Posted on 01/25/2020 7:42:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this the figment of an overactive imagination? Well, it is in fact a peek at a neighborhood in New York City where the son of immigrant parents read The New York Times every morning in high school, before orchestra rehearsal. Me. The principal, strongly authoritarian and well loved, opened a weekly assembly of highly diverse youngsters by reading a psalm from the Bible. Tough-as-nails, yet tenderhearted teachers passed on a tradition of excellence in thought, expression, and civility while preparing us for a wide range of careers in a free and independent America.
This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school budget. In these “backward” times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages (including Latin). A Reporters’ Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives for a local hospital . . . The list of extracurricular engagements was long.
I think it’s revealing that dictionaries in these “retrograde” times did not prefix definitions of words referring to high moral standards, such as virtue, with the phrase “regarded as.” It did not have to be stated that opinion or “point of view” is not a valid basis for morality.
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In many ways the US is the frog in the pot of water on the stove
I remember that world and miss it. Young people today don’t believe America was like that ever. We had something wonderful and let it slip away. I want America to not only be great again, but to be good again!
Where have you gone, Norman Rockwell?
Lost is the sense of civic engagement and moral responsibility to the thing that makes life without brutality possible- Western civilization.
Gone forever.
I am vilified for saying this but I think the “Greatest Generation” which lived through the great depression and WW11 are mainly at fault for the problems we face today. They got so wrapped up in providing for their families and doing what was right that they allowed the camel to stick his nose in the tent and open the door. They cared more about family than politics which in the long run has not worked to the benefit of our country.
btt
You have a point ... however, I think it starts earlier than that, during the New Deal. Hubs’ grandpa was a thoughtful Christian. He said the church lost a great blessing by giving up ministry to the poor and letting the government take it over. I think the church lost relevance and leadership in society then, and we seeing that play out. YMMV.
Alll was good as long as I was home when the street lights came on.
OMG. . .this hate speech has triggered me! HELP ME. . .I’m being overwhelmed by this tsunami of white privilege. . .where did I leave my pearls?. . I must clutch them. . .I’m off to my safe space and will be in the fetal position cryin for my mammy until further notice!!!
It was highjacked by whores, fags, addicts and atheists. And the tip of the spear was hollyweird. That was our big mistake, viz. allowing our morals, values and ethics to be shaped by a bunch of demented perverts.
The America that was the envy of the world.
And no shaving.
Bttt
Yep. My wife and I often look back at all TV shows or listen to Oldies and remember good times especially in the 60s
Little did we know the seeds of cultural degradation and political decline were being planted behind our backs
The World War II generation and the World War I generation will be turning over in their graves if they could see what their children and grandchildren have done to this great country
You are right, it was. I use the term slip away because it could have been stopped if the good people had been awake enough to put up a real fight. It seems a lot were not paying attention and woke up one day wondering what happened.
Our Nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Feminism destroyed the two parent family more than anything
Obsession with racism is another culprit
Oddly I blame the ethno policies of the Third Reich and others earlier
They made it nigh impossible for white Christian culture in the West to fight against those who wish to diminish or destroy them....that’s a rich irony btw
You’re white and Christian and you fight back you’re a potential Nazi...face it....listen to kids talk today
Everything is about race or oppressed women
Feminism begat homosexuality getting loud
All this will be settled violently either from within or external and even if we prevail it’ll never be Leave To Beaver again except maybe in select homes
In before the virtue signalling “We are a nation of immigrants” open border cabal.
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