This is the far-right-wing response to the Elliot Rodger massacre. I dont think hes totally wrong about the breakdown of the traditional family being at least partly responsible for Rodgers alienation. My paternal grandparents were married for over 70 years. My maternal grandparents would have been married for just as long had my grandfather not died in a car crash in his sixties. But he falls into self-pity and whining when he says: This was a sickness that infected men and women equally. A generation or so ago a woman might have looked for a man who was kind, loving, pious, generous, faithful, hard working. The women in Rodger’s circle, as he saw it, looked for men who were hot, hunky and/or rich, none of which he was. Hes wrong. Not much has changed in that sense. My mother was an ex-cheerleader who says she married my father because he was 63, and had confidence.Elliot Rodger wouldnt have been much of a catch in the 60s either. My mother or her friends wouldnt have looked twice at him. What I think happened is that the 60s were an unfulfilled revolution. The traditional family broke down but wasnt replaced with anything. Those Baby Boomers talked about a new society but all they really wanted to do was not go to Vietnam, sleep around a bit after college, and get into the upper-middle-class when they hit 30 or so. So we lost what was good about conservatism and didnt replace it with anything beyond simple materialism and status lust. americanthinker/2014/05/the_twisted_world_of_elliot_rodger.html
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 19:20:16 +0000
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