Epiphany
When I was in a Staples store today, I happened to look at their book rack.
Three caught my eye:
1. How To Get Rich by Donald Trump
2. Self Matters by Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
3. The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
The first two were perfectly appropriate. This is a store that sells business supplies for crying outloud.
But it was #3 that jarred because there in one book rack was the fatal delusion of the Baby Boomer generation: that there is no contradiction between making a lot of money and living a life based on the “self” and on the other hand, spiritual happiness, or, in Buddhist terms, “enlightenment”.
The Buddha certainly knew it and I assume that the Dalai Lama does too.
It reminded me of a TV commercial that I had seen for a retirement community (remember:the first Boomer turns 60 on 1 Jan 2006. That’s why PBS is running shows like “Power Aging” during there fund-raising drives and the latest AARP magazine has a story about Cybil Shephard “growing up”) which said that the community combined all the advantages of a small town, a country club and a spiritual community.
Translating all the implications contained in that book rack and that commercial into plain English comes out, “having your cake and eating it too”, or “the lion lying down with the lamb” or a sentiment of my own, “the Boomers wanted to go to the Revolution in a Mercedes-Benz”.
It was not until 9/11/01 that the Baby Boomer generation had to face the collective tragedy and suffering that “The Greatest Generation” had been living with since they were roughly 10 years old when the Great Depression began.
Somehow the Boomers were suckered into the belief that there was no such thing as good and evil or suffering and tragedy.
It was “the system” run by white, American,heterosexual, Christian, males that had gotten everything messed up.
Just straighten that out with enough therapy, education, b-mod and legislation and Woodstock and Neverland would be here.
But it didn’t work, which is why white-hot hatred is being directed at George W Bush over Iraq and “same-sex marriage” is supported by so many heterosexuals who have not the faintest idea of what is involved in the homosexual life and experience and cannot bring themselves to see what it has done to heterosexuality in the past 35 years.
Iraq must in some way be our fault and, if we are just tolerant enough, all sexual situations are justifiable. There are no rules.
It will be interesting to watch the Baby Boomers age over the next 15 years, to see their open-mindednes tested by the Islamic terrorists who really hate us and want to destroy us and to see what their reaction to inter-generational sex (which is the next step after “same-sex marriage”) will be.
And despite the advances of modern medicine, there is the ineviable onset and progression of decrepitude.
Where will their sacred doctrine of tolerance be forced to yield to the word they hate most, “No!”
For some reason, I am reminded of Oscar Wilde’s, “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”.

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