Our younger generation is bored, and their boredom might destroy Western Civilization.

I don’t think I can recall all the episodes of Star Trek where some kids, bad guys, or stowaways took over the Enterprise or a planet. They didn’t know how to run things, and their actions nearly brought about complete destruction. How many times did Mr. Scott warn about the antimatter chamber overheating or dilithium crystals becoming dangerously unstable? Just as a child can sit in the driver’s seat of his parents' car, he has no clue how to drive or how to make a dozen decisions a minute during difficult traffic in the middle of a nighttime thunderstorm.

The younger generation pining to take over the US via the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) never experienced World War II or Vietnam. They were born into great wealth; their standard of living would have been reserved for the wealthiest few only a few decades ago. I remember seeing an old Bogart movie where he used a phone in his car; at the time, it was the last word in wealth. Today, everyone whips out a smartphone, and what’s the big deal? In the original Home Alone, Harry asks Marv how the kid is going to call the cops from a tree house. It was a great gag. Today, kids wouldn’t understand what the issue is. “You only had a landline with a badly tangled cord in the kitchen? How quaint!”

People are only as serious as the times require them to be. The average age of a US soldier in World War II was 26. At that age, I was finishing up graduate school, trying to figure out where to do the next phase of my academic training. Many Americans at that age are after college and working some job. Some are in medical school, while some percentage do join the armed forces. A 26-year-old in the bocage in France was wondering if there were snipers in the trees ahead of his platoon. He thought about his friends........

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