A 20 year-old girl comes into the living room and insists that, on top of getting her college paid for, her room and board paid for, and a car paid for, that her parents must do the same for her very capable, very lazy brother, who also is going to college on his parent's dime, is working a few hours a week, and has more than enough money in the bank to get himself a decent used car. Nothing is done. The child stomps out, slamming the door behind her.
Why does this scenario even exist? Why can it even be described to you, my Brothers in arms?
It can be described because it exists. It exists because American parents, weakened by decades of decadence, have softened into weakness and lost the will to provide their children the moral strength and discipline that will most assuredly be required in the world that is taking shape even now. Americans make no progress because they lack moral discipline. And so by omission they transmit this hateful weakness to their children.
When I was a child, the word, "No" was a common syllable. I rarely got what I wanted, but I always got what I needed from two parents who definitely loved me. They loved me enough to ensure that they were there for me. They loved me enough to ensure that I understood a few things about the world, such as my very small, almost insignificant place in it. Part of this meant teaching me right from wrong and enforcing this learning with punishments. Those punishments hurt. I got over them hurting. What I never got over was the realization that people are not allowed to be entitled, self-centered violators of whatever standard of conduct they find inconvenient. We are to obey the law and the rules. Our liking the law and the rules is completely irrelevant.
We are very, very small in relation to the world. Even Donald Trump is very small. Even his fortune is a droplet in an ocean of titanic becoming; of changes that never stop for one instant and we are swept away at all times in that tide. What remains is the Supreme Being and His Will, which is express in the clear, unmistakable terms of Law.
Americans, your children do not matter in relation to the cosmos, and you are doing them a terrible disservice in conditioning them to believe that they are huge, important, bright little centers of the cosmos. All the while you are allowing the creation of a a world in which such people cannot hope to cope nor survive. You cripple your children by making them little objects of worship who must be allowed to say, do, or have anything they want. You are turning your children into the self-centered, narcissistic jackasses you have always been, and the prisons are full of the final proofs of my statement.
You will change or you will share in the guilt for all the terrible things your misguided progeny are going to do. If they do not commit outright crimes, then think on this much: do you honestly expect that narcissistic, self-centered, entitled, snotty 21 year-old to look after you when you are old, decrepit, and can no longer so much as wipe your own ass? You cannot possibly be that stupid. You have created a world you and your children cannot possibly thrive or even live in.
Coddling is abuse.
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