodern world.
That said, I think creating generational identities is an artificial construct that is used to keep us divided and controlled. It's nonsense that should be ignored.
My thought too as I was reading this. If we are to invent names for generations (which I also think is silly) then I would say the ‘boomers’ were absolutely ruined by the horrible progressive ideas coming from those old enough to be their parents and grandparents: promiscuous sex, illegal drugs and rock and roll were thrust onto my generation as part of the long march through the institutions- boomers absolutely weren’t running those institutions, being, as you say very young children or very young, gullible adults during the 1960s - 1980s. I am a ‘boomer’ born 1961, I have lived around boomers all my life. We were not responsible, but we were very badly educated on the whole, and subjected to extreme, war-grade propaganda through music, film and television, and yes, even novels.
I am a little confused by the porcupine/monkey example. Are the items in list mislabeled, or are they in the wrong order?
All monkeys climb trees; [OK]
The porcupine is a monkey; [obviously wrong]
The porcupine climbs trees. [obvious nonsense]
Porcupines climb trees. I saw one up a tree yesterday. Otherwise great article.
Yes came here to say the same thing - porcupines absolutely climb trees. Literally just google "porcupines in trees" to see hundreds of images. (And sure, that's not the point of the exercise, but it would help to have an example that made sense.)
Interesting topics as always Luc and I enjoyed reading this.
I don’t know what to believe about the boomers as I am on the tail end but my parents were not in the least bit progressive nor were my grandparents. My parents were both immigrants to Canada after the 2nd world war in 1952 my British father was 36 and my German mother was 26 and they met in 1956 both renting rooms at the same boarding house in Vancouver.
I was very happy and had a great childhood, life was good until we had to move out of our good old established neighbourhood into a nouveau riche one when my dad got sick and so our house setup had to change. Everything changed then and I was heavily influenced and I turned into a nightmare rebellious teenager. By 17 however I was already beginning to appreciate my so called stodgy old fashioned parents and fully did appreciate them by age 19. People had to grow up a lot faster and a lot younger back then.
I do remember the hash, the lsd, the mescaline and the mda all being first introduced around age 12-13, my first concert was Deep Purple haha with Smoke on the Water my fav song and I loved Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven and Classical Gas. I learned to play on acoustic guitar and I loved partying and getting high. By 19 I was all grown up in my mind, changed my life completely, moved to a different province, and began my grownup life and I valued my parents deeply all of my life. I never graduated high school or made it to university, had to work full time to support myself by then!
Do I fit your idea of a boomer Luc? I value love, family, close friends and freedom to live the way I want far more than material wealth or possessions and I’ve always been this way. We have family members who are boomers who do value their material wealth and possessions and don’t care much about others but we aren’t all like that thank goodness lol!
The narrative says the people who created our current reality are boomers. The reality is that the boomers were the first generation who were indoctrinated by the people who actually created it.
This video does a good job of explaining who those people were and how it was (and still is) being done.
https://rumble.com/v5czaz8-mike-williams-on-the-ptpop-podcast-cultural-marxism-and-pop-culture-aug-202.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
I’m not sure there’s any difference. Sounds like two different ways of saying the same thing
The people who indoctrinated the boomers were associated with the Frankfurt school and the Tavistock Institute. Likewise, if you look into the people who started the movements associated with the Sixties... feminism, civil rights, the counterculture, the so-called sexual revolution, and so on... you will find that most were born before the baby boom. For example, the riot at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago is associated with the boomers, and yet the youngest member of the Chicago 7 was born in 1940 and the oldest was born in 1915. None of them were born during the post war baby boom.
("Boomer" refers to anyone who was born during the years of 1946 to 1964, the oldest being twenty-two and the youngest being just four years old in 1968.)
Seems to me that It would be more accurate to say the "Beat Generation" (the beat movement) created our current reality, but then they're considered part of the so-called "greatest generation", and for some reason those who are still indoctrinating us have decided to make the boomers the scapegoat for all that is wrong with this postmodern world.
That said, I think creating generational identities is an artificial construct that is used to keep us divided and controlled. It's nonsense that should be ignored.
My thought too as I was reading this. If we are to invent names for generations (which I also think is silly) then I would say the ‘boomers’ were absolutely ruined by the horrible progressive ideas coming from those old enough to be their parents and grandparents: promiscuous sex, illegal drugs and rock and roll were thrust onto my generation as part of the long march through the institutions- boomers absolutely weren’t running those institutions, being, as you say very young children or very young, gullible adults during the 1960s - 1980s. I am a ‘boomer’ born 1961, I have lived around boomers all my life. We were not responsible, but we were very badly educated on the whole, and subjected to extreme, war-grade propaganda through music, film and television, and yes, even novels.