What If There Are No Adults?

AlbertMohler.Com ^ | Aug 19, 2005 | Albert Mohler

[Iris7]

Ah hah! So you want me dead, eh? Aren't you a charmer. What a thin skin you have.

Respect has to be deserved. To be taken seriously I suggest you change.

[Iris7]

The title of this thread is "What if there are no adults?"

Your point of view shows that, indeed, perhaps there aren't any new adults replacing the old ones. However, I know this is not the case from experience.

In any case, I found your self absorption and self pity amusing. Your shock at being scorned so human. Your willingness to wish others dead so typical of the species. Ah, the urge to power.

Some free advice for you to scorn. Guess what. You have not found anything new. The past is dead, gone, and only rubble remains. Rubble is all we ever have to build with. Been that way a long, long time.

[Iris7]

True enough. The "public schools" are a horrible disaster, a sort of a Dennis Rader - BTK with a happy face grin. Private schools are not really any better. Same bunch of people run those too.

Been trying to reach this "thoughtomater" guy, who is obviously scared to death. "Vulnerable and frightened", as you put it.

I suppose his upbringing brought him to where he is today, but now he is a man, or should be, and he must take responsibility for his own character. He has a long ways to go. Sad? Sure. All that is left that might help him he will resent violently.

Pearls before swine, I guess.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
--------- Alexander Pope.

[Chili Girl]

Nothing hurts like the truth!

[Iris7]

Oh, urge to kill!! I love it. Out of the closet, hey??

I know that you guys are morally, intellectually, and emotionally maimed. The only person who is going to fix it is you.

[Iris7]

You are not going to reach the lad with kindness. Either he can fix himself or he just won't get fixed. Probably the latter.

[Iris7]

Around here the people think their kids are benefiting from the grade school - high school experience. Actually, they are lying to themselves, and on some level know this. Mostly, they just don't know what to do, and put off thinking about it because it makes them feel helpless.

[SLB]

Nothing hurts like the truth!

Amen

[russesjunjee]

I'm glad you have an optimistic view of the economy, but it all just sounds like republican propaganda to me. I have learned the hard way that what the GOP says is going on in this country is a far cry from what's really going on.

We should all know by now that the Dems and Repubs are just two sides of the same worthless coin. Statistics don't lie, but statistics can be skewed and twisted to present whatever point of view the powers that be want them to.

This argument about where the economy is going is redundant at best. We will just have to wait and see what is really going to happen. For the sake of this country I hope that your optimistic view is the right one.

Ping me when either this false economic bubble bursts, or when things are booming again, and one of us will get to tell the other "I told you so."

[russesjunjee]

Your right. It does make you feel helpless. I know what its like to be forced to send your child to a public school when you know its not the best thing for them. My child has to go to public school, but at least I can keep a close eye on things.

[nmh]

Very good post.

Thank you for introducing me to another fine author.

[Jaysun]

Those that delay adulthood to live in a selfish fantasy land are in for a rude shock when they're finally made to grow up. As the article states, some chose to never become adults. These people are worthless and will never have anything useful to add.

[SLB]

Thank you for introducing me to another fine author.

I listen to the audio stream from his web page of his commentary every day during lunch. I have yet to find one I did not agree with.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

I think part of it may be that we're living longer...people are staying in school longer, or going to college later, getting married later, etc...if you look at old movies and TV shows, people in their 30's already looked old, at a time when the average lifespan was about sixty. Better health and medical advances are making us look and feel younger. That doesn't mean that you have to act immature, however.

[TexasKamaAina]

Perhaps a related observation is that there are very few men about these days. They're all "guys" or "dudes". Guys and dudes don't have the responsibility, and authority, that men have.

Couldn't agree more. I've told my daughters to look for men and stay away from guys.

[Iris7]

"Most of my post-tax income goes directly to savings awaiting the day when housing prices come back to reality."

Since "most of my post-tax income goes to savings" then you must have almost no expenses. This means you live with your parents.

By how you argue, you are what, maybe fourteen years old? Or twenty five going on fourteen? If you ARE literally fourteen then I have been a little hard on you.

"Enquiring minds want to know."

[thoughtomator]

No. I make a lot of money and live a monk-like existence with no family to support. I was more fortunate than my peers and something I took naturally to was an unusually well-paying skill, thus my income goes approximately 40% taxes, 20% expenses, 40% savings.

[Iris7]

"If ones only career choices are being a cashier at Walmart or a welfare king/queen than this country is more screwed than I thought it was."

Lots of people think being a Wal-Mart cashier is a pretty darn good job. Making a guess, about one fifth of the working population. Get to know these people and you will agree with me. By the way, they vote Democrat when they vote.

[Iris7]

I thought old Jean-Jacques Rousseau was common knowledge.

Certainly Rousseau was the God father of the "Enlightenment" (what a misnomer). By the way, the Soviets saw Rousseau as an important step on the road to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Gorbachev pointed this out.

Actually it goes back much further. I like to refer to Abelard. Another tidbit is that More's Utopia is a "brutal Swiftian satire" on romanticism and it's ugly step child, the Left.

To be part of a group, most every person's desire, the group's worldview must be internalized. This is obvious in politics, in an office, or in a public school. Thought must use the group's grasp on reality, it's world view, it's metaphorical foundation, whatever you want to call it, and not deviate from it no matter how much reality differs from the group's understanding. Shoot, that is what we are doing right here, right now.

Human nature.

[Lancey Howard]