{"id":27644,"date":"2019-09-23T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27644"},"modified":"2019-09-23T22:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T02:11:44","slug":"the-vanity-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-vanity-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The vanity of youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a teenager in the \u201860\u2019s when Bob Dylan decided that the times were changing. I believed him. I thought my generation was going to make everything different. I suppose I was right to some extent: things are worse now.<\/p>\n

Bob Dylan put it this way:<\/p>\n

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
\nAnd don’t criticize what you can’t understand
\nYour sons and your daughters are beyond your command<\/p>\n

Your old road is rapidly aging<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bishop Susan Bell, having fallen under the spell of Greta Thunburg, says much the same thing. The Bishop is old enough to know better and, unlike, I suspect, Bob Dylan, believes the tripe she is peddling.<\/p>\n

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Here is the earnest Greta giving an impassioned \u2013 nay, hysterical \u2013 theatrical diatribe \u00a0 demonstrating the veracity of Ecclesiastes 1:9:<\/p>\n

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, \u201cSee, this is new\u201d? It has been already in the ages before us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n