WORLD_ With Queen Elizabeth, the Greatest Generation Says Goodbye

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With Queen Elizabeth, the Greatest Generation Says Goodbye

By Jerry Wilson | Sep 10, 2022 1:45 PM ET

(AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, file)


Ever since Cain told Adam and Eve, “Yeah — what do you know, and how should I know where Abel is?” every generation spends its youth firmly convinced its conceptualizations regarding The Way Things Ought To Be are the sum total of all wisdom. Experience? Totally unnecessary. Who needs it, when we talked about this in class last week? With all the hubris of Bullwinkle preparing to pull a rabbit out of a hat, each generation proudly proclaims it possesses all the answers, so outta the way, old fogies; watch us save the world!

Every generation also learns, albeit 15 minutes too late, that not only does it not have all the answers, it doesn’t have so much as the questions right. Armed at long last with true wisdom, the generation in question attempts imparting this knowledge to the next generation … which, even as the now imparting ones did to their preceding generation, ignores them. Because they already have all the answers.

In recent history, there has been a generation that might not have had all the answers, but it had all imaginable challenges thrown in its face, yet emerged triumphant. It was the one that grew up in the 1930s and 1940s, first buffeted by the Great Depression and then dragged into the Second World War, one that made the first seem like a disagreement on seating arrangements at a high tea social. This generation won the war, went home, made a whole bunch of babies, AKA Boomers, currently being blamed for all the world’s problems–and then started taking their leave, after a job far better done than for which the clenched little self-satiated social justice warriors pretending to be historians are willing to give them credit.

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