Thought control, green-style

"Forty years after enlightened baby boomers and academics decried conformity and told the world to ignore 'the establishment,' to not kowtow to 'the man,' to 'rap about problems to find solutions,' and to 'not guilt-trip or judge other people’s life choices,' those same sorts — the now firmly ensconced “establishment” pretending otherwise — are wondering why they can’t get people to fall in line and do as they’re told to do and think as they’re told to think with respect to the environment and the 'crisis' of 'climate change,' the 'crisis' which used to be called 'global warming' until the news got out that the earth has been cooling for the last ten years and the arctic ice is refusing to melt.

"Now, these establishment Boomers want you to kowtow to 'the man.' They’ll brook no open discussions and they prefer you would learn to judge others — and to scold them — for their own good and for the planet’s."

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Ugh. I saw it as early as the '70s -- hippies donning suits like lightning. Then in the '80s we were treated to such protracted whines as the show "Thirty-something." Then in the '90s it was all money-money-money. Now it's jokes about how the youngsters are going to have to break their backs giving us a comfortable retirement.

The rank hypocrisy. The refusal to grow UP, for crying out loud. Now they want to tell us what to think?

(via Instapundit)