What Is Wrong With People Today

The world is a beautiful place. It is our culture that has gotten ugly. People once were able to give their fellow man the benefit of the doubt. Neighbors help each other. We looked at a person and measured their potential for good. It was a simple Christian ethic: God wants us to help our fellow man and we should all strive to be the best person we can possibly be. As a society we have abandoned the way. We no longer measure a person on their potential for goodness but for their potential for evil. Our neighbors are no longer a source of help and support but now are viewed under a cloud of mistrust and suspicion. We automagically assume the worse in everybody. When I was a boy of 6 or 7 (same of my eldest child) I had the freedom to get on my bike and explore my world. My parents would drop me and friends off at the movies or the arcade with some money in our pockets and the admonition to "be out front at 6 pm for pick up". Today, we have changed the world. I wouldn't dare let my 7 year old son out of my yard little lest out of the neighborhood without myself or my Bride riding herd on him every moment. I even worry about letting my children play together in the back yard without supervision. Our society is crushing itself under the weight of its own loss of values. I am sure our founding fathers are rolling over in there graves at the thought of it. The human animal must be governed by its own internal moral structure. As a societal norm we have systematically dismantled that internal moral structure of values that our parents, parents, parents instilled in them. We have abandoned the righteous path for a feel good set of values established by government. Instead of walking the more difficult path of personal values and self-government we would rather have big brother legislate our values for us. Government can not govern morality. It is a complete incompatibility. We cannot look to a federal government to for moral direction. We must follow our own moral compass, calibrated by the values established in us by or parents, and magnetic north on that compass does not point to Washington City, it points in the direction that your faith in the almighty takes you.

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD