[beyond the sea]

What If There Are No Adults?

There aren't many (any) in Congress.

[SLB]

Dr Mohler has a daily comment that is right on target 99.99% of the time.

[mhking]

What if there are no adults?

'Nuff said.

[SteveMcKing]

Today's "adults" live and build their lives so they can act like kids in their spare time, and also prevent their own kids from growing up as much as possible.

It's a horrible way to structure society, and it explains nearly all of our ills.

[Tax-chick]

Good article.

[Gefreiter]

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.

[DTogo]

Too much logic and common sense in this article...

[jigsaw]

Interesting article. While reading it, I kept thinking of liberals and how they refuse (or are unable) to grow
up and face reality. They have to live in their make-believe world of political correctness and no evil.

[sweet_diane]

interesting read ping

[in hoc signo vinces]

That's already a case study called the "Democratic Party".

[absolootezer0]

its all toy r us's fault with that silly song..
"i don't wanna grow up, i'm a toys r us kid..."
anyone got a pic of the giraffe to post?

[SteveMcKing]

"Many in this new generation demonstrate a willingness to buck the trend. They are the new pioneers of adulthood, and they will be uniquely qualified to influence their own peers and to reshape our own culture."

How will they ever succeed everytime they are medicated, sent to therapy, or even arrested for showing a slight bit of initiative and independence. Create a nanny state/dictatorship in your home or school life, and they will continue to be passive and ineffective as adults - or worse - go through that pathetic spat of rebellion at age 25 when they should have been done with it 10 years ago.

[caver]

We had no adults during the 8 years of Clinton.

[Puddleglum]

Jack Benny (who was pretending to be vain about his age) was perpetually 39. Imagine how silly that sounds today. It'd be 29 at least. There's your culture-shift indicator right there. I had a professor who thought for sure it was 29 that Benny said.

We live in a world of boy-men. I won't speak about women til my thoughts have gelled.

[hobbes1]

You were expecting maybe, Humphery Bogart??????

[Smokin' Joe]

I see a couple of factors at play here.

When we were kids, we were driving tractors in the fields at 7 (started at 5, but by 7 we could reach all the pedals), taking our own boat fishing, hunting deer by 10 (shot my first whitetail at 11), driving trucks around the farm by 12, working heavy construction and junior members of the Volunteer Fire Department by 14, Full members of the Fire Dept at 16 and running ambulance calls if we had the training. At 16 we had our driver's licenses, (14 in some areas), at 18 we could be officers in the Fire Department, albeit few higher than Lieutenant, were planting and cultivating crops, working as watermen or doing a "grown man's" job for a "grown man's" wage, some got married, and most had their High School Diploma. We were not counting on another 4 years of college and grad school beyond before we had to earn a living.

We embraced responsibility and thrived on the status it gave us in our community.

Nowadays you are prohibited by law from starting to do most of that sort of work until you are 18 or older.

If you want mature, responsible, adults, you have to let the children accept responsibility. If you prevent that and then hand them "self esteem" without accomplishment as a substitute, little good will come of it.

If you show them selfishness as a paradigm, do not be surprised if they turn out to be selfish and fail to mature. Why grow up when you can sponge off your elders?

[KosmicKitty]

Being an adult means one accepts responsibility for the consequences of one's action!!

Seems like one party tends to push an agenda of no personal responsibility.

Do anything you want, whenever you want, and if something bad happens, blame someone else (and call 1-800-Lawyer to get the money you are owed)

[TheForceOfOne]

Star Trek - The "children" of Miri's planet.
Air Date: 10/27/1966
Stardate: 2713.5


The U.S.S. Enterprise answers an old distress signal to find an unnamed planet that is almost an exact duplicate of Earth in the 1960s. A landing party beams down and discovers that 300 years before, the natives of the planet conducted experiments to prolong life, but had instead created a deadly virus. The virus killed all adults by rapid aging and madness. In children, the virus slowed the natural aging process greatly, leaving them in a state of prepubescence for centuries.

There are no adults on the planet, only children, and they survive the best they can without adults to aid them. The landing party contracts the virus, except for Spock, who becomes a carrier of the disease. Until a cure for the disease can be found and created, the landing party is confined to the planet. To return to the U.S.S. Enterprise would mean a rapid spread of the disease. The landing party attempts to make friends with the children, but they vividly remember the horrible deaths of their parents and refuse to have anything to do with them. One of the older children, Miri, falls in love with Kirk and tries to help him with the other children until she begins to see Yeoman Rand as a rival for the captain's affections. Stung, Miri helps Jahn, one of the boys, to lead the children in a campaign to harass the U.S.S. Enterprise crew members. When Kirk tries to reason with the children, he is badly beaten.

One of the older children begins to exhibit symptoms of the disease and Kirk convinces them that they all will get the virus and die horribly, when they finally reach puberty. Using himself as a guinea pig, McCoy creates an antidote from old research notes found in the planet's lab, and finds the cure. The doctor says that the Federation will probably send supervisory personnel to colonize the planet and take care of the children.

[frithguild]

marked

[Campion]

Ping and BTTT.