Timothy Birdnow

The wife and I were discussing walkmans. She saw a story on the television and asked "are they bringing those back now?"

I pointed out that they just might; after all, vinyl records have returned and everyone is dumping CD's. 

We discussed the reasons why so many young people seem on this nostalgia kick.

My view is simple; they do not like the modern world. They long for a simpler time when life wasn't so, well, obnoxiously modern. They see reruns of '70's and '80's television shows (I have several retro t.v. networks on my antenna t.v.) and they wish life were like that; two parents at home, no sexual pressures, adequate technology but not overly complex requiring lots of money and time, etc.

I suspect this nostalgia kick stems from that. It was the same thing that drove the New Wave music movement in the eighties (which was a return to '50's style in many ways.)

I think these kids deep down understand their society is sick and abusive. I don't think they understand it consciously, but I believe in their psyche they know it to be so. They wish they could turn back the clock and live in a better time.

That has always been true of the current generation, but the youths of today have more reason than most to wish that. Conforming to Godly standards, modesty, orderly behavior, sexual restraint, are all things the animal nature of humans resists but which our hearts and minds and souls understand to be a great good for us. We want order and stability and we want clear cut rules to follow and a sense that all will work out in the end.

That is antithetical to the modern Progressive ideals which emphasize a kind of radical individualism which isolates people, emphasizes no standards except the promotion of this radical individualism, which promotes political and social upheaval, sexual and intellectual anarchy, and rebellion at every turn.

As I say, this feeds our animal natures and to many it is the key to happiness, but in reality it only makes people miserable. They are wandering stars, blown about by the winds of a cruel fate that concerns itself not a wit with their emotional needs or their individual natures. It is radical individualism collectivized into groups. The Christian ethic that dominated America in the past emphasized the community and our role therein, while also emphasizing the right of the mature to make prudent decisions in their own self-interest. We believed in individualism but with the choice of a voluntary community. The Progressive ideal is a radical liberty that eschews any and all guidelines and demands guardrails be put up lest the mad individuals hurt themselves. It imposes order only by force of law, not by the voluntary surrender of some of the individual's freedom of action out of respect for the laws of nature and nature's God.

Essentially it's a form of madness. The modern concept of freedom is the freedom to violate basic laws of nature. Don't like being a man? Just proclaim yourself a woman and everyone will be forced by law and by cultural pressure applied by the gatekeepers to acknowledge your claim. Unhappy if too many people from your ethnic group is in prison? Cry "RACISM" and let them all out. Don't ask why and don't try to reduce crime in your ethnic community. Like having sexual relations with children, dogs, dead bodies, etc.?  Destigmatize it and demand your right to sodomize any way you wish. Riot all you want (as long as it's in the service of the Progressive tolerant utopia.) Shout down anyone with whom you disagree. Censor them on electronic media. Take money from some to promote your fantasies of "equity" and "social justice" without recompense.

All of this is unnatural and immoral and deep down the youths of America and the Western World know it.

And they have been terrified into believing these are the Last Days, but not in the Christian sense; they think industrial emissions of small amounts of carbon dioxide is going to wipe everyone out. They don't want to move into space either because "well just mess that up too". So they wait around for the other shoe to drop and end it all.

There is despair in the young. That is why they don't want to have jobs, or own houses, or own cars. They basically want to curl into a ball and lay there like turtles. They are a generation in clinical depression.

And they've been told all their lives Christianity and Judaism is superstition because we know so much more now. So they have no spiritual anchor to protect them.

They come from broken homes and have broken lives. The girls believe in feminism and think they have no real hope for the kind of relationships that they should want and secretly desire. The boys feel they are worthless because of their "toxic masculinity". They have no sense of purpose. Their lives are venial and empty.

Social justice warfare gives some temporary relief, as it is a kind of purpose, but it is in service of the very things that have wrecked their lives in the first place.

And there is nothing to refresh their spirits. They live in guilded cages; with plenty of material blessings but none of what really matters in the end.

As they used to say "you can't take it with you". No amount of money matters if you are going to perish and be just gone.

So I believe that is no small part in the return of vinyl records and the nostalgia kick. These young people intuitively know their system is broken, their beliefs wrong, and that those who they were always taught to listen to and believe in sold them a bill of goods.

It's very sad. Especially since nobody seems to be there to try to guide them out of this blighted spiritual wilderness.

Youth ministry should be the prime mission for most of the churches these days. We let the Progressive Left kidnap the young and are still doing nothing about it. They need the salvation of Christ and the grounding the Holy Spirit grants to let them see what is real and what is true and to understand the bankruptcy of the philosophy they have been taught.

Unfortunately I see little effort tot hat effect. And so the young desperately wait for us older folk to die off and let them have the Progressive utopia they have been taught to dream about. Many of them believe it will be better. They don't understand that it is but the road to damnation and Hell awaits their purgatory that they are enduring in our modern Western world.

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