Posted on 06/04/2015 10:44:20 AM PDT by Aspenhuskerette
It’s not a “Mad Max” world into which students are graduating, but it’s a mad, mad one, fraught with genocidal fanaticism, proliferating scandals and morally deficient leadership.
As terrorists claimed swaths of Iraq and Syria for the Islamic State, and “death to America”-seeking Iran crept closer to nuclear-weapons capability, recent headlines featured indictments of international soccer officials at FIFA and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Distrust of civil institutions pervades society.
Meanwhile, the conflicts of interest surrounding Hillary Clinton prompted CNN’s Jon King to note, “You can’t go 20 minutes ... without some story ... that gives you a little bit of the creeps.” Will Americans ignore behavior in the presidential candidate that they’d normally deem reprehensible?
The question before graduates is whether they’ll “party on” — accepting a world of imperiled liberties and moral retreat — or whether they’ll Think Again and try to improve it.
Can a generation more informed about Bruce Jenner’s transformation than our Constitution adhere to our democracy’s founding principle that “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” as Benjamin Franklin insisted?
Will iPhone-era Americans raised in the freest, richest and most decent society the world has ever known demand the civic trust, honesty and accountability on which America’s extraordinariness has depended?
(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...
Advice to grads....
If you haven’t spent the last two years of college networking, doing internships or figuring out what industry you want to work in, or you have taken classes that end in the world “studies”, or you don’t know what STEM means, then you are not ready for the real world.
You learned nothing, you wasted your parents money and you now have loans you will never afford to pay pack. Move into your parents basement, work in retail and pray you can handle it. Do anything but join the military. They don’t need you.
Good job.
Great article... especially from someone writing in the Aspen Times...
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