Boomers were used, or 'weaponized,' to engineer society - not in a good way - to a degree that was more successful than any other generation.
For one thing the means to do so were available to a degree not available to previous generations, like television and radio etc., but the idea that there was something more inherently evil about boomers is ridiculous. We are all cut from the same sinful and fallen humanity.
Proof is the fact that the 'me' or hippie boomer generation was built on the foundations of jazz (see Henry Ford's condemnation of jazz) in the 1920s and blues of the 1930s and 1940s and then rock and roll in the 1950s.
Preachers and ministers of every generation condemned and raged against these forms of music (regardless of one's own personal views) and behold, we now have 'rap' (is it music?) and the voices that once were so loud and so prominent against those earlier manifestations of music are now dead in the streets.
>And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey:
Jazz is nigger music. So is blues and rock-and-roll. Those white men and women who condemned it and warned against it were right. It is part of the process that led us to where we are today, as whites -- weak, ignorant, easily led, fearful, soft, useless.
Exactly. But we should admit, it is desirable to the baser part of man, of all of us, and it's not easy to extricate one's self from the allurement of these carnal 'songs' and 'music.' It's temptation, one of the (music, especially this baser sort) strongest temptations ever in the experience of man.
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