WHAT FILTER ?

Of all my professors, tutors and gurus (and I have been fortunate to have many) the wisest one told me:

"All the information you ever get will be filtered and affected and colored by the inescapable filtering."

".... And that includes THIS advice !"

So, I asked him: "Does that mean that all information is somehow flawed and untrustworthy ?"

"No !" He said sternly. "But after you were eight or nine years old, you have had a responsibility-- which will become heavier every year of your life-- to separate the obviously and demonstrably true from the trapping and crippling lies and misrepresentations."

I have learned that this was true and that its application to mothers and fathers and myriad kinfolk was valid--- though painful.

Most good writing and thinking revolves around this rather paradoxical imperative. Therefore, there IS a lot of assistance available in separating grace from treachery especially during the first two decades of one's life.

Without separating and identifying every disappointing confidant, every glib seducer and every False God for identification and damnation, it is enough to look back and see that they were there-- the "filters", I mean--Not just the human fallibility.

Old-timers like my uncle Pat had sayings, like..." His britches don't hang right"... And, "He looks at you kinda Sqwaunrch-eyed !"

Shakespeare and Baudelaire are rich with similes and identifications of the turncoat, scammer and flimflam man. One of the more famous results of these literary total damnations is that some 21-year-olds protect themselves by identifying a liar as one "whose lips move" when he confides a plan.

All of this is preparation for a plea for mercy toward some of the snowflakes and millennial's now in violent disaffection to things we older folk have held... Well....Sacred, I guess is the word.


No generation has ever been battered by so much Bullspit Hoopla and unembarrassed false Deities and promises.


A major sad paradox is that a large proportion of these youngsters have never seen "The Filter" that separates the existence of evil, the immutability of the market in human interaction and the absolute necessity for dependence on a power greater than any human power in times of duplicity; hatred and conspiracy.

Therefore, they turn to the familiar mesmerizing Hive and its soothing repetitive Hum of divisive unthinking "Progressive" protest against anything that will give parents and grandparents Disorders ranging from dyspepsia to suicide.

In their whole lives, these young people have never had a challenge to The Filter that rules their emotions and commands those emotions to shun and distrust  "Reason" or debate.

Their  Filter disallows any challenge by branding disciplinary warning as "yelling at me". And they are protected from all the natural abrasions of social acculturation by their untouchable sacrosanct "self-esteem".  Most of them nowadays have never had a failing grade in school.

That is one huge filter, albeit the worst kind, not imposed by a maturing self... But stealthily imposed by the noxious progressive Hive of educationoids and PC Ghouls.

Genuine maturation and education are dead and gone until we give the infant, the toddler, the prepubescent and the teenager the freedom to suffer consequences of choices and the grandeur of learning to CHOOSE the filters that  shape human destinies.