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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of all the concerning trends in American politics right now, the juvenile arrogance of today\u2019s millennials and Gen Zers must rank near the top of anyone\u2019s list.<\/p>\n

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Just look at any social media thread on any given day and the proof reveals itself in spades.<\/p>\n

The junior high\u2013ish attitude of, as Bill Maher calls them, \u201cthe kids,\u201d is legion, and it exists on both the right and the left. Whether it\u2019s the \u201cGroypers\u201d of Nick Fuentes or the addled acolytes of AOC, the valley-girl cattiness of our rising generation is pervasive.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter what the topic is; they know more. Suggest that socialism has never worked and never will, and their response is, \u201cOK, boomer.\u201d Point out that no nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity, and yep, you guessed it: \u201cOK, boomer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Argue that if you really want to follow the science, you might want to start with acknowledging the biological fact of what it means to be male and female: \u201cOK, boomer.\u201d Make clear that it might be a good idea to stop an Islamic regime hell-bent on your death and destruction from acquiring nuclear weapons: \u201cOK, boomer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list goes on and on. There literally seems to be no topic about which \u201cthe kids\u201d don\u2019t know more than anyone else. Whether it\u2019s climate change, masking, vaccines, sexual identity, fiscal policy, education, the Electoral College, parenting, packing the courts, Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder, Mossad, marriage or morality, the response is always the same: \u201cOK, boomer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thoughtlessness of the rejoinder is stunning. It\u2019s as if an entire generation (or two) has been brainwashed to dismiss reality, logic and any semblance of rational thought and to simply respond with a flip of the hair, a roll of the eyes and, yes, the mindless and, oh so predictable, \u201cOK, boomer.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you have a sense of deja vu here, you should. Stories of the pitfalls of youthful arrogance are as old as time.<\/p>\n

Whether it be the medieval tale of the Pied Piper playing his music as all the children of Hamelin dance off to their death or the story of Robespierre rallying the know-it-all twentysomethings of France to cut off everyone\u2019s heads, the moral is the same: A bunch of uninformed and poorly educated perpetual Peter Pans can be easily manipulated to do just about anything, even if the end result is their own neck in the guillotine.<\/p>\n

Consider the cautionary tale of Mao\u2019s Red Guard. Anyone who has even a mediocre public-school education should know it.<\/p>\n

In 1966, Chairman Mao Zedong recognized that one of the best ways to bend his country to his political will was to exploit the idealism and ignorance of the Chinese youth. Mao knew that the poorly informed idealism of his own \u201cGen Z-ers\u201d could be easily manipulated to consolidate his power and crush his opposition.<\/p>\n

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In other words, he understood very well that the analogy of \u201cuseful idiots\u201d that Bogdan Raditsa coined in October 1946 was spot on and that he could easily use such fools to his advantage.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what he did. Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Mao \u201cplayed\u201d his nation\u2019s youth like a fiddle. He rallied Chinese teenagers and college students to foment chaos. As his young proteges worked feverishly to completely dismantle all that their parents had left them, he sat back and watched Rome burn.<\/p>\n

This is the way one writer summarizes it. \u201cMao manipulated them, channeling their idealism [and ignorance] into a mass political weapon \u2026 He encouraged the students to attack traditions and weaken rivals \u2026 He used their sense of superiority. He amplified it through propaganda \u2026 and once mobilized, he pushed the youth to denounce teachers, party officials, intellectuals, and even their own parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mao was the master puppeteer of what was essentially the \u201cOK, boomer\u201d movement of his time, one that resulted in millions of people being killed and or imprisoned.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the take-home that today\u2019s \u201csmarter-than-thou\u201d social media influencers seem to miss. Among the millions marched off to their deaths were the students themselves.<\/p>\n

Why? Because Mao knew only too well how dangerous the untethered arrogance of the ignorant masses was \u2014 and so he used the power they had given him to forcibly \u201crelocate\u201d them to \u201creeducation camps\u201d where they would either conform as obedient lemmings or die in hard labor.<\/p>\n

George Santayana once warned, \u201cHe who doesn\u2019t learn the lessons of history is doomed to repeat them,\u201d and G.K. Chesterton chimed in: \u201cThe old man is always wrong, and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, that our next generation takes a spoonful of humility and listens to the likes of Chesterton, Santayana and even their own parents and grandparents, for just two seconds before reflexively typing, \u201cOK, boomer\u201d to this article.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of \u201cNot a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth\u201d (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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