Victor Davis Hanson: America’s ‘Dead, Lost Generation’

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

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What was America like before rapid industrialization and suburbanization, which dramatically altered the way of life in the United States? Critical race theory and DEI proponents look down on this period in American history, which stretched through much of the early to mid-20th century, saying it was an era marred by “white supremacy” and the “KKK.” That couldn’t be further from the truth, argues Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words. “But what I'm getting is, everybody got together, they were ethnically and racially diverse, there was no prejudice. Or if there was, it was incidental, not essential to farming. And all that world has been not only gone with the industrial age and corporate farming and the agrarianism that inculcated those values, but we have slurred those dead people, that dead lost generation. We've said that they were sexist, racist, homophobes, and they had it easy, they had privilege, they were supremacists. They weren't. They weren't. They had nothing. And they worked day to night. And they gave us a set of values: hard work, follow the law, listen more than you speak, don't shame your family, and don't treat people by their superficial appearance, or the color of their skin, or their accent, but the content of their character.” Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqkXbgqrDrDVInBMSoGQgQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	And I want to talk about a lost agrarian world and what it was like before the rapid
0:35.1	industrialization and suburbanization of America and the values.
0:39.8	I want to do that because we have all of these misconceptions and all of this
0:45.4	indoctrination and all this ideological bias about the past.
0:49.6	And all that world has been not only gone with the industrial age and corporate farming and
0:55.0	the agrarianism that inculcated those values, but we have slurred those dead people, that dead
1:00.1	lost generations.
1:01.3	We've said that they were sexist, racist, homophobes, and they had it easy, they had privilege,
1:06.0	they were supremac.
1:07.0	They weren't.
1:08.0	They weren't. They weren't. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. I'd like to do something a little bit different. I want to talk about a lost agrarian world and what it was like before the rapid industrialization and suburbanization of America and the values. I want to do that because we have all of these misconceptions and all of this indoctrination and all this
1:47.0	ideological bias about the past. I just like to get a personal take very quickly. You know,
1:53.2	when talk about this white monolithic racist society that has to be overturned under DEI,
1:59.0	but let me go back to 1960.
2:02.3	I was born here where I'm speaking on 125, 30 acres of a family farm that had been
2:08.9	in my family since 1870.
2:12.0	But my point is this, over where I'm pointing out, there was a farm run by Harry Gasegian.
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