“I am an older American man and what I see called men pale in comparison to the men I grew up around. “
perhaps because your generation didn’t teach em?
I started very young in the family business. There are few men alive, and I mean very few who have done what I and the men I worked with did. There is no way I could impart what knowledge I have because the techniques we used, while dangerous at times, are no longer legal. How can you past on to a child when the hardest work he has ever done is riding a lawn mower, the concept that the work we did was like a daily IQ test, if you survived the day you passed, if you died you failed, the more common view then was when it is your time to go, it is your time to go and there is nothing you can do about it. How do you pass that fatalistic view on and would you even want to?
How do you pass on the idea that any work is honorable in this day and these times, when gaudy excess is considered something to aspire to?
I blame my generation for the useless offspring wandering around with toy phones because we raised their parents and gave them things they did not earn. I am a boomer and most of what is wrong with this country is our selfish fault. Someone my age told me that we were the greatest generation, and she was serious. I did set her straight and I am sure it did no good. We were, as a group, the most foolish generation this country ever produced with the exception of our half wit children and grandchildren, not all, there are exceptions but as a group.