{"id":14104,"date":"2020-01-01T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=14104"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:53:49","slug":"an-identity-crisis-of-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/an-identity-crisis-of-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"An Identity Crisis of a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ten years flew by for no good reason at all. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The American SPECTATOR<\/strong>, by Daniel J. Flynn<\/a> — December 31, 2019, 12:01 AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A transgender \u201cman\u201d just gave birth<\/a> to a child named Jamie in Great Britain fathered by a transgender \u201cwoman.\u201d This seems a fitting coda to the 2010s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decade in search of an identity passes mercifully at midnight. It began with the first black president. It ended with the first orange president. Many of the same people who voted for hope and change cast ballots to make America great again. Along the way, Americans joined tea parties, occupied Wall Street, wore red MAGA hats, and proclaimed that black lives mattered. People seeking to lose their individuality found mass movements more than eager to subsume their identities in the glob.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We liked Star Wars, Star Trek, and A Star Is Born the first time. Naturally, a decade without its own identity resurrected them, and The Lion King, Hawaii Five-O, Dallas, The A-Team, Planet of the Apes, Beverly Hills 90210, and so much else for parasitic purposes. Septuagenarians selling nostalgia, and nostalgia several generations removed at that, dominated the concert circuit. Whoever said, \u201cKeep the past in the past,\u201d never said it to the 2010s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victimhood impressed in the 2010s. Bad actor Jussie Smollett won no Emmys pretending that Trump supporters who watched Empire recognized him in the early morning hours of a Chicago enveloped in a polar vortex, and proceeded to beat him, hurl racial and anti-homosexual slurs at him, put a noose around his neck, and pour bleach upon him as he ventured into the night in search of a submarine sandwich. An American Indian portrayed himself as a human shield protecting four older black men from enraged MAGA-hat wearing Covington Catholic high school students on a field trip to Washington; the full video showed Black Israelites hurling slurs at the boys and the Native American approaching them with a drum bizarrely banged at too-close-for-comfort range. The media naturally went with what flattered their prejudices and discarded common sense and video evidence. #Narratives. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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