The Fall

A bankrupt generation is fading away.

Victor Davis Hanson brings us this essay in which he looks at the decline and fall of the 60's generation through the lens of the Dan Rather forgery. And is it not fitting that in this incident we see all that was wrong with the baby boomer generation? Hubris, arrogance, pompous disregard for truth and honesty, and a pandering condescension to the basic morality of the American public on display for all eyes to see. This is a generation which is far too full of itself. It is a generation which wrote, and then believed, all of its own press clippings. Convinced of its own higher moral purpose, it proceeded to throw all moral and ethical principles out the window until only the "expedience of the moment" remained. And now their moment has passed and they will pass into history as the most overrated generation in American history; the generation which promoted itself to the exclusion of any real and lasting accomplishments.