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2007-06-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-06-27 01:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Wow.

Just, . . . wow!

That is a stunningly direct critique.

Your great great grandmother, she had 14 kids
Your great grandmother had about as many
Then your grandmother had three, that was enough for her
Your mom didnt want any, you were an accident

Now you, my little lady, change partners all the time
When you screw up you save yourself by aborting
But there are mornings you awake crying
When you dream in the night of a large table surrounded by children.

(Full translation here.)

Posted by Mike 2007-06-27 07:03|| 2007-06-27 07:03|| Front Page Top

#2 We must regulate this improper anti-homosexual tirade immediately! It's an erosion of free speech!

Posted by gromky 2007-06-27 09:13|| 2007-06-27 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya sure it's a critique, Mike? Could be a celebration of diversity and freedom, no?

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-27 11:04|| 2007-06-27 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Or the fact we have no history. We have history creationism that begins when were born.

Look at mere hundred years ago. Female life expectancy was less than that of the male because of the complications of child birth. Infant mortality was third world in percentage. All of which altered with modern medicine by the latter portion of the 20th century.

Most people a hundred years ago lived in small towns, villages, and on the farms, not major metropolitan areas. Medical services were basic at best. Today, what is simple tetanus could easily kill without the existence of penicillin type drugs that were yet to come, but are so available today we take them for granted. We're oblivious to the perils of childhood polio because of that same expansion of medical knowledge and capabilities.

You not only had 'lots' of kids just to make sure some would survive daily life, but without Social Security type programs, the culture dictated you took care of your parents in the later years, just as your kids were expected to take care of you.

The environment has altered. Do you just continue to practice the same behavior or do you adapt?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-27 12:51|| 2007-06-27 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Watch the video, Bobby. The treatment of the masculine side is even more scathing: Your great-great grandfather bought the land to farm... now you sit in your one-bedroom [flat] and think about maybe buying something of your own.

Then we see an old woman with a wheelbarrow full of dirt, a matronly type scoops out a bucketful, runs it over to a maiden who fills a rucksack from the bucket, then to a child who takes a handful, drops all the dirt, and plants the photo found therein in the ground... and walks away. Definitely a critique.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-27 14:24|| 2007-06-27 14:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, it's a critique all righty, about the "Degeneration" (that's the title, y'know) of the human spirit under the baby-boomer welfare state (what Mark Steyn calls "Trudeaupia").

First verse: great grandfather clears the land, grandfather works the land and does something productive with it, father (baby-boom generation) sold it and went to work for the government, now the current generation has no property of its own.

Second verse: Great-grandma had a large family, grandma not so large, your baby-boom mother didn't want a kid, the daughter has abortions and is haunted by what she's done -- the family is dying out. (See, also, e.g., Mark Steyn)

Third verse: Great grandfather survives the depression, grandfather works hard and becomes a millionaire, dad (baby-boomer again) puts it all in RRSP (Canadian version of the 401K, I think) and coasts along until it's all gone, current generation has nothing and has to resort to bank robbery or "voluntary simplification" (giving up technology because it's good for the earth, or more virtuous, or some such).

Posted by Mike 2007-06-27 14:35|| 2007-06-27 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 *Very* nice song, with that great quebecquois accent. Will have to try to research that band, it will be a nice change of tone from the Cramps or the Reverend Horton Heat.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-06-27 14:45|| 2007-06-27 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Reverend Horton Heat, #7 anon?

I really don't want to know....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-27 19:56|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-06-27 19:56|| Front Page Top

#9 I didn't expect to see you guys falling for a "noble savage"++ myth.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-06-27 20:51|| 2007-06-27 20:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Quebecois grandmother had ten kids (unknown number didn't make it): check

Quebecois Mom had five (American) kids: check

Between me and my four siblings we've got one mom with two kids: check

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2007-06-27 20:52|| 2007-06-27 20:52|| Front Page Top

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