My most wise and respected Grandmother [mother of 12 outstanding citizens who were accomplished in their chosen fields] said it best, in my opinion at least.
"The hand the rocks the cradle rules the world" In her day.. and mine.. all hands rocked the cradle.. men and women worked together to build families, not careers. The focus was on children, their tenure as young emerging adults, and the building of necessary skills to contribute to a civil and productive society.. All adults were given and took seriously the responsibility to give guidance and correction where necessary to young emerging adults and to teach responsibility of actions, good or bad.. to both reward good actions and to rebuke bad actions.. The past 30 yrs of our latest social engineering experiment has failed pretty miserably in preserving those standards of civilization which overall worked to great success... such as being responsible for your own actions to others.. courtesy ... work ethic [and the boss ethic which required loyalty to your workers], and many others.. I mourn this loss of civilization and rise in concern for the heirs to our mistakes.. When civilization is lost, it must be relearned, always at cost of blood and treasure.. Your personal mileage may vary, I'm commenting on the wide brush picture of society worldwide, as I see it. Grant... On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Rick wrote: > > Many youths and young adults don't have a moral compass or a sense of > shame... and THAT is a problem for our future. > > > > Let's be realistic. > It ain't our future - it is their future. > Our future is gone - let it be. > I think we will be proud of what their future is, if *we* did things > responsibly in the first place. Their future is all our fault. > mao > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
