by Peter Löcke //
This youth. But so are today's young people. What's wrong with today's youth?
How often did I hear these sayings when I was young? Spoken in head-shaking words. Unspoken in derogatory looks. Because of my clothes, because of my appearance in general, because of the music I listened to. And of course because of my political views. I would never become like those arrogant old farts with their encrusted thinking. That was certain for me. Until the other day. Until the phrase "But so are today's young people" formed in my head for the first time. Ashes on my head. I am ashamed of myself. It seems to be a law of nature after all. My grandfather probably said the same thing to my father. Today's kids will probably say it to their children. And yet something has changed.
In and out, right and wrong, good and bad, politically left or right. This is subject to change, subject to fashion trends, dependent on the zeitgeist. If you try to discard internalized evaluations and thought pigeonholes, there is one constant and this constant is called demarcation. Youth involves setting boundaries, youth involves being rebellious. Sturm und Drang. How easy it was for me to be rebellious when I traveled back in time. When I was 15, I went to the local jeweler to have a medical earring pierced. The jeweler was shocked to discover that I was a boy after all. When I was toying with the idea of getting a tattoo, my father suspected the following according to the exclusion principle: His son will either go to jail or go to sea. Politically? In a rigid Catholic grammar school, I was naturally a left-wing rebel. Because I attended a peace demonstration on a school day and put up a critical flyer on the school notice board, I received an invitation to the principal's office. There I was unmistakably shown the yellow, almost red card. I had become guilty of contact. I was told to distance myself from left-wing ideas. Yes. Contact guilt already existed back then.
Back to today. What has changed? How can a teenager set themselves apart today? Difficult when it comes to outward appearances. What's a walking hormone disorder supposed to do when dad is tattooed and mom is confessedly intimately pierced? Politically, there is still contact guilt. Only more extreme and in a mirror image of my youth. The right is the new left. To exaggerate: A pupil today receives an invitation to the principal's office if they show sympathy for the AfD. For Fridays for Future, on the other hand, the politics teacher organizes the joint bus tour. All my life, I've sympathized with the outsiders. For the dirty kids, the black sheep. But what if the entire flock is made up of black and colored sheep? Then the white sheep becomes the black sheep. When I was 18, I wasn't running around Düsseldorf, I left the church wearing a hammer and sickle shirt. I would probably join the church today in protest. Maybe even with an AfD T-shirt. If only to provoke.
What really worries me is something else. Young people always had dreams, ideals for a better world, had idols who were moving forward. And these idols were a thorn in the side of the powerful. Today's idols are called Greta or Luisa Neubauer. This is the German Greta. Sometimes I want to shake young people awake so that they finally wake up themselves. How rebellious can a Greta be when you know who pays her and who benefits from her? How rebellious can Luisa be when you realize that she has a talk show subscription in the mainstream media? How critical of the state can Antifa be if it is state-funded? How cool can it be to gender-bend when the state encourages you to do so? Jump all you want, but before you jump you have to stand up. And before you get up, you have to wake up. Whether old or young - perhaps someone has read the "Agenda 2030"? The 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations. Mentioned again and again in the Sunday speeches of the world's powerful. This agenda reads like paradise on earth. A climate-neutral, gender-equitable, peaceful world with prosperity for all people on this planet. This agenda could have been penned by me when I was 15 and dreaming of a better world. But it comes from people who are all about power.
But what do I know? My daughter didn't become an impressive young teenager because of me, but because of my wife. If I want to say something meaningfully clever, she says "I'm eating." Also, I would suffer from "ah-el-tee". That means I'm old, she explained to me when I asked. And I'm spooky anyway. Whatever spooky means. She's rebellious and has a mind of her own. Thanks to my wife. I wouldn't get away with saying something like "That must never be questioned". Good child.
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When can children and young people develop freely and what do they need to develop a strong and stable personality?
A loving, stable family that offers protection, security and orientation.
What does it take to be a stable and intact family?
Love in the heart, freedom, self-determination, peaceful values and personal responsibility.
What do you need to be able to defend yourself against aggressors?
Applicable law and legal certainty that is equally binding for everyone and ensures and protects freedom, peace, self-determination and personal responsibility.
Life has always been hard work and always will be.
But a life of servitude,
increases the hardship for all peaceful, self-determined and responsible people to a serious degree
in a world of oppression, bondage, enslavement.
The state as we know it,
will always mercilessly electrify and destroy everything and everyone,
who does not submit to the will of the self-appointed chieftains and to the predetermined rules.
It doesn't matter at all,
which country you look at.
Every state is everywhere with its actors, useful idiots and vicarious agents
the same aggressor against the people.
As long as people do not understand and recognize this
and prefer to let their slaveholders incite and divide them against each other and incite them to fight each other,
allow themselves to be bribed, appropriated and instrumentalized by their slave masters,
for their power interests, violent affinities, delusions and insanities,
instead of fundamentally rejecting slavery in any form
and to rely on voluntary peaceful cooperation,
to reject and ignore every slave owner
and rather turn to their peaceful fellow human beings openly and cooperatively,
there is no positive change in sight.
We have been experiencing this for decades:
- Early childhood external care, which destroys the bond between mother and child
- Indoctrination, dumbing down, forced conformity and conditioning of children and young people in schools and universities
- Destruction of the family, the individual, Christian values, private property, art and culture
- Dissolution of identity, perversion of law, decay of morals, ethics and the end of empathy
Cultural Marxism
Socialism or, more correctly, deconstructionism
Communism
They were never gone.
They were never processed.
They have been raging on for decades.
The power and merciless destruction are becoming increasingly visible and tangible.
But there are always plenty of distractions.
The climate madness/cult. Anyone who is not in favor of it will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The illegal mass migration/cult. Those who are not in favor will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The gender madness/cult. Anyone who is not in favor of it will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The corona craze/cult. Anyone who is not in favor of it will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The Ukraine-Russia conflict/cult. Anyone who is not in favor of war and rearmament will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The new vaccination mania/cult. Anyone who is not in favor will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The new digital control mania/cult. Those who are not in favor will be destroyed socially and existentially!
The list is endless and goes back immensely far into history and already reveals new hysterias, cults and cruelties to come.
People don't seem to understand.
Tragic.
Personally, I'm more worried about the generation of young adults and parents, the Baerbock and Spahn generation. In the first corona winter, when it became apparent how determined they were to bring the planned mass injection to the people, I wondered how old the Nazis actually were when it started. The results of the research and calculations were very surprising: At the end of 1933, after the seizure of power, Mengele was 22, Himmler 33 and Hitler the oldest 44, all the other leaders somewhere in between, Mussolini at 50 already a comparatively old bag! Damn, why didn't I think of that as a schoolboy? Well, I was simply much younger than those mentioned. This perspective has completely changed over the course of my long life. The generation of young adults will shape the children and young people as parents, that much is certain, it's always like that, and it doesn't look like that's a good thing. Our generation, i.e. that of grandparents and already or soon to be pensioners, has to put up with the question of why their own children became what they are.
Why not? As has always been the case in mainstream society, please forgive me, eat, fuck, watch TV. Whether it's digital, analog or something else, I see a reassuring consistency across all generations. Maybe it's a little more blatant today, but everything is the same as it always was. Young people have their everyday role models, parents, teachers, political actors who have dedicated their lives to the immediate gratification of their urges. Not everyone is like that, they may also have children, pupils or citizens who tick a little differently. These are possibly the future high achievers, creatives and experts who can drive a desirable social development. They have always existed, sometimes they have been listened to more, sometimes less. They often gained influence in times of disillusionment, when reality simply became overwhelming after major aberrations. As the saying goes, things have to get worse before they can get better. We can all provide the necessary impetus in the here and now, set an example and be authentic. Children and young people have fine antennae for such things and may be inspired to do the same, not all of them, but more than many of us old people would think. I have hope.
I miss two important emotions in today's youth. Empathy and anger. Both are binding emotions that helped shape my generation.
Wir „Alten“ waren und sind noch immer verbindlich – auch in unverbindlichen Zeiten. Leider haben wir es als Eltern aber versäumt, dies unseren Abkömmlingen bewusst zu machen. Sich jetzt über dieses Verhalten, diese Konformität zu beschweren, hinterlässt bei mir einen bitteren Nachgeschmack.
GENERATION SNOWFLAKE?
Guter Artikel.Der Autor fragt: “ Zurück ins Heute. Was hat sich geändert? Wie kann sich ein Teenager heute abgrenzen?“
A lot has changed for today's generation. In the USA, which is always about 10 years ahead of us in social matters, there is, for example, the term "snowflake generation": wiki writes about this, among other things
„Einordnung und Deutung[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Keir Milburn sieht den Begriff Generation Snowflake als eine Strategie der politisch Rechten, um von sozioökonomischen Ungleichheiten entlang der Generationen abzulenken. Die Millenials-Generation sei wie kaum eine Generation zuvor mit ökonomischen Herausforderungen konfrontiert, so mit sinkenden Löhnen, steigenden Preisen für Wohnraum und in einigen Ländern hohen Schulden durch Studiengebühren. Politisch Rechte würden versuchen, diese ökonomische Schieflage dadurch zu verschleiern, indem man die Ansprüche der jüngeren Generation kritisiert und sie als ungerechtfertigt darstellt.[12]“
I would not see this term as a strategy, but rather as an indication that the generation that grew up in the 50s and 60s was more robust, only knew television with 3 channels (and was not allowed to watch too much of it), did not know Internet game boy and cell phone, etc., and this generation grew up in a reasonably normal social environment and, with desire and aptitude, was able to earn a living with little effort.
As we all know, a lot has changed in this area, and as a result, the people growing up under these economic and social conditions promoted by Big Money are also changing, e.g. with conformity, adaptation, duck-mouthedness, susceptibility to propaganda in the mainstream media, etc.
„Schneeflocke“ als Strategie der Rechten? Darauf muss man erst einmal kommen.
Maybe genderism too? And Judith Butler was an IM of the RIGHT?
„Euch geht es doch einfach nur viel zu gut!“
How much I hated this saying from my mother, which always came from her when she thought our ideas, notions and demands were completely absurd. She often hurled it at me with flashing eyes, with undisguised dislike, almost with contempt in her voice. I probably hated this saying so much because deep down I sensed that she might well be right in some respects. As baby boomers, we were already clearly benefiting from the economic miracle, we only knew peace and security and prosperity. I was born just 20 years after the end of the Second World War, my parents knew about poverty, flight and expulsion, captivity and hunger, and not just from stories. And even if our material prosperity was quite modest - not at all comparable with the present, of course - we were comparatively well off in my generation.
As a child, my mother walked 5 km to school, in all weathers, in all seasons. The family only had one bicycle, which my father, who hadn't learned to read or write, used to get to the farm where he earned his living as a farmhand. The children had to walk - 10 km a day - to attend school, where the teacher still swung the cane vigorously. At the age of 14, my father narrowly escaped the American tanks and walked from the Rhine to Schleswig-Holstein in search of his family, who had fled East Prussia, and swam across the Elbe.
And so we always heard that we were doing far too well when we ranted about a better world. When we were against American imperialism and the NATO double-track decision. Against nuclear power and environmental pollution, against capitalism and exploitation. And so we were still in contact with a generation that literally cleared away the rubble with their bare hands after the war. They taught us that food and clothing cannot be taken for granted, that you can wear your older brother's shoes, because nothing comes from nothing and if you don't make provisions for the winter, you starve. And so we learned that the good things are hard work, the bad things happen by themselves. We also learned that apprenticeships are not master years, that pride comes before a fall and that you should take responsibility for your life.
After us, no one else has heard it in this authenticity, no one else has experienced it in this way.
How can we blame today's youth? Who socialized them, who educated them, shaped them, trained them? How can we blame them for growing up without the experiences we were allowed to have? How are they supposed to learn how to think if we teach them what to think?
The responsibility for this disaster does not lie with the children, not with the youth. The responsibility lies with the parents, the teachers, our society as a whole. We only get what we deserve.
In Ihrer Beschreibung erkenne ich mich selbst und meine Kinder wieder. Die Kinder, die meine heute erwachsenen einst waren jedenfalls. Früher trieb mich manchmal die Sorge um, dass sie es mit Widerspruch und ihrem permanenten Hinterfragen von alles und jedem zu bunt treiben und „anecken“ könnten, obwohl ich sehr oft erkennen konnte, dass sie im Recht waren. Nur die Lehrer waren anderer Ansicht, aber denen fehlten bloß die Argumente, die meine lieben Kleinen hätten überzeugen könnten.
Today, on the other hand, I miss the spirit of contradiction, defiance and the strength/power of questioning. Today I worry because I experience them as reluctant co-streamers for various reasons that are unacceptable to me personally under any circumstances. That makes me sad.
At the end of the 80s, it became apparent that young people would outdo each other in terms of conformity.
Even back then, it was the dream of many young people to get a crisis-proof job in administration.
Today, none of them have the slightest idea what the '68ers stood for.
On the contrary.
People scold stoners while they are taking ecstasy...
What's more, we're already in the 2nd generation of wimps.
Everything is lost anyway.
It hasn't really been any clearer since corona.
Tja dem ist leider so dass Gretchen von den mächtigen benutzt wird und es offensichtlich nicht merkt. Wie sagte ein einstmals bekannter Spitzenpolitiker „Diese Schulschwänzer“ von Fridays for Future…. Und wenn ich dann sehe das Gretchen gesegelt ist um Ressourcen zu sparen, Tschuldigung das kann ich mir das Lachen nicht verkneifen. Auch die Herstellung des Segeltuchs hat sicherlich Ressourcen verbraucht. Es ist gut und richtig das sich die junge Generation Gedanken macht über den blauen Planeten, die Frage ist nur wie. Mir würden tagtäglich hunderte Dinge einfallen die man ändern könnte. Ich würde als erstes das Verteilen von kostenlosen Wochenendzeitungen verbieten, eine Zahnpastatube bedarf keiner Extraumverpackung aus Pappe, zum Einkaufen bedarf es keiner Plastiktüten, wir im Osten hatten die berühmt berüchtigten Mininetze über die man sich nun lustig machen kann oder auch nicht, sie erfüllten ihren Zweck. Manchmal ist der Verpackungsberg von meinen Einkäufen größer, als das tatsächlich Eingekaufte. Tja und Gendern das ist jaaa ganz wichtig. Als ob wir keine anderen Sorgen hätten. Wer denkt sich so einen Schwachsinn aus? Es geht voran in Deutschland!
As the father of a 17-year-old boy, this sounds pretty familiar to me. It's good to know that it's not just me. We can only hope that our offspring have a keen eye for what is happening around them. Sapere aude, as they say in Latin.
Today, the motto is: just don't stand out! Always live and act in line if you want to become something. Just don't step out of line, because you can only be successful within this line. Throw your ideals and what you think is right and good overboard! Only then can you become number 1.
And many, many did exactly the same. They didn't stand out. They didn't bump into anything. They always followed the intended, straight line. They adapted themselves completely. What was the personal benefit?
Viele „kaputte und unglückliche Menschen“, die sehr gerne etwas für die Gesellschaft getan hätten. Nur vielleicht ein wenig anders als in der gewollten „Verhaltensschablone“.
Do we still have the chance to lead a self-determined life? With our own opinions, thoughts and deeds? A happy future?
Hello Germany! I can't hear you!