Dennis is on vacation still, but I can't help but comment.

And so I'm still on break. I have a ton I'd say about kids stealing and rationalizing it, and my bewilderment that Dennis is actually astonished at this phenomenon. Mainly I'd like to say why I think the percentage of thieves has increased.

But Dennis has finally got to that point himself. "You were raised by my generation," he tells a caller, "which was the dumbest generation in history." This was my generation, too, though I would say the current group of 15-to-25's is MUCH dumber largely because the education system no longer thinks expanding children's horizons is a good thing and is even actively standing against it. Then he adds, "entitlement is a given".

My stupid generation learned "There is no such thing as right or wrong" from our teachers, who were so "enlightened" they believed stupid-ass stuff like this. When my generation grew up many many of the dumbest of them became social workers (white liberals love nothing so much as "taking care" of black poor people) and teachers (the career that inferior white liberals choose most often). As teachers they amplified on the stupidity, making up new and improved intellectual garbage out of thin air, and thus "Everyone has to decide for himself what is right and wrong" was taught as a rock-hard fact with which there was no possibility of arguing. So was "there is no such thing as truth," which they would have understood as self-refuting twaddle if they hadn't been so stupid themselves.

The generation the hippies taught is now taking over the schools. Like the perfect, well-formed, utterly ignorant nitwits they have been raised to be, they're also making insane decisions about what to teach and how to teach it. Dennis has seen some of the insanity but I do not think he truly understands it, especially since the theories are so unbelievably absurd, the thinking so absent, the reasoning so vapid--in short, Americans are from Earth, their teachers are from Jupiter.