What If There Are No Adults?

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

[Smokin' Joe]

And if parents tried to require school aged children to do a couple of hours of serious chores every day, or go to bed without dinner, the parents would be charged with child abuse, and the children hauled away by "social services".

Sadly, in many places that is true. Then the real abuse begins.

It is a pity those people did not stop with the clear-cut cases of abuse and remain usefull, rather than seek to raise the bar and make themselves 'indispensible' to all. Many are well enough intentioned, but their logic is deeply flawed. Some reasonable level of adversity is not only not abuse, but builds character. The absence of adversity fosters decadence.

[Iris7]

Your savings rate shows self discipline.

Often, but not always, certainly, a person angry with a "class" (as used to be said) of persons was especially angry with a certain small group of persons, or even an individual member, of this aforementioned class. I would not be surprised if this were true in your case, since I have had even more experience with "boomers" as individuals, and certainly the group contains a large portion of horse's behinds. My words are excessively generous.

It is also true that great civilizational decay has and will occur. Also true that the safety, comfort, smug self satisfaction, etc. that we have all experienced is impossible to prop up much longer.

The absurd speculation in houses on the coasts shows signs of passing it's peak. Truly bad credit risks are getting huge loans merely for the asking.

The causes of this situation are many, and include the demand by enough of the electorate that government deliver an "increasing standard of living." The whole affair, now in the absurdity phase, has roots deep in the past.

Credit creation has become manic because "the Fed" will bail everyone out, householders too. Or so it is hoped. The economy produces fewer innovations, fewer competitive goods, and uses much more paper every year.

God is just. Abortion is as great an evil as there is. To "pass your children through the fire" is a terrible sin.

I have children your age, and as a dad I worry about them. The situation looks uncertain and strenuous. "Wars and rumors of wars", as has been said. Famine, disease, war, and death, the Four Horsemen, will certainly ride again.

Personally, I have been trying to fix this absurd cluster (put as crude an expression as possible here) all of my life, with only the most meager success. Better fortune to you.

[Jaysun]

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.

People used to overestimate my age by about 15 years, but it's slowed to about 5 now. I like to think it's because I'm wise beyond my years and not because of hard living and insomnia. But who gives a damn - I bagged a good looking dame years ago and we she turns sixty I'm trading her in for two thirties! ;o)

[HamiltonJay]

Thin Skin? Like the pot calling the kettle black isn't it?

Don't have to like it, but reality is, the bulge in they python generation of largely spoiled brats, have created a mess that is going to take at least 2 generations to clean up.

Sooner that Generation is gone, sooner the world can get back to normal.

Don't have to like it, but that's the way it is.