{"id":83879,"date":"2022-11-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83879"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:48:29","slug":"expectations-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83879","title":{"rendered":"Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve always detested &#8220;Generational&#8221; politics.  Among all the things that divide us as a nation, artificial, externally-defined demographic trends have to be the dumbest of all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, a huge chunk of the population perceives them &#8211; and perception is reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Hogg &#8211; like many &#8220;prog&#8221; human message bots before and many more to come &#8211; repeats a set of chanting points that years of indoctrination have inflicted on a disproportionate share of Generation Zs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhogg111\/status\/1592157056303534080\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among all the ideas that are sapping the vitality of American civilization, there may be few more corrosive than the devaluation of the term &#8220;right&#8221;.   To much of GenZ, the term is interchangeable with &#8220;virtues&#8221; at best, &#8220;stuff we want&#8221; at worst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notion that inalienable rights come with ineluctible responsibilities eludes many of all generations &#8211; but Millennials and Zeepers appear to be the most vocal in imposing their misapprehension on the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a Zeep and reading this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There is no more &#8220;right not to be shot&#8221; (or to &#8220;Go to school and survive&#8221;) than there is a &#8220;right not to have a car crash&#8221; . There is a right to live &#8211; with a concomitant responsibility and moral imperative to see to your safety, and the safety of those you&#8217;re responsible for (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69607\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"69607\">responsibility that law enforcement at Parkland fell dismally short at<\/a>). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You desire peace and tranquility &#8211; but it&#8217;s not an inalienable right.  It can, indeed, be taken away arbitrarily and horrifically.  One has a responsibility as an adult to maintain both of them &#8211; neither is guaranteed in anyway in the real world. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope that helps.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always detested &#8220;Generational&#8221; politics. Among all the things that divide us as a nation, artificial, externally-defined demographic trends have to be the dumbest of all. Still, a huge chunk of the population perceives them &#8211; and perception is reality. David Hogg &#8211; like many &#8220;prog&#8221; human message bots before and many more to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83897,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83879\/revisions\/83897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}