Anatomy of collapse II

The major wars killed many of our great young men, men who should have started families and raised their children. They died for their home country, for freedom, and for honor, or at least that is what they believed. In reality, they fought and died in wars driven by powerful men and bankers behind the scenes who sought to reorganize the old world order.

Those who survived often returned deeply traumatized, which had a profound impact on the generations that followed. Especially after the Second World War and Vietnam war.

This led to the emergence of countercultures in the 1950s and 1960s, such as the Beatniks and later the hippies of the 1970s, who had some legitimate concerns. They highlighted issues like government overreach, banking influence, and war. However, many would argue that they did not offer strong or practical solutions. Instead, much of the movement focused on “free love,” drugs, and corporate-driven music and fashion.

The Beatniks were often associated with pretentious, drug-influenced poetry and an anti-establishment lifestyle. Many young people formed communes that were frequently unproductive or unstable. The so-called “flower children” continued in a similar direction, engaging in protests and drug-centered concerts. Some critics argue that, without realizing it, parts of these movements were absorbed into broader cultural and commercial systems rather than truly reforming them.

What interests me is the complete infiltration of all Canadian/American universities in the 1930s by radical leftists promoting global communism and sexual degeneracy. That subversion went completely unnoticed by many folks back then and including impowering the women man equalization movement, later known as feminism.

https://freeshuswap.com/feminism-as-a-tool-to-destroy-society/

Not many of them understood that they were part of a communist plot to influence or transform America.

I would argue that this was the beginning of an attack on European cultural ideals. Each generation was exposed to substances and moral degeneracy with the intention of weakening society and enabling control by elites.

Many were not present in their children’s lives. They did not promote family values, community cooperation, or productive industry,  the things that strengthen social bonds and sovereignty. They often looked down on people who were different from them, calling them “straight” or “squares.” These were often working-class individuals, farmers, soldiers, and Christians.

Prior to WW2, it was the social norm for any young person (man or woman) to do an apprenticeship and then work an honest vocation. By the 1950s, the social norm had turned into “go to a four year university program and maybe graduate school afterwards.”

Many of them eventually sold their farms and small businesses and took corporate jobs. They became involved in shifting industry to third-world countries in search of cheaper labor, leaving their own youth with fewer opportunities at home. These were the very industries that had once allowed them to build wealth and stability.

Still, people of the 50’s 60’s and 70’s benefited from ideal demographics, unadulterated foods, and booming economies, so it was difficult to notice the rotting of cultural ideals and government policy changes.

Since the 1970s, both Canada and the USA have had a major issues in young people doing apprenticeships. Even community colleges (founded in the 1950s) struggled to find younger folks, despite the abundance of opportunities that they offered in their training programs.

Canada and USA by the 1990s, were importing large numbers of skilled tradespeople — tool and die makers, millwrights, and others — from Eastern Europe. This was because America could no longer produce a significant number of skilled craftsmen, even though there was still a strong demand for such workers.

I believe that what happened from the 1930s to the 1950s can be described as mass “cognitive dissonance,” a term psychologists use to describe the relaxed, complacent attitudes of people after enduring the Great Depression and World War II. Many had grown weary of struggle and hardship, and they simply wanted to live the “easy life” of the 1950s through the 1980s.

Before World War II, there were no microwave dinners, televisions in every home, or other modern conveniences in Canada or the USA. After the war, life became much easier, and many older adults failed to pass on essential wisdom, work ethic, and practical knowledge to the next generation.

This is particularly evident among those born in the 1950s and 1960s. Most baby boomers grew up with permissive parenting, worked in soft office jobs, lived in sprawling, car-dependent suburbs, and were largely isolated from societal challenges.

This alone helps explain why few young people in the 1950s had the patience or interest to learn a trade or craft. By the 1970s, both Canada and the USA were already experiencing labor shortages in skilled trades — not just common construction trades like carpentry, but specialized areas such as glass blowing, HVAC work, pneumatic tooling, and electronics. Many of these skilled trades were already in significant decline by that decade.

In this way, generations of once-strong, independent people in America gradually became weaker, increasingly dependent on corporate jobs, with most later working in company services or government bureaucracy.

As Carl Sagan perfectly describes in 1995: I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystal and nervously consulting horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions of darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in slow decay od substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites {now 10 second or less}, lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

NN, DB