Although many boomers and generation X readers know what I meant by "zombie generation" in the first part of this series, the zombies themselves seem rather puzzled...
Which is precisely the problem! Their "innate and instinctive skills" that once developed vital individual leadership and self-sufficiency in all things from common sense survival to formation of own opinions - rather than those that are carefully implanted by "the system" - have been neutralised by immersion in a process of mostly state-managed mind control from an early age, based on the principles of political correctness to inculcate what the PC brigade regard as absolute truths about the nature and boundaries of modern life, that cannot be challenged or altered.
This has created a generation that is more compliant for manipulation by big government and big business agendas. The ZG will dutifully accept the orders of the ever expanding armies of jobsworths who seem to have been granted endless power over our lives. So take your shoes off at the airport scanner; put that dog on a lead in the woods, eat 5 types of fruit and vegetable a day, allow any company that wants to direct debit your bank account; sort that rubbish into those 6 separate bins for recycling. And accept new taxes that are allegedly to help mitigate "climate change", without question or proof.
Thanks to the paranoid notions conveyed by a media, ever more frantic to draw attention to itself (cf the BBC and the already infamous Cliff Richard "raid") and promote the idea that there is a pervert lurking behind every bush, most kids no longer grow up in a world where they go out and play in the woods together to learn about life, and instinctive reactions to emergent situations and people. Their lives are carefully conducted, conditioned and cocooned - starting by being strapped into all manner of safety seats that us children of the reckless parenting of the 50s and 60s would scoff at. (Some of us might even suggest that the best Darwinian contribution to road safety would be a large spike on the steering wheel boss, that reminded the driver not to crash into the vehicle in front).
Kids up to the age of 7 are carefully conditioned and influenced by the principles of "Disney" marketing - endless product-placement TV shows, designed to spare frantic parents the duty of continuously amusing their children, or risk being deemed "inadequate".
The Jesuits knew the value of early indoctrination long before Disney and marketing came along to raise it to a science: "Give me a child until the age of 7, and I will give you the man". That's how most dominant religions have always operated, so the effort on getting kids at ever younger ages away from parents and into state approved early learning facilities (aka nursery school), is very much a part of the "we know what is good for you, better than you do" ethos, and a cornerstone of meddling government policy.
We all live in the brave new world where minds are controlled by messages "pushed" via screens (1984 got that right). Kids are no longer allowed to find out that competitive sports mean there are losers; girls no longer know they are supposed be subtle about the fact they are generally smarter than boys, and use that knowledge to manipulate the men in their lives. When did getting rat-arsed in public on girls' nights out become de rigeur? The old rules of a once orderly society built on years of working with the nuances of human nature, no longer apply.
The ZG has been conditioned to think in the way that the system wants them to think - so that they will put up with the many impositions that blight modern existence to make life more convenient for big governments and big businesses: everything from foreign call centres that consume our lives at 6p-40p a minute, to banks that are too big to fail and companies that are too big to pay taxes. They know no better, and accept their fate rather too willingly and less rebelliously than us grumpy old types, who can still remember a world of proper bank managers, and bustling high streets with more than just franchised coffee shops and mobile phone emporia as far as the eye can see.
Am I showing my age?
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