Occupy LA Gets Told to Vacate
12-04-2011
- by Cynthia Tooredman, conservativeincalifornia.com
The windstorms in my part of California had me up half the night trying to keep the windows from blowing open and spending an hour this morning clearing approximately 2/5 of a large pine tree out of my driveway so I could get out and go to work. I had no power at home so I checked my email at work and got two pieces of great news. 1) Occupy Los Angeles has finally been evicted from its nauseating camp . 2) There’s a video of Adam Carolla (formerly of The Man Show) that’s proven its appeal by going viral overnight.

What a glorious rant! Not since Rick Santelli's "rant heard 'round the world" that launched the tea party movement has someone given voice so perfectly to the collective thoughts of everybody who works for a living and understands that they are not entitled to a permanent vacation. To see it for yourself, Google Adam Carolla tears OWS Millennials a New One.



Adam Carolla gets it. I’ve been referring to this pack of brats (even before they started occupying public spaces) as the Indignantly Entitled Generation.

It goes back to their childhoods as Carolla points out. Sweet Kindergarten teachers heap on the praise when one of the kids shows up and breathes. And instead of a good old-fashioned swat on the ass when one of the little darlings force-feeds Playdoh ® to his classmate, he gets a talking to about the feelings of others. And the tearful kid, who has just yakked up a glob of clay, gets forced to hear an insincere apology.

Parents are brought in to “conference” about these incidents so the educrats can lecture them about how to properly parent to instill the maximum amount of self-esteem.

Lazy kids are labeled with multiple learning disabilities or ADHD or Bi-Polar and given Individual Education Plans to help them get through some semblance of school. The experts are brought in to dispense stimulants or anti-depressants depending on what diagnosis is in vogue at the time.

Basically, the kid is surrounded by attentive adults when he behaves badly. What do you think he learns?

When I was a kid, there were three reading groups in my 3rd-grade class. If you were in the slow group, you knew it. But you could move into the advanced group if you demonstrated you were reading at that level. Such an achievement gives a kid actual self-esteem, not the sense of shame he feels on hearing unearned praise.



When children go through most of their young lives receiving unearned praise, extra attention for bad behavior, and equal rewards to what the truly talented, brilliant, or hard workers receive, they are going to grow up believing simultaneously that they are a piece of crap and that the world should revolve around them. Most people resolve this bit of cognitive dissonance by denying the "piece of crap" part and by becoming belligerent about what they believe the world owes them. Some add membership in a grievance group to this revolting psychological stew.

And there you have an OWS demonstrator. He just graduated from a private university (that either his indulgent parents or an even more indulgent government paid for) and he’s angry that he can’t find a high-paying job that will keep him in the style his parents worked 30 years to achieve.

God forbid he should take a service job or an entry level job in the field he wants to get into like people did in generations past. He’s entitled to more. His parents and teachers have always told him so.

God forbid he should live in a studio apartment and live off rice and beans—not pre-packaged rice and beans but the kind that come in plastic bags, the kind that the beans have to be soaked overnight before being boiled for an hour. He’s entitled to nourishing food and a balanced diet and if his parents can’t or won’t provide it, the taxpayers will be forced to through food stamps.

I was at a mental health professionals' conference recently. During a breakout session, one of the younger attendees asked the presenter "What is the state doing to help us advance our education?" The presenter answered sympathetically and I sat there in amazement that this is what it’s come to. It’s now just taken for granted—at least in the People’s Republic of California—that advanced education is one of the things the state should provide.



The envy voiced by these OWS protestors is the natural characterological result of what’s been driven out of our culture: the Ten Commandments and a consequent common understanding of right and wrong. Envy and jealousy used to be shameful character traits you'd try to hide if you felt them rattling their cages in your soul. No longer. Now all your friends will join you in chanting about them and in crapping on another person's property that happens to be nicer than what you have.

They blame capitalism for what they don’t have when it’s obvious that only capitalism could provide the financial support, the take-it-for-granted ease of life, and the permissive society that would countenance these brats. I’ve noticed there’s no Occupy Riyadh or Occupy Havana or Occupy Beijing. Neither kings nor commies like free speech.

by Cynthia Tooredman
Political Commentator and Owner of conservativeincalifornia.com

Tags:   occupy los angeles  occupy wall street  police break up occupy protest  occupy wall street downtown los angeles  

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