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The Lost Generation of Tomorrow


Drowning in modern hate, many seek love not knowing what it is or where to look.  Years from now, the lost generation of our times may describe those so saturated by hate they were unable to find love. Not unlike those of past generations who were shattered by war, hate ultimately causes a loss of human identity.  Everything in their life, it will be written, was filtered through their hate, diminishing regular human relations, being unable to disassociate even the simplest event from their hate.  Hate, it will be reported, was highly contagious.

Well documented are many examples of people consumed by horrors of war, obsessed with making money, or so wrapped with some beliefs that no form of normalcy was possible. The lost generation of the 1920’s came from World War I. The Catholic inquisition, beginning in the 12th century was hosted by priests saturated with a compulsion to control religious dissent or combat heresy.  The French Revolution was captured new commoner class out of a need to punish the rich. Pol Pot of Thailand, and his follower were controlled by the misguided thought that corruption could be contained by only eliminating all but the young.  All were “lost,” though only the first was so called.  And then there were the Nazis, with multiple channels of hate.

What Saul Alinsky may not have expressed was that to begin your revolution, you must first create a climate of hate.  The white supremacists know it; so also does Antifa.

Today’s modern hate is mostly political with both sides feeding upon the strength of the state. Only a few decades ago there was the agreement to disagree, but to make progress.  What is curious now is that many positions or goals are essentially impossible but are assumed simply to amplify hate.  Today, progress-for-good has been suspended in favor of hate’s natural need to breed.  As the strength of the state wanes, hate will transform into its preferred form, violence.

Like a disease, hate renders the population classified into those susceptible, those infected, and those recovered. Like for hepatitis, cancer, and Alzheimer’s, recovery can be slow or impossible.  The remaining, those not susceptible, watch this Zoroastrian battle in bewilderment. For those deeply infected, no recovery is possible.  The span of their lives is predetermined, permanently clouded, imprisoned, and lost within darker places of existence. 

I feel badly for our friends and colleagues captured within the core of modern hate and even those falling into its umbra. Is a national or even global recovery possible?

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