Hating the Societal Mainstream
Who but those who step outside can find the nature of our insanities? We're all stupid and really messed up. Obvious? Definitely. Apparent? Not enough.
Alright, let's brief this out. Society today is on its own course to self destruction. Aside from the religious outcries of future Armaggeddon (which I do believe), the society itself is collapsing - just the way every society in the past has collapsed upon itself. What is the single, most solitary factor that contributes to this?
Forgetting.
Regardless of how something is forgotten, whether someone does not teach their child the lessons of yesterday or tries and fails, the new generation fails to learn from the old: they move on into newer "enlightenment" and screw everything up.
Why wouldn't parents wish to teach their children the lessons they learned? There are a few reasons.
1. Life lessons are not fully understood until they are experienced.
- This is not necessarily the best reason not to teach a child a lesson. One should teach, but still understand that it may not sink in until they DO experience it. Better to try though, than not at all.
2. The horrors the parents faced when they were younger, they do not want the younger ones to face.
- Horrors and the lessons learned from them are two separate things. Explain what you can without revisiting the horror, but if they understand the lesson, they might at least recognize the dangers of the horror when it approaches. Do not detail a rape when you can tell your daughter to always travel with a friend at night.
3. They do not think the children will understand.
- Don't expect them to be fully comprehensive, but give them the benefit of the doubt.
4. They think that the way of the younger generation is better.
- Overall, you'd be pretty stupid to believe that. We're not talking the "better" way of doing things - getting rid of slavery and separate but equal mentalities was right, not a younger thing to do. My point in that is that the youth are not our future without the solid truths from the past. A child with no-one to teach it the way will die - so will generations. If parents do not stand up and teach their children from right and wrong, then they are letting their children die.
5. They are afraid of their children.
- If you are afraid of your child, you should be slapped.
- Now, to clarify this answer, let's give exceptions. Mentally unstable children due to extenuating circumstances NOT under the parent's control do not count.
- Let's clarify it further: a poor family in a ghetto neighborhood do NOT live in extenuating circumstances to cause mental instability for a child. If they are willing to fight, their children will grow up with strong minds and a heart for values, necessary values to maintain a society.
:: A side note on this - if a parent has mistreated a child to a point where the child is mentally unstable and threatens the parent, then the parent deserves whatever the child puts upon them. It doesn't make it right, it is, however, the nature of the beast.
We must be willing to give it all to ensure our children understand not only the nature, but also the danger of the world. Embracing the world doesn't help us. Most people would agree that if they set a goal, they will never reach it, but they often come close. So, if they set higher goals, they may not reach them, but they will go higher. So we as humans, society, people - whatever, must embrace something higher than ourselves to become better in who we are and what we do.
Be it faith, a way of life, the principle is the same. I, however, will tell you straight that God created this world and that his is the only way to go. It may not be easy or always fun, but right and wrong are not ours to decide.
Alright, let's brief this out. Society today is on its own course to self destruction. Aside from the religious outcries of future Armaggeddon (which I do believe), the society itself is collapsing - just the way every society in the past has collapsed upon itself. What is the single, most solitary factor that contributes to this?
Forgetting.
Regardless of how something is forgotten, whether someone does not teach their child the lessons of yesterday or tries and fails, the new generation fails to learn from the old: they move on into newer "enlightenment" and screw everything up.
Why wouldn't parents wish to teach their children the lessons they learned? There are a few reasons.
1. Life lessons are not fully understood until they are experienced.
- This is not necessarily the best reason not to teach a child a lesson. One should teach, but still understand that it may not sink in until they DO experience it. Better to try though, than not at all.
2. The horrors the parents faced when they were younger, they do not want the younger ones to face.
- Horrors and the lessons learned from them are two separate things. Explain what you can without revisiting the horror, but if they understand the lesson, they might at least recognize the dangers of the horror when it approaches. Do not detail a rape when you can tell your daughter to always travel with a friend at night.
3. They do not think the children will understand.
- Don't expect them to be fully comprehensive, but give them the benefit of the doubt.
4. They think that the way of the younger generation is better.
- Overall, you'd be pretty stupid to believe that. We're not talking the "better" way of doing things - getting rid of slavery and separate but equal mentalities was right, not a younger thing to do. My point in that is that the youth are not our future without the solid truths from the past. A child with no-one to teach it the way will die - so will generations. If parents do not stand up and teach their children from right and wrong, then they are letting their children die.
5. They are afraid of their children.
- If you are afraid of your child, you should be slapped.
- Now, to clarify this answer, let's give exceptions. Mentally unstable children due to extenuating circumstances NOT under the parent's control do not count.
- Let's clarify it further: a poor family in a ghetto neighborhood do NOT live in extenuating circumstances to cause mental instability for a child. If they are willing to fight, their children will grow up with strong minds and a heart for values, necessary values to maintain a society.
:: A side note on this - if a parent has mistreated a child to a point where the child is mentally unstable and threatens the parent, then the parent deserves whatever the child puts upon them. It doesn't make it right, it is, however, the nature of the beast.
We must be willing to give it all to ensure our children understand not only the nature, but also the danger of the world. Embracing the world doesn't help us. Most people would agree that if they set a goal, they will never reach it, but they often come close. So, if they set higher goals, they may not reach them, but they will go higher. So we as humans, society, people - whatever, must embrace something higher than ourselves to become better in who we are and what we do.
Be it faith, a way of life, the principle is the same. I, however, will tell you straight that God created this world and that his is the only way to go. It may not be easy or always fun, but right and wrong are not ours to decide.
posted by Johnathan Cross at 8:08 PM
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