When Will They Ever Learn?

After reading Kay Hymowitz's Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, I have decided that as Stephane Courtois (and others) chronicled in detail the devastation wrought by Communism in The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, someone needs to similarly chronicle the destruction in our society brought about by the Baby Boomers. The negative impact that the "Sixties Generation" has had on America's bedrock institutions--government, education, churches, and yes, marriage--cannot be overstated, to say nothing of what their self-absorbed "rebellion" has done to our culture. Shared morality, relations between the sexes, child rearing, a common sense of public decency, etc. The list could (and should) go on and on. "The Black Book Of Boomerism" is my working title.

In addition to describing the damage that marriage has sustained at the hands of the "Love Generation," Hymowitz provides a concise history of marriage in the United States, pointing out how it came to take on a particularly American meaning and purpose. She also provides one of the strongest non-religiously based arguments against gay marriage, essentially saying that just because we've denigrated and demeaned the institution of marriage in the last forty years, it doesn't mean that it's time to deliver what very well could be the coup de grace. Instead of putting the patient out of its misery, she wants to revive the traditional meaning and importance of marriage because it is essential to a healthy society.

Those who carp about "two Americas" would do well to read Marriage and Caste In America to discover what the real divide is all about and why marriage is critical in changing the dynamics of poverty and dependency. You can hear Kay Hymowitz discuss her book this Saturday at noon on the Northern Alliance Radio Network. Listen locally on AM-1280 The Patriot or live on the internet stream.

JB Opines:
Didn't Scott Johnson's personal friend David Horowitz write "Destructive Generation" about the effect of the Boomers?

Btw, there should be an entire chapter in your book devoted to "Rock and Roll" and how it has become the defacto music of our culture due to the Boomers cramming classic rock down our troats for years.

They must pay for Bob Seger.