The Age of Obnoxiousness-A new Millenium by Dr. T
(Chapter 3)
With all the crazy events that have been taking place around the"war on terrorism" lately, I've been too busy with the present to get back to my original intent, which was to write "The Age of Obnoxiousness". As stated in earlier chapters, the book is a chronology of our culture from the 1950s to the present. And certainly all that is happening now is a by-product of what was going on then. The birth of "liberalism" in the 1960s was the beginning of a culture change that would forever change the American psyche and decades later would impede our national security. Rather a strong statement you say; well, one need only connect the dots. The liberal mindset of a "free society" means no rules, no judgements, everything is relative, there are no absolutes. This thinking is more than naive, it's void of logic and it's dangerous. A society cannot sustain itself without rules, without a respect for authority and social institutions. When the bar is lowered...so it is that society is lowered. The touchy, feel good world of liberalism where all playing fields are supposedly equal, isn't really equal at all. As the 60s became the 70s and the decades marched on so did liberal agendas. Liberalism was growing up and soon the country was dealing with more than rebellious teens trying to become relevant. The liberal agenda was being marketed, packaged and sold to the masses. This is the time when liberal feminism took hold. Women were tired of being stereotyped as either "sex objets" or "all American Moms". They wanted real careers and they wanted to break through the "glass ceiling". Now I don't deny that the mindset I just described was pretty much the norm in those days and it certainly was atypical for a female to be an executive in a major corporation. But as is the case with most good intentions, this feminist movement took on a life of its own and while it helped to some degree, by the time we reached the 90's it provided more harm than good. For decades the women screamed about equal employment and equal salaries. They wanted it all and invariably they got it. There were commericals about women bringing home the bacon and then frying it up in the pan. So they had their jobs, their kids, their households and their stresses. Stresses because you really CAN'T have it all.
With all the crazy events that have been taking place around the"war on terrorism" lately, I've been too busy with the present to get back to my original intent, which was to write "The Age of Obnoxiousness". As stated in earlier chapters, the book is a chronology of our culture from the 1950s to the present. And certainly all that is happening now is a by-product of what was going on then. The birth of "liberalism" in the 1960s was the beginning of a culture change that would forever change the American psyche and decades later would impede our national security. Rather a strong statement you say; well, one need only connect the dots. The liberal mindset of a "free society" means no rules, no judgements, everything is relative, there are no absolutes. This thinking is more than naive, it's void of logic and it's dangerous. A society cannot sustain itself without rules, without a respect for authority and social institutions. When the bar is lowered...so it is that society is lowered. The touchy, feel good world of liberalism where all playing fields are supposedly equal, isn't really equal at all. As the 60s became the 70s and the decades marched on so did liberal agendas. Liberalism was growing up and soon the country was dealing with more than rebellious teens trying to become relevant. The liberal agenda was being marketed, packaged and sold to the masses. This is the time when liberal feminism took hold. Women were tired of being stereotyped as either "sex objets" or "all American Moms". They wanted real careers and they wanted to break through the "glass ceiling". Now I don't deny that the mindset I just described was pretty much the norm in those days and it certainly was atypical for a female to be an executive in a major corporation. But as is the case with most good intentions, this feminist movement took on a life of its own and while it helped to some degree, by the time we reached the 90's it provided more harm than good. For decades the women screamed about equal employment and equal salaries. They wanted it all and invariably they got it. There were commericals about women bringing home the bacon and then frying it up in the pan. So they had their jobs, their kids, their households and their stresses. Stresses because you really CAN'T have it all.
posted by Dr. T at 11/11/2005 03:30:00 PM
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This Chapter was written by Dr. T in November of '05 but we're just posting it now. Apparently, we goofed and forgot to post it back then. Sorry, Folks.
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