Vox Popoli: Mailvox: the endless greed of the Grasshoppers

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Vox Popoli: Mailvox: the endless greed of the Grasshoppers (voxday.blogspot.com)

Anyone who simply can't understand why the younger generations despise the Boomers need only read this email I received recently. Can you honestly read it and say you're even a little bit surprised to learn how things went south? It sounds as if the grandparents knew how awful their Boomer children were, but failed to sufficiently account for the full extent of their wickedness and greed that is all too typical of the Boomer generation.

> I just wanted to thank you for the unique insight into “Boomer” mentality, as I never quite understood where the false sense of grandiosity or entitlement came from, but have been acutely aware of how this sense of entitlement has even found its way into the behaviour of Boomers who profess even the most “conservative” and “traditional” values. Your recent posts have allowed me to understand the behaviour of my Father, Mother, Aunts, and Uncles.

> When my Grandparents passed away unexpectedly two years ago, we discovered that they put their entire estate into a trust for their grandchildren (“The Grandchildren”). In the simplest explanation, the terms of the trusts required that the income generated by the trust assets be distributed initially to my mother and her siblings (“The Children”) for five (5) years, at which point, the income and the assets, would be transferred to The Grandchildren so that we might, in the words of the trust, “settle our debts, raise our children, and carry on the legacy of the family.” This inheritance was unexpected.

> Since the death of my grandparents, life for The Grandchildren has been a living nightmare; The Children have taken the Estate to court and have, it appears, successfully invalidated the trust. To justify their actions to The Grandchildren, The Children have essentially argued that they planned their retirement on what they would be inheriting from their parents, despite the fact that they are all either very comfortable financially or objectively wealthy. My uncle actually asked me, “what is more important, my ability to pay off my house before I am 65 or your able to pay off your house when you have just started your career and have 40+ years of work ahead of you.”

> I believe that The Children’s decades of materialism, multiple divorces, frivolous spending, and general arrogance have left them thinking that they are owed this, simply by virtue of their belief that what their parents owned is theirs. My parents, while promoting traditional morals and ethics, Christianity, conservative values, a “family-first” mentality, and demanding that we all go to college, refused to pay for our education, assist us with our home purchase, or any other expense after we were 18 years-old. None of my cousins' educations were financed by my Aunts and Uncles because “we’d all appreciate it more if we paid for it ourselves.” I don’t doubt that this is correct, but we’re now all saddled with debt for an education that they always told us we needed, most of us cannot afford to buy our own homes, and all of us are shocked and confused by the actions of our parents.

> This greed, and the associated anger, was turned upon The Grandchildren. Even though we are not permitted to agree to invalidate the terms of the Trust, we are now seen as the enemy. I have lost my parents to this greed, this arrogance, and this evil that they cultivated; now I have to fight the bitterness that I feel towards all of The Children for what they are putting us through, for the fact that I cannot expose my own children to the vitriol that they espouse, or the anger that is now percolating; it has been 18 months since I saw, or spoke, to my parents, because I choose not to be vilified, demeaned, or verbally abused.

> The Children have always been greedy, self-important, and materialistic; now I know that we are not alone carrying this cross. I am only saddened by the fact that my children lost their grandparents the same day I lost mine.

> *Anyone who simply can't understand why the younger generations despise the Boomers need only read this email I received recently. Can you honestly read it and say you're even a little bit surprised to learn how things went south? It sounds as if the grandparents knew how awful their Boomer children were, but failed to sufficiently account for the full extent of their wickedness and greed that is all too typical of the Boomer generation.* >> I just wanted to thank you for the unique insight into “Boomer” mentality, as I never quite understood where the false sense of grandiosity or entitlement came from, but have been acutely aware of how this sense of entitlement has even found its way into the behaviour of Boomers who profess even the most “conservative” and “traditional” values. Your recent posts have allowed me to understand the behaviour of my Father, Mother, Aunts, and Uncles. >> When my Grandparents passed away unexpectedly two years ago, we discovered that they put their entire estate into a trust for their grandchildren (“The Grandchildren”). In the simplest explanation, the terms of the trusts required that the income generated by the trust assets be distributed initially to my mother and her siblings (“The Children”) for five (5) years, at which point, the income and the assets, would be transferred to The Grandchildren so that we might, in the words of the trust, “settle our debts, raise our children, and carry on the legacy of the family.” This inheritance was unexpected. >> Since the death of my grandparents, life for The Grandchildren has been a living nightmare; The Children have taken the Estate to court and have, it appears, successfully invalidated the trust. To justify their actions to The Grandchildren, The Children have essentially argued that they planned their retirement on what they would be inheriting from their parents, despite the fact that they are all either very comfortable financially or objectively wealthy. My uncle actually asked me, “what is more important, my ability to pay off my house before I am 65 or your able to pay off your house when you have just started your career and have 40+ years of work ahead of you.” >> I believe that The Children’s decades of materialism, multiple divorces, frivolous spending, and general arrogance have left them thinking that they are owed this, simply by virtue of their belief that what their parents owned is theirs. My parents, while promoting traditional morals and ethics, Christianity, conservative values, a “family-first” mentality, and demanding that we all go to college, refused to pay for our education, assist us with our home purchase, or any other expense after we were 18 years-old. None of my cousins' educations were financed by my Aunts and Uncles because “we’d all appreciate it more if we paid for it ourselves.” I don’t doubt that this is correct, but we’re now all saddled with debt for an education that they always told us we needed, most of us cannot afford to buy our own homes, and all of us are shocked and confused by the actions of our parents. >> This greed, and the associated anger, was turned upon The Grandchildren. Even though we are not permitted to agree to invalidate the terms of the Trust, we are now seen as the enemy. I have lost my parents to this greed, this arrogance, and this evil that they cultivated; now I have to fight the bitterness that I feel towards all of The Children for what they are putting us through, for the fact that I cannot expose my own children to the vitriol that they espouse, or the anger that is now percolating; it has been 18 months since I saw, or spoke, to my parents, because I choose not to be vilified, demeaned, or verbally abused. >> The Children have always been greedy, self-important, and materialistic; now I know that we are not alone carrying this cross. I am only saddened by the fact that my children lost their grandparents the same day I lost mine.

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Carnold, thanks for the personal story about the boomers. I do think it is somewhat characteristic of a wider economic conflict between boomers and their kids.

Im sure you wont have trouble finding people on this site to agree with the conclusions youve drawn.

I just feel that the underlying problem here is not really the boomers. Boomers didn’t decide to be selfish assholes any more than we did. They are basically genetically identical to us, the white ones any way. So the only way you can explain the differences are the culture they were subjected to, relative to ours. We are not more virtuous than them. They are not likely to be “more greedy” than us, they are us, if we were born in 1950.

So what’s different? Economics. They were sold a compact that if they were good christians and went to school and college and got a job and a mortgage and took care of their kids and voted for the right people, that they would get to have pleasant, prosperous and relatively free lives, and at 65 they would get to “go to heaven” and live off the government — basically end-of-life socialism. To them, this seemed like a fair bargain to them and they held up their end of the deal— they deserve what’s been promised to them. They don’t understand that much of the prosperity they enjoyed they didn’t really earn and that it was borrowed on the work of future generations. They think this not because they are stupid or greedy but because they are not economists. Its complicated.

We grew entitlements and government bureacracy and a lot of other “private” bureacracies around health care and real estate and investment and education which seemed to work for a time. The voting system seemed somewhat responsive to the will of the people. It “worked” for them. So they assume that the same institutions will work for us as well. They don’t understand the the GDP is fake and gay. They dont understand that they rode the bubble and we are fucked. It all seems to have worked logically for them and they don’t understand what we are doing wrong. They are not faced with the same trade offs. In the end they may be euthanized prematurely by some commie apparatchik hospital social worker— at that point they may begin to suspect that things have not worked out quite right. But they may be too old to learn that many of their assumptions of how the world works were an illusion and that their prosperity was bought on credit not real earned wealth.

Guess what. Its not their fault. They are the victims of disinformation.

Jews corrupt cultural information. It’s what they do and they do it to survive. It is their life strategy. That does not just apply to cultural information like moral values or the justice system or education. They corrupt economic information. Whites are historically good at producing wealth and trading fairly with each other. Jews used the fed and the national debt and the bureacracy to destroy our functional healthy market system and fill it with economic dysinformation. Many boomers still don’t understand that our economy is now too corrupt to be considered “real” at this point.

They are operating on a false premise which seemed to make sense for them over their lifetime. It is really not their fault. They were brain washed.

We should have never abandoned the notion that kids and parents were free agents after 18 years and that we should all move around the country and away from family because the government and other institutions would be there to depend on. But white people are a trusting lot.

What is needed now is an ideological and social revolution and whites must lead. It will be a mental break from the assumptions we relied on in the 20th century. I see it as a break comparable to the protestant reformation. Im not trying to take a side on that movement, just convey that there must be a reformation in our personal behaviors that will touch every aspect of our lives. This must be a radical change in our economic lives to reestablish our mental and moral independence. Everyone will not be on board and it will require sacrifice. We should view the mistakes that boomers and other previous generations made as a slide toward degeneracy and corruption, economic and moral, but we can also have compassion for our boomers who have been deceived. Had they understood, they would not have chosen this path. But economics is really complicated and jews are really sneaky.

Carnold, thanks for the personal story about the boomers. I do think it is somewhat characteristic of a wider economic conflict between boomers and their kids. Im sure you wont have trouble finding people on this site to agree with the conclusions youve drawn. I just feel that the underlying problem here is not really the boomers. Boomers didn’t decide to be selfish assholes any more than we did. They are basically genetically identical to us, the white ones any way. So the only way you can explain the differences are the culture they were subjected to, relative to ours. We are not more virtuous than them. They are not likely to be “more greedy” than us, they *are* us, if we were born in 1950. So what’s different? Economics. They were sold a compact that if they were good christians and went to school and college and got a job and a mortgage and took care of their kids and voted for the right people, that they would get to have pleasant, prosperous and relatively free lives, and at 65 they would get to “go to heaven” and live off the government — basically end-of-life socialism. To them, this seemed like a fair bargain to them and they held up their end of the deal— they deserve what’s been promised to them. They don’t understand that much of the prosperity they enjoyed they didn’t really earn and that it was borrowed on the work of future generations. They think this not because they are stupid or greedy but because they are not economists. Its complicated. We grew entitlements and government bureacracy and a lot of other “private” bureacracies around health care and real estate and investment and education which seemed to work for a time. The voting system seemed somewhat responsive to the will of the people. It “worked” for them. So they assume that the same institutions will work for us as well. They don’t understand the the GDP is fake and gay. They dont understand that they rode the bubble and we are fucked. It all seems to have worked logically for them and they don’t understand what we are doing wrong. They are not faced with the same trade offs. In the end they may be euthanized prematurely by some commie apparatchik hospital social worker— at that point they may begin to suspect that things have not worked out quite right. But they may be too old to learn that many of their assumptions of how the world works were an illusion and that their prosperity was bought on credit not real earned wealth. Guess what. Its not their fault. They are the victims of disinformation. Jews corrupt cultural information. It’s what they do and they do it to survive. It is their life strategy. That does not just apply to cultural information like moral values or the justice system or education. They corrupt economic information. Whites are historically good at producing wealth and trading fairly with each other. Jews used the fed and the national debt and the bureacracy to destroy our functional healthy market system and fill it with economic dysinformation. Many boomers still don’t understand that our economy is now too corrupt to be considered “real” at this point. They are operating on a false premise which seemed to make sense for them over their lifetime. It is really not their fault. They were brain washed. We should have never abandoned the notion that kids and parents were free agents after 18 years and that we should all move around the country and away from family because the government and other institutions would be there to depend on. But white people are a trusting lot. What is needed now is an ideological and social revolution and whites must lead. It will be a mental break from the assumptions we relied on in the 20th century. I see it as a break comparable to the protestant reformation. Im not trying to take a side on that movement, just convey that there must be a reformation in our personal behaviors that will touch every aspect of our lives. This must be a radical change in our economic lives to reestablish our mental and moral independence. Everyone will not be on board and it will require sacrifice. We should view the mistakes that boomers and other previous generations made as a slide toward degeneracy and corruption, economic and moral, but we can also have compassion for our boomers who have been deceived. Had they understood, they would not have chosen this path. But economics is really complicated and jews are really sneaky.

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