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School integration overlaps the same period. There are all sorts of social implications.
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
The dude who shot the kids in CT was a scitzo.
The dude that shots rat Congresswoman Giffords was a lunatic as well.
These dangerously mentally ill people who are being allowed to walk around free seem to the “the problem”.
Here's a theory my wife threw out there a few years ago. Today's kids are never allowed to fail. Everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy. So,as has happened in the recent past, a kid gets jilted by his first girlfriend. Well, he's never failed before, he doesn't know how to handle it, grabs a gun and goes nuts.
Of course this isn't always the case but it's happened enough. The point is, how can today's kids learn to overcome adversity and become better people if they're never allowed to fail?
It is the mothers & motherly love that civilize the children the most, & the fathers to enforce that love & civilization. Now, the mother works all day & there is no father. Little time is left in the day to spend with the kids. Civilizing the kids is left to paid strangers who have little stake in civilizing your kids. They are there primarily for the money & little else. There is no love from strangers to re-enforce the lessons learned.
It is my belief that if you haven't civilized your kids by age 6-7, then you have failed. At 6, the "system" takes over with it amoral attitudes that kill any sense of right & wrong. Add to that the growing influence of other kids who are just a morally ignorant.
Yet now, many new parents turn their kids over to the "system" right after birth. My own niece put her new born twins in day care so she could begin teaching in elementary school. Teaching other kids is more immediately important that spending precious time with your OWN twins?
My mother, now 95, said that children who rode their horses a long way into school sometimes brought their rifles and hunted on the way home. But I’m thinking these children were “expected” to behave as adults. Today’s society keeps children as children until 26. (That’s how long you have to keep them on your insurance. I have a friend whose adult “child” sued him for insurance coverage and won.) The ability to carry a gun goes with a self-responsible adult word view. Even adults today don’t have a self-responsible worldview. But taking away guns isn’t going to help.
When I was in high school, many times I had a shotgun in the trunk of the car, or in the gun rack of my truck. Used to go hunting before class during dove and quail season in Az.
In college the shotgun was in my dorm room at all times. Used to to rabbit and bird hunt in northern Arizona.
It was just accepted and we had no problems like we do today.
I kept my guns under control and they never killed anybody.
The problem is the deterioration of morals brought about by liberal social policies and soviet/socialist/nazi indoctrination taught in our schools and the liberal political agenda.
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The problem is people whose “value system” allows them to murder.
Thanks to years of liberal propaganda that there is no right and no wrong.
The question I ask is,” Why are we raising children that want to kill us+” When I was in High School, I used to bring my deer rifle to school to show my friends. I could keep it in my locker.
I can confirm that - my uncle was in such a club at school. He, however, didn't take the subway - he walked to school, carrying his gun the entire way. Somehow, neither he nor any of his fellow club-members shot anyone, even by accident.
We are living in a thoroughly pussified society. God help us.
In the fifties, my brother and I rode the school bus. On rifle club day he brought the rifle on the bus and I carried the box of fifty cartridges for the shoot ... which took place after school in the ravine behind the football field. But of course, I was living in East Tennessee then and liberalism was not yet the disease it has become.
H... NO! evil people are....mother of child beat to death with a fence post to see what it felt like by a sociopathic drugie.
Mayor Daley II canceled the programs just a few years back. Can't have reality intruding on our politics can we?
The left is the problem. Their fascism trumps any reality. Reality, however, is truth and it is reality that always defeats the left.
Great Article!