““We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” Such is the paideia, the method of education and cultural transmission, that obtains today in the West, chiefly in the debased Humanities.”
It started here in 1968 and it hasn’t stopped ever since then. Fortunately, we still have a good number of people in this country (mostly in middle America) who believe in honor, duty, country. But their ranks are shrinking and you certainly would never, ever, hear those words uttered on almost all of the college campuses today. And that’s where the real trouble is, in our educational system. From grade school to college, we are raising not only a generation of plugged-in morons, but of lazy, selfish, isolationists. The “ME” generation has been given I-pods and and I-pads, so now they can still be selfish but just a whole lot faster than before. On college campuses today military service is literally laughed at, military recruiters are prevented from even setting foot on many campuses, and the very idea of upholding the the basic documents that made our country great, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, are not only ignored, but also mocked as well.
We owe so much to our men and women in the military today. They have decided to stand up for this country when way too many others will not. But the real challenge is in Washington. We are not raising a generation of people that will bring the values maintained by our military to Washington. Oh no, we are creating a greedy generation of selfish whores who go to Washington poor and somehow, magically, retire very, very, rich. Just have a chat with Nancy Pelosi or Charlie Rangel about that. No, if kids today see that the politicians in Washington are no better than thieves, and then get away with their horribly un-ethical and, in some cases illegal, activities, how can we expect them to come to Washington and change things? Nope, we just keep creating yet another generation of thieves, people who are willing to enrich themselves at the expense of the general public. It makes me sick to think about it.
So long as kids today, as well as our politicians, still behave no better than the idiots that protested in 1968, there is no hope for us. We will just get lazier and dumber, and we will simply want more of everything. More social-welfare benefits, more money, more “stuff.” And with that kind of mind set, we will end up like the Romen Empire, corrupt, broken, and, in the end, forgotten.
