"If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in kind of a permanent state of collective immaturity and it becomes quite easy for them to believe that someone else's success is the cause of their distress. "
Gee, I wonder how he would comment on the effects of 40+ years of welfare on the African American community?!?!?
"If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in kind of a permanent state of collective immaturity and it becomes quite easy for them to believe that someone else's success is the cause of their distress." Man, you both 'nailed' it!!! The gist of postmodern thinking and moral relativism.
'collective immaturity' = childish dependence
Continued 'tolerance' of certain immature behaviors leads to continuance of those behaviors into adulthood, and we get adolescent fantasies becoming 'adult' realities, Columbine, gangs, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, terrorist acts, etc.
As an aside, what about our 'debt' to the future. Don't we have a responsibility to let them know the 'truth' that God has shown to us?
XXX42 'IS' TREASON II, IMHO. Which of our current American communities are just 'terror' waiting to happen? Why? FEDucation