JournalKenneth WebbCommon-sense, London Times, Farewell to an old friend, Generation Z

Generation Z

JournalKenneth WebbCommon-sense, London Times, Farewell to an old friend, Generation Z
Generation Z

Journal

Volume 2

(formerly published as ‘Farewell to an Old Friend’)

PUBLISHED in the London Times as an Obituary, no comment or footnote is required.

We are a very peculiar people. We stand indicted.

When right becomes left, and left becomes right, when normal becomes abnormal and abnormal becomes normal, when that which is wrong is deemed right, and that which is right is adjudged most definitely wrong, then we are in the scales and being weighed … and how does that dictum go? and was adjudged to be found wanting’. Sorry Generation Z. I know you’re slow on the uptake. That means you’ve not hit the high bar, or any bar for that matter, excepting, of course, the few.

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Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool and Gloucestershire

June 6, 2022
All Rights Reserved

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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022

One of the Fifteen Founding Members of the Leaders Lodge

First written March 13, 2021

Please note that I am not the person who wrote this Obituary even though I can recall a time when ‘common sense prevailed’.

In this morning’s news, I’m informed that we now have Generation Z, a useful title, I think, for the five step-children. KTW

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.

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WHEN I COMMENCED these dispatches I did so as part of my journal, for future material, and part of my family’s archive. Something that descendants might peek into half a century from now … …

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Journal | Dispatches ~ What Were They?
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Journal | Re-Writing History and Racism ~ NUCLEAR!

…and they demanded the statue be removed
…then they demanded the people be barred
…then they demanded the books be burned
…then they demanded the … unthinkable

JournalKenneth WebbGeneral Robert E Lee American Confederate, Edward Colston, Mob Rule, Black American, Indigenous American, Confederate America, LD 117, D 117
Journal | Re-Writing History and Racism ~ NUCLEAR!
JournalKenneth WebbHistory of the English-Speaking Peoples, Julius Caesar, Cassivellaunus

Journal | The English-Speaking Peoples

… … At school I learned about the slave trade. The emphasis was on William Wilberforce and the Abolitionists. In our lessons we compared and contrasted the old English-speaking peoples with the new English-speaking peoples (the new world), and America did not come off well, as we learned of the American Civil War and the Ku Klux Klan, the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior and of Rosa Parks.

What I did not learn about was Britain's own culpability in the slave trade, and there was never any mention of the compensation payment of £20 million (today £17 billion) to the slave owners. Nor were we told that … …

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Journal | The English-Speaking Peoples