Couple of good Z-man posts

FYI. If you aren't reading the Z-man most days, you probably should. Monday is the best day to hit him up, because he has his normal column on his Wordpress site, but also a second column at Taki's Magazine.

https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=26406

https://www.takimag.com/article/a-new-threat/

Anyway, again; I don't always love the Z-man. My biggest points of disagreement with him are 1) his secular, anti-religious viewpoint. He fails to recognize, or at least fails to personally consider, the primary place that Christianity must occupy in order to have any well-running society that has even a passing resemblance to Western Civilization, and 2) he's got the peculiar failing of my Generation-x cohort in feeling like taking a pose of bemused detachment while the world we know burns down around us is the only reasonable action to take. Obviously that's not true. Now, granted, I don't know what action to take that would actually be useful, but I'm at least looking for an opportunity to find one that has some merit, I'm not sitting around preaching that nothing can or should be done except wait for the world to collapse and then say that I told you so.

In spite of these two failings, he does tend to usually hit the nail on the head otherwise with considerable accuracy and charisma. And actually, I don't know that he's really from Gen-X or not, although his attitude certainly sounds like it. Somehow I always imagined him as a bit older than me. I'm a bit on the younger side of Generation X (at least until marketers decided to throw Generation Y into Generation X, or the Millennials, depending) but I somehow kind of imagined that the Z-man was Generation Jones.

As an aside, I'm a little irked that Generation Jones and Generation Y seem to have been swallowed up by some kind of advertising consensus. Pretending that Generation Jones is just younger and significantly different cohort within the Baby Boomers or the early Generation Xers, or that Generation Y is just a cohort within either Generation X or the Millennials, but which is completely different than either is just stupid. There were already labels in place. Were they too confusing for some idiot CEO of an advertising company, or something?