Carl Hitchens - tracking the self …
Carl Hitchens - tracking the self …
2016
I've labored assiduously this election cycle to argue points of view elevated above ideological catechism. Adherence to dogmatic creed divides and separates us, blinds us to our basic human commonage on this earth and on this land we call America. It is to the detriment of wise, intelligent discourse and reason. It is to the detriment of owning our collective part and causality for the world we live in. No generation is an absolute clean slate without responsibility, though often inferred as such. The yoke of mistakes or dysfunction inherited from the previous generation(s) goes beyond concepts of human organization and institutions of self-governing.
On the evolutionary journey to full consciousness, we are all flawed along the way: egotistical, self-centered, vain, self-involved, selfish, opinionated, biased, and suffering from self-grandiosity. There are no absolute innocents or sinners, just human beings doing their human thing—whether currently too young to have fully participated in our governing edifices or not.
Michael Moore in an interview [All In with Chris Hayes, MSN] appeals to millennials to consider voting for Hillary Clinton, because of the high stakes of this election, but alleges that they, however—as having no hand in the nation or world created before their emergence—are unburdened of any responsibility for post election reality.
Moore has failed as an elder. As generational progenitors we are to instill descendent generations with the knowledge that their decisions carry consequences. The weight of that cannot be laid at the feet of those preceding them. So welcome to adulthood millennial revolutionaries. If you are securing a better future for coming generations, you have to own your choices.
Unlike Superman’s and Supergirl’s Fortress of Solitude, where they retreat for contemplative insight, the fortress of attitude you have erected around yourselves, as messengers of unassailable truth, won’t insulate you from the consequences of this election.
Carl
Fortress of Attitude
11/7/16