American Glory - Baby Boomers Had It All… And They Burned It Down
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Baby Boomers had it all and they burned it all down. They were born between the years 1901 and 1927. They were the most privileged, economically powerful, and culturally influential generation in American history, and they turned into the most self-centered and culturally destructive generation the world has ever seen.
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Today on American Glory, we're examining the rise and fall of the baby boomer generation,
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how they became the most privileged, economically powerful, and culturally influential generation in
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American history, and how they turned into the most self-centered and culturally destructive
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generation the world has ever seen. Now, my weekly audit, I'm going to be discussing the
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unequal economies between boomers and past generations, and why we need more older people
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in young, bold churches. All that and more coming up right now.
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welcome to american glory this is season one on american identity i'm your host dale partridge
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this is episode number seven titled baby boomers had it all and they burned it all down each season
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i'm going to be covering an american theme with eight episodes now if you didn't know american
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Glory is both a podcast and a video show. And if you want to listen, you can listen on the NXR
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podcast feed or on my personal podcast feed. Just search Dale Partridge's podcast anywhere,
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and you're going to find me on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you want to listen to your
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podcast. Now, if you want to watch the video, which I suggest that you do because it comes with
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helpful slides, graphics, video clips, it can really feel like a documentary. You can watch
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it on my YouTube channel at Dale Partridge TV. Now, next season, I'm going to be covering
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American Christianity. I'm going to be covering everything from colonial Christian nationalism
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to the Puritan view of slavery. I'm going to talk about dispensationalism, the effeminacy
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of the modern church, and of course, the debate between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Now,
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if you have been following along our last episode, I examined the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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and how it birthed white guilt, minority entitlement, and destroyed natural social
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pressures that once encouraged assimilation. Now, if you've been following along, I've taken you on
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a pretty long journey here, right? We've gone through America's political history over the past
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probably about 150 years, from the pre-war consensus to the post-war consensus. We've
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seen how the trauma of two world wars basically led America's elites to engage in a kind of
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national self-repudiation, traumatized by nationalism. They repented through this kind
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of suicidal policies, opening the borders to the third world with the Hart-Celler Act, enforcing
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racial integration through the Civil Rights Act, and then dismantling patriarchy with feminism,
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embracing tolerance and privatizing Christianity. All of this in a desperate attempt to prevent
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anything from resembling the nationalism that fueled the great wars. So we've covered the
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policies, today we turn to the people. Not those who initiated these changes, but the generation
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that eagerly embraced them. These people, as we will see, they magnified them, they worshipped
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them, and ultimately drove America into the current death spiral that it is going to now.
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And so, get ready to see how the generation with the greatest privileges
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became the greediest generation in American history. Let's begin.
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to truly understand the baby boomer generation we have to first understand their parents their
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parents were called greatest generation and they're born between the years 1901 and 1927.
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they were born into a world of extreme contrast because of the industrial revolution there was a
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boom of millionaires but roughly one percent of americans controlled as much wealth as the bottom
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99 percent combined now at the same time this was an age of incredible technological progress we saw
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electricity and automobiles and railways and the phonograph and photography and the national
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newspapers were transforming daily life we also saw the schofield reference bible was born and
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it seeded dispensationalism and zionism across america the industrial revolution pulled millions
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out of the rural life and into those rapidly growing cities. So the rhythm of existence was
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shifting from local to national, from slow to fast, from personal to public. And this generation's
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childhood and their young adulthood were defined by scarcity, uncertainty, change, hardship. Now
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many of them came of age during World War I only to face the Great Depression in the 1930s. And
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And when charities and churches could no longer cope with this scale of suffering after the
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Depression, the federal government stepped in under Franklin Roosevelt's Jewish-backed
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Now, the New Deal laid the groundwork for the modern welfare state and shifted financial
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support from the family and the church to the federal government.
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Then just as recovery just began to seem possible, America was thrust into World War II.
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We know that men fought and bled and sacrificed on a scale that few generations have ever known.
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And when they finally returned home victorious, they inherited an incredibly fortunate nation.
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You see, Europe laid in ruins and all of its cities were bombed.
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America now stood as the undisputed manufacturing economic superpower on the planet.
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So having survived economic collapse and two global wars, this greatest generation, this group of people, was marked by a sense of toughness toward the world, but a tenderness toward their children.
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And it culminated in a cultural vow that I believe would shape the rest of the 20th century.
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It was, quote, our children will have it better than we did, end quote.
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Now, between 1946 and 1964, America experienced the largest birth surge in its history.
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And roughly 76 million children were born during this period, which completely reshaped
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the nation's demographics, the culture, the economy.
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These babies increased the United States population by about half.
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Now, they poured their energy, this greatest generation, they poured their energy, their
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resources, their hopes, into giving their children the comfort, the stability, the opportunities
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that they never had themselves. It was a noble desire, but what it did is that it produced
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something entirely new in American life. The first truly child-centered culture in the nation's
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history. Now, we often project modern parenting habits onto past families, but historically,
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children were to be seen and not heard, managed more than coddled. Now, the boomers changed that
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dramatically. Some of it was good and some of it was bad. Now, it was influenced by Dr. Benjamin
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Spock's bestselling book, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, which sold over 500,000
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copies in the first six months. And they embraced a new kind of permissive style of parenting.
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Their feelings were centered and protection from hardship became a priority.
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Then we had the birth of the suburban neighborhood and Little League and piano lessons and summer camps
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and the emerging field of what they called child psychology.
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All revolved around making children feel not like the greatest generation,
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but feel seen and special and important and secure.
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And so for the first time, children were no longer kind of subordinate participants in family life.
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In fact, they became the emotional center of it.
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Now, if you were a capitalist in 1955, what did you see?
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Toys R Us launched its first dedicated toy store in 1957.
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and Lego started in 1958. So millions of entitled children with millions of overindulgent,
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newly permissive parents came on the scene. And the men who grew up poor were now, to their
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standards, rich, and they wanted their kids to not want for anything. And as a result,
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television exploded into American homes and it was right on time. Okay. RCA introduced its first
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mass market TV in 1946. And by the 1950s, over 90% of American households owned at least one TV.
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And this is a faster adoption rate than even the internet decades later. So television quickly
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became the family nanny, right? Children spent twice as much time in front of the screen as they
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did socializing with others. This was all new. For the first time in history, a machine, not parents,
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not the church, not the local community, became the central tool of child formation.
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The influence shifted dramatically from local and familial to now national and commercial.
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You were no longer primarily raised by a village, you were being raised by a nation, a country that was carefully programmed to meet your desires or to make you want more.
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See, but it wasn't the television shows or even the movies that most profoundly shaped the baby boomer generation.
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For the first time in history, advertisers began speaking directly to kids, creating desires and insecurities and demands that parents have never had to deal with before.
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So toys and cereal and candy and clothes and gadgets and all of these things were marketed to these boomer children with sophisticated psychological techniques that's aimed at the hearts and minds of the young.
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happiness comes through consumption you are what you own and so the boomer generation didn't just
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watch television they were the first to be systematically programmed by it now meanwhile
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they were experiencing what i would call deep cracks that were forming beneath the surface
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of their generation many fathers were still carrying the invisible wounds uh into uh the
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invisible wounds of the war into their family life. And as a result, they threw themselves
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into workaholism and alcoholism. And they're absent at home because kind of this emotional
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pain, and it created an emotional void in their families. Now, mothers, many of whom had tasted
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independence working in factories during the war, now found themselves emotionally disconnected
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from their husbands and increasingly unfulfilled in domestic life. And so these boys start growing
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up, idolizing the strong TV fathers, but they rarely saw that kind of man at home. And girls
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watch their mothers grow discontent with the traditional womanhood. And as a result,
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the traditional structure of the family began to erode. And so the 1950s were in many ways
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like a deeply external moral era. It was largely a moralism without true transformation from
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Christianity. America was still riding on the coattails if it's a historic Christian heritage,
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but the morality of the 1950s was detached from the robust Christian doctrine of previous
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generations. Churches were full, but the gospel was often sentimental, shallow, moralistic,
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rather than transformative. Now, society in the 1950s was still very Christian, but only passively
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ethics, but without that deep grounding in theology, eventually asks the fatal question,
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why should we live this way? In other words, the 1950s were largely an era of kind of like
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plastic Christianity. And when that spiritual emptiness was combined with the emerging post-war
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consensus that it was creating, it was this perfect fertile ground for the moral civilizational
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rebellion that would explode in the 1960s. Now, the boomers inherited adulthood with enormous
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cultural economic power, and they experienced the entire world in a way that no other generation
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had before they expected the nation to continue revolving around their wants and their emotions
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and they rejected the conformity and restraint of their parents and grandparents generation
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and they ushered in the era of the quote do your own thing now the cultural mood it flipped
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radically from the 1950s to the 1960s from obedience to you know self-expression from
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modesty to the sexual revolution, from duty to feelings. You know, we saw rock and roll and
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television and advertising amplified all of these things, the self-indulgence mentality to a level
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that was never seen before in American history. Now, one historian said, quote, the 1960s became
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a perfect storm of unprecedented affluence, boredom, and rebellion, end quote. I think he's
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right. I mean, it really reshaped everything. Political spheres, art, religion, sex, morality.
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In fact, most people don't realize how destructive the 1960s were for America. I mean, it took 200
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years to build a nation, and it was almost completely deconstructed in one decade by one
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generation of people. And we saw this because in rapid succession, the baby boomers cheered on or
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directly supported the sweeping wave of transformative liberal post-war consensus
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legislation and Supreme Court rulings, right? The Civil Rights Act, we saw the Heart Seller Act,
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the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
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the removal of prayer and Bible reading from public schools, the legalization of interracial
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marriage, the legalization of sodomy, the overturning of contraception laws, the steady
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dismantling of pornography restrictions the the legal uh scaling of strip clubs and eventually
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the legalization of abortion in 1973 and so it was it was a house fire that burned down
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like the very infrastructure that had made america what it was and so this generation
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what could only be described as kind of national trust fund kids tore down the fences their
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forefathers had carefully built without ever pausing to ask why those fences were there in
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the first place. You see, the baby boomers are the only generation that had a better economy than
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their parents and their children, okay? This is a very strange phenomenon in both history and
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economics. Now, because of feminism and the sexual revolution, the boomers married later,
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and they married less often, and they had more and higher divorce rates. But when they did marry,
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they also had fewer children. So for generations, Americans had averaged well over three children
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per woman. The boomers dropped that number just down to about 1.8, and that's below the
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replacement level. And so raising children was essentially too inconvenient for a generation
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of self-absorbed people. Now, this demographic collapse became one of the main justifications
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for mass immigration, this need for economic replacement. So if you won't have your own
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children, you must import someone else's foreign children. Now, to the boomer, the mark of a
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healthy nation was not moral, religious, racial, or virtue. It was almost purely economic. Nothing
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else mattered as long as the economy was growing and they could continue their indulgent lifestyle.
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Now, the church was not spared from this spirit of the boomers either. What happened under
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the boomer years in the church? Well, a shallow, audience-driven, spectator Christianity was born.
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Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago built the megachurch model around pragmatism.
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I mean, just think about this with me. After thousands of years of historic liturgy, reverence,
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tradition, not one generation has tried to turn the church into a spectator experience.
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But the boomers turned Sunday morning into entertainment in just one generation.
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Okay, they replaced the pulpit with a stage, hymns, and the organ with drums and a guitar,
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and kicked the children out of the service, inventing this kind of modern youth ministry
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movement to outsource their responsibility to catechize and disciple their own children.
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And just as they had done even with the public school system.
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So everything became about personalization and preference.
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The customer, whether in the marketplace or in the pew, was always right.
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And the capitalists and the pastors were happy to deliver this to that generation.
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See, but then came a young Southern Baptist preacher named Hal Lindsey.
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and he was an author and wrote a modest book 192 page paperback titled the late great planet earth
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now few people probably imagine that this book would become one of the most selling books in
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all time 35 million copies and it was outselling nearly every other non-fiction title of that
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decade now mr lindsay had been deeply formed at dallas theological seminary which is the epicenter
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of dispensational theology and dispensational theology essentially divides history into distinct
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dispensations and it placed modern israel at the center of biblical prophecy and it interpreted
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essentially current events as signs of this imminent return of christ and this imminent
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apocalypse. And so the timing was perfect. America in 1970 was already trembling, right? The Cuban
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Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the race riots, the constant shadow of nuclear annihilation
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was really leaving the nation with this kind of atomic anxiety and they're exhausted.
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And into this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty, Hal Lindsey dropped a message that was both
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terrifying, and I think strangely comforting to the boomers. The end was near, right? And it was
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all part of God's plan. And so he declared that Israel's rebirth in 1948 as this kind of super
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sign of the last days, and the European common marketplace was kind of the revived Roman Empire,
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the Antichrist was alive and rising somewhere in Europe. You know, most enticing of all,
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Lindsay taught that the generation that saw Israel restored in 1948 would not pass away
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before Christ's return, which he calculated put the rapture sometime before 1988.
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Now, to a generation already steeped in kind of a narcissistic instant gratification mentality,
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this was an intoxicating Christian message. It gave the baby boomers theological permission
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to live for the present moment, as they had already done.
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Why raise large families and reform a broken culture
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So not only did churches become modern consumer centers to meet the materialistic and historically rebellious desires, but they also filled this generation with prophecy charts and rapture fever and increasingly empty of this kind of long-term vision that was characterized in the church.
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The greatest generation was characterized by working, just like many other generations.
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But the boomer generation was characterized by waiting.
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And as one preacher famously quipped during this time,
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And I think that phrase captures the spirit of that age.
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you know, don't try to stop the evil. In fact, the faster the evil comes and dominates,
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the sooner Christ returns. And so American Christianity shifted from, you know, thy kingdom
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come to take us home, you know, and do it soon. And so for an economically focused generation,
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the boomers kept this prosperity of the moment, the now for themselves. And they left almost
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nothing for their children because they're not having a long-term mindset as previous Christians
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did. Now, I was born in 1985. My father earned about $75,000 in 1995, which placed us comfortably
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in kind of an upper middle class. Now, to have the same standard of living and economic power
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today, I would have to earn roughly $260,000. The national debt under the boomer generation
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tripled, okay? Their uncontrolled spending and consumption habits that really helped
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birth the modern credit card industry and explosion of consumer debt. But what began as
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a convenient buying pattern was quickly turned into a sophisticated system of usury. And we all
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know who's behind the usury in the United States. But the boomers were basically a gold mine
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population for banks looking to exploit easy credit and long-term debt. Now, we've kind of
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grown numb to these things, these staggering statistics that we hear about online. But the
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truth is sobering. Again, no generation in modern history, not even those who lived through world
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wars, has experienced such a rapid simultaneous collapse in morality, family, religion, national
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identity, and economic opportunity in a single generation. Okay, millennials and Zoomers,
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they're living through something unprecedented. Not just like financial collapse, not just moral
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collapse, not just national collapse, not just religious collapse, not just family collapse,
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but all of it at one time. And I think that millennials and Gen Z, they share a deep intuitive
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sense of having been screwed. Okay. I think that's what I hear when I have these conversations. I
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I mean, if you look honestly at the numbers and the trajectory, you quickly realize that they
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sold our future. In a very real sense, the baby boomers were generational locusts. I mean,
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to this day, economically, it doesn't always look that bad on the surface. The average neighborhood
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still functions. People are still buying food. They're still going about their life. But that's
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just because you're looking on the outside. And everybody's burning through their reserves.
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They're borrowing money from their parents. They're drowning in debt. They're renting their
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houses because they can't afford to buy their own. And any inheritance that would have been helpful
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during our 20s and 30s, a lot of boomers are now spending it on a motorhome to travel
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you know, across the nation or to buy an extra house in Hawaii or whatever it may be.
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And even on those motorhomes, you know, they got the bumper sticker, right? Spending my children's
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inheritance. Okay. So the, the, the hard truth is this, the baby boomer generation squandered
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an enormous inheritance, not just financial, not just moral, not just religious, not just
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cultural, not just in values and virtue, not just in national identity, but all of it.
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All of it changed under one generation. Now, and because of their enormous size and voting power,
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the boomers also dominated American politics for the past 40 years. Like no president or
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major politician dared to criticize them because without the boomer vote, you simply couldn't win.
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And for us living below them, this is all we've ever known, but it's not how it's always been.
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Okay. Previous generations thought generationally. The boomers did not. I mean, I often think about
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just the concept of the cathedrals. I mean, think about how many generations it took.
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Most cathedrals took between 200 and 500 years to build. Cambridge or Oxford,
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these institutions took hundreds of years to finish their buildings. You can't build
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buildings like that without having a long-term multi-generational outlook on society.
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So you can just look at the facts of society and get the implicit reality that they had no
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position that Jesus is coming back really soon. No, they were building for generations because
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they believed that Christ wasn't coming back until the world had been Christianized, which is the
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historic optimistic eschatology of post-millennialism, which I will be talking about in the next
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season. But again, boomer dominance, it will eventually end, right? We're seeing that now
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as the boomers are dying off as they grow older. Going forward, millennials and Zoomers are going
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to become a generation of retrieval and recovery. Okay, we are a generation who has to look back to
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the old paths. We're thinking of our descendants and our nation in ways that they did not.
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And I'm often reminded that, well, I try to remind men that if our fathers were not honorable,
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that we have to look to our fathers' fathers or to our fathers' fathers' fathers. And that's how
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you can fulfill the fifth commandment in this generation. Look, I get it. No generation is
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perfect, but ours has been uniquely corrupted by several factors that are bigger than just the
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boomers. I mean, it's more than just the boomers. But the boomers are a significant piece to this
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puzzle. Now, the only way to return to a multi-generational, covenantal, patriarchal,
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nationalistic, and Christian society is to relearn, no pun intended for those that follow
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my ministry, but to relearn the old ways, right? To dig up what was once very common and return
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to practices and patterns that served civilization well for many centuries. Now, we're already seeing
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this on the rise of homeschooling. Classical Christian schools are being started, homesteading
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this kind of renewed interest in historic Christian traditions like Anglicanism and
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Presbyterianism and Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. See, ultimately, people are realizing
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that we had a nation and now we don't. And this entire collapse happened under the watch and
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leadership of the baby boomer generation. Now, I do want to say, not every boomer is equally
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responsible. There are many excellent baby boomers, strong, bold, virtuous men that were,
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I would even say prophetically, you know, preaching against their generation. There was a lot of good
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and godly men and women in that particular generation. So when I say these, I'm speaking
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in generalizations. I'm not speaking specifically to every single boomer. My own father fought
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against abortion. You know, he would have me watch anti-abortion documentaries when I was a kid.
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I remember my dad wearing a shirt that on the back in big letters, it would say something like
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white, Christian, American, heterosexual man, or something like that. And he was standing
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against those things in that generation. We went to church in the 90s. He stood up against
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mass immigration, homosexuality. But again, as a generation, as a whole, the facts are just
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undeniable. Okay. If we're just looking at objective metrics, their legacy is one of
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squandered inheritance. They inherited something quite excellent. And again, I know there's many
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factors involved and there are a lot of other people, including their parents that transitioned
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them into this. But there really is, if you just look at the objective reality, a squandering of
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inheritance. So the journey ahead must be both bottom-up and top-down, okay? Planting faithful
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churches, strong Christian schools, covenantal communities, which again, is its bottom-up,
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and at the same time, also raising up theologically robust Christian men to take leadership
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in political office, you know, the executive, the legislative, the judicial branches,
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top down. I'm going to be talking more about that in our final episode for the season.
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All right, so we're going to be talking about a few things this week in the audit.
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I'm going to offer just some short commentary on two videos.
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And I want to start with a young man's analysis of the baby boomer generation and why life
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Forrest Gump is the perfect analogy for the life of boomers.
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It's a movie about a retard who just stumbles through life successfully.
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The boomer generation was born into a post-war America where jobs were just as easy as going
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down to a local factory and applying, or most likely your dad knew a guy.
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You have no college education and you get a manual labor job with a starting salary you can afford a home.
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And the woman that you marry was your classmate growing up and a member of your church.
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And you're capable of supporting an entire family off this job with full benefits and can retire at 62 years old,
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collect Social Security, and live off your pension.
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And not only that, but now your house is worth a million dollars.
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And just like Forrest Gump, this is an accidental success through luck and timing rather than exceptional talent or hard planning.
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And the movie mythologizes the second half of the 20th century into this feel-good nostalgia,
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The problem is, is that today they're the largest voting bloc in America and hold about
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40% of our nation's total wealth and 35% of all federal spending directly serves boomers.
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And they're an out-of-touch generation of infants raised on television that dictates
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their reality, who destroyed the inheritance of your nation.
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The baby boomers are the only generation in modern American history, again, who had it
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significantly better than both their parents and their children. They inherited, you know, a
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functional, predictable system, right? You went to school, you went to college, often at very little
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debt, and then you stepped into an economy with a clear career path that, you know, were frequently
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supported by parents or community connections. Today, young people graduate, well, they go to
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public school. Then they take on like $100,000 in debt to get a degree that doesn't matter to their
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career. And then they are like kind of thrown out into the wild, searching for jobs, and are
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increasingly being replaced by AI and by foreigners. And nothing feels predictable or reliable anymore.
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I was just watching The Dead Poets Society, and you should check this movie out. It's just an
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incredible movie that you can watch. It's Robin Williams, and it shows the late 1950s, and they're
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in kind of a Hogwarts-style school where you had dorm rooms in high school, and it's kind of like
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aristocracy, higher-level networking and students. But they had this classical Christian education
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and this robust experience, and I thought, man, they inherited that. They inherited that
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beautiful old buildings that have been around for 100 years and just this incredible experience
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that would shape and put out some of the best people. And they kind of just rebelled against
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all of that. And so the boomers just didn't sustain the pattern because they failed to see
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the value in maintaining the system that their forefathers built and that their children would
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benefit from. And so it's going to be our job to rebuild a reliable pattern. And so one where,
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again, if you follow certain steps that you can generally have a predictable and fruitful life,
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that means we have to stop moving so much, right? We have to build strong churches,
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build strong towns, build strong businesses, build strong training programs and education
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systems, own businesses so that you can hire your own sons and daughters, actively help faithful
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Christian singles get married so that they can start families. And so we need all of that. We
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need to rebuild the systems of predictability so we can build a national culture that we can go,
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hey, look, if you're faithful, you can follow this pattern. And I know that AI is harder now
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because we don't know what the heck's going to happen in the next 10 to 15 years as a result.
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But what we want to do is we want to create strong thinkers, people who can navigate
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through any circumstance. One argument that we have for enrolling people at our classical
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Christian school here at our church is, yeah, you want to teach your kids how to start a business.
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So sure, you want them to read business books. But the people who invented the printing press
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or the people who invented the automobile, they didn't read business books. They read the classics.
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They read biographies. They read Shakespeare. And what the reality was is these were people
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who were able to think. They were able to learn. They were high IQ, intelligent men and women.
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And so our job is not so much to just give them how to, how to, how to, but to raise a generation
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of people who know what wisdom is, who have a moral compass, who can think clearly. And so we
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have to rebuild that system. So yeah, check out the Dead Poets Society. Look at the themes.
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like their rebellion was going at night to read poetry and smoke cigarettes in this cave.
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But it's just, it gives you a, it'll make your soul hurt because it'll make you realize how much
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we lost and how much we lost in one generation, in one generation. So, all right, our next video
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comes from Pastor Mark Driscoll speaking to the differences in giving between the boomers
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and young generation. Let's take a look. You boomers, let me just rebuke you all. You are
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retiring and moving away from your children and abandoning them and not being generous toward
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them and not helping them. And when you die, you're not even including them in your estate.
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You despise your God and your children. You're an entirely greedy generation that loves money
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in power. How shameful is it that children are out giving parents? Let me say, when you get to
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be my age, you're making usually more than your 20 something kid who's just getting started and
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they're out giving you. It's just disgusting. Yeah. So, um, now I know there are many faithful
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boomers. I said it already who give generously to their churches and we praise God for you.
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Praise the Lord for that. But the hard reality is that most boomers are attending,
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you know, woke, feminist-leaning, cowardly megachurch churches that practice spectator
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Christianity. And they're massively expensive. And the only reason that they're affording to
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do that is because they have so many boomers. In fact, there was a church in our own city.
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we at one point shared a parking lot. And everybody, it was fascinating because we would
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watch all the people that would show up at our church were men wearing suits, women wearing
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dresses, women wearing head coverings, vans filled with kids. And they were walking up to our church
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that sings hymns, that focuses on a liturgical structure of church, having a more historic
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example of church. Me as the pastor, I'm wearing a clerical collar. We're doing kneeling. We're a
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very conservative church, but we're all under the age of 40. Okay, I'm 41 now, but they're like 95%
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of our church is under the age of 40. And then we look over to this other church that's got this
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massive parking lot filled with cars. And we live in a retirement city. So Prescott, Arizona very
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much has lots of, we are essentially the Florida of the West, okay? And we look over at this other
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parking lot and you see Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops and shorts, and they're doing night
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at the movies or at the movies series on Sunday morning and trying to explain how Shrek preaches
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the gospel or whatever. And they have this building that their rent is like $15,000 a month.
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And sure, they've been around a lot longer than us, but it was this really incredible contrast.
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and i'm thinking oh my gosh like if we just had one uh faithful boomer that was you know giving
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you know a thousand bucks a month i mean it would like change our entire church we were
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barely making rent and and so i mean i always think about like if we just had one boomer who
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owned their home you know today's homes especially the homes here there's hardly any homes that are
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less than a million dollars um and if they were to leave their estate to the church like it would
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change our entire church forever. But again, these boomers are not in these kind of reformed, strong,
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historic, bold, conservative, patriarchal churches. They're just not. And my hope is that we would
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have more of those boomers turn and be at these. We need you. We need your wisdom.
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them. We need your financial support, but don't come here if you're a coward, right? Don't come
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here if you're a coward. And I can't tell you. I mean, literally this has happened several times.
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I remember I actually had an entire row of boomers visiting our church, all gray hair,
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and they were in the back row. And I started preaching a section in my sermon about homosexuality
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and they all got up. Just this last weekend, I was preaching on Genesis chapter nine on the curse
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of Ham or the curse of Canaan and talking about Noah's three sons and how that interacts with
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race and nationalism. And we had a boomer couple that right when the sermon was done, they got up
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and they didn't even do communion. It has been a consistent pattern. We cannot keep the boomer
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generation. I don't know if it's just they don't have the hermeneutical ability to interpret the
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times digitally with the internet world, if they're just not aware of what's happening,
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or if they're just still stuck so heavily in the fog of the post-war consensus.
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But yeah, we need the boomers. Our young people are barely getting by. And so
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So we need, and that's the problem, having a church that we have is that we have a whole
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And so whenever we speak against the post-war consensus on feminism, on multiculturalism,
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homosexuality, immigration, Israel, the boomers just leave.
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And so as a result, the strong, faithful churches remain poor.
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And again, I'm saying this, by the way, as a man who has only taken four or five paychecks
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over the last three and a half, four years, I don't basically take a salary at our church.
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We'll sometimes take a stipend every six months or every 10 months or something like that.
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And so, yeah, I'm not saying this because I need people to come to our church to give
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No, we've been bivocational this whole time.
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And so we just want boomers so that we can have a building,
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so that we can do these things and start working.
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a first-time house is now 40 years old. And this is insane because there was a stat that was
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showing that the number of people who would own a home and be married, I think in 1950s,
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was somewhere around 50%. And now it's around 12%. So 12% of people by the age of 30 are married
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own home. I mean, that's how much things have changed. We have such a crazy shift in every
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dimension of life. And again, we know the policies that have done that. And now we have talked
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about the people. So that is a wrap for this episode. You can follow me on X, Instagram,
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