Awaken Every Man to Duty
We need reluctant leaders, true men of character. Not self-aggrandizing character actors.
Children are selfish. The younger they are the more that is true. As their minds and hearts develop, they become more sophisticated. They learn, among other things, empathy and self-awareness. These tools help them to be good members of a productive and caring society.
With the new digital pacifiers that children now use long into their adulthood. The need to be able to function in a society diminishes. Individualism begins to prevail and the next thing you know society is full of selfish people. Unconcerned with anyone else. It is why we see such violent crime on helpless victims. It is why we see institutions falling apart and morals decaying and disappearing? Replaced with a certain selfishness once only found in the youngest children. Now we see it in the teens, twenty’s and far beyond.
It is the reason a woman can walk around a grocery store openly carrying a ten inch kitchen knife for ten minutes before stabbing a 3-year-old boy to death in front of his mother. Prior to the attack people just ignored the woman with the knife in her hand. No one said a word. Rationalizing their cowardice they think to themselves, “She is not bothering me, so I do not care. If I say something I could single myself out to her. Would anyone help me then?” A legitimate question. 30 years ago the answer was yes, people would have stepped in and stopped it.
Instead, today we have a woman charged with murder smiling about it for the cameras in court. Demented in part by the failures in our own society. Lack of parenting. Digital pacifiers. A selfish mentality. Me, me, me. This is all a video game.
My God, when did we stop caring for each other as Americans? When did it change from