I’m reading FreeRepublic ;-). And National Review Online, the Wall Street Journal, SteynOnline, Sultan Knish, City Journal, First Things, yadda yadda. That’s just on from the top line of my favorites bar!
Welcome to the “New Age” America.
When I was a kid in the 50’s we did not have TV in the earlier part of the decade (nor air conditioners) and all kids played together in the neighborhood and concentrated at the single movie theater in town...especially on Saturdays. EVERYONE KNEW EVERYONE ELSE...including the adults.
Then came the TV. and after that Air conditioning. That is when our society started to crumble. People started to stay in their homes and maintain a comfortable climate while watching TV. Kids quit playing outside because most of the other kids were inside watching TV. The other reason was that it was too hot to play outside any longer.
Then came the “age of games” and children simply started to sit in front of whatever the games were played upon and spent endless hours and days without any contact with the “outer world” of other kids who were sitting at home playing games on the TV.
Then came the computerized games and now they have developed into little robots (along with the grown children of earlier ages) completely changed into slaves of the cell phone and computer gaming systems.
We can thank the parents that suddenly realized that electronic devices were the surrogate parents their children needed, which freed up mom and dad from their responsibilities to raise their children to conform to the social norm.
From Day Care facilities as children, to public school systems, to colleges and on to politically correct organizations and causes, we have DESTROYED the individual and the new generation looks like a school of fish in an aquarium, following the leader and doing what the leader does...no matter what.
The American society has now become a society in which everyone is expected to be “his brother’s keeper” and to “hold harmless” any (and all) actions of our younger society simply because they have become isolated from reality and live in a world of make believe and in total ignorance of what responsibility for one’s actions means.
Anything that happens to them is caused by someone (or something else) and not by their own hand. They live in a dream world that the liberals have painted for them.
Unless this scenario changes, we are doomed as a society. We have already become a society in which one neighbor does not know their next door neighbor. Children are raised in day care centers and public indoctrination centers we call schools. After that, the lucky ones get to spend 2-4 years in really “high pressure” indoctrination centers called college. We see the result of this today...the collapse of individual thinking, responsibility and social skills.
Thanks but no thanks
I'm not familiar with Sultan Knish. I remember when many in here were poo pooing NRO last year
Just finished:
The Order of the Albatross by J. Clark Halvin (my wifes cousin)
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank (read originally in high school. What a classic)
Now reading:
Split Second by Douglas Richards (just started, pretty good so far)