Indeed—grievance politics has spoiled history, the liberal arts, and public education all the way down to the primary grades. It’s all that they know which isn’t true that is even more appalling than that they haven’t been exposed to so many truths.
Also, they probably are less responsible than you were at age 12 too.
“Also, they probably are less responsible than you were at age 12 too.”
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I chuckled when I read that, my parents would have told you when I was twelve that I was as lazy as I could be but when I think back I realize that I was already a capable farmhand. I pulled my end of a long two man saw to cut firewood, I split it with an axe, I hauled it to the woodpile with a horse and a groundsled. I carried it in to the woodbox. I walked the fields behind that horse during my summer “vacation”, alternating with my older brother. When the horse died I switched to a mule, my father bought two mules so my brother and I could both plow at the same time. I hoed cotton, I picked cotton, I pulled fodder, I pulled corn and hauled it to the barn with a one horse wagon. I dug ditches with a shovel. I pickecd and shelled beans and peas, I picked tomatoes, I picked up sweet potatoes and white potatoes, I loaded cantaloupes that were the size of watermelons I see in the stores now. I loaded watermelons that weighed fifty pounds each. It goes on and on, I doubt that you could hire a young boy now to do what I did if you paid him twenty dollars an hour.