[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Kids today may know more about the perversions of this world than kids did back then, but they know today almost nothing about hard work, responsibility, and sacrifice.

Amen....I would love to hear from someone in the know as to why our youth suffer from so many anxiety disorders when life is so easy for them????

[Smokin' Joe]

Nature will throw some incredible challenges your way. Not all, but most are surmountable if you keep your head and use the resources available to you. Nature doesn't care what color you are, nor about pop culture, nor fashion, nor the latest dance. It challenges you to consume enough calories to get through your day, find/purify/drink enough water, keep your temperature regulated, shelter yourself.

Not so in a system of artificial constructs which can be engineered to be a consistent no-win environment with moving targets and artificial biases, and entire rules of engagement based on arbitrary and capricious factors.

I'll take the former environment over the latter any day. It is simpler, the challenges are clear-cut, and success becomes a matter of personal (or group) ability, not someone else' alleged judgement.

[Jay Redhawk]

I am not sure, but maybe we don’t keep today’s kids busy enough. They have too much time to think about the crap they hear on TV and in the classroom. The way the media and education focus so much on the dysfunctional aspects of humanity, kids may think they are expected to have some disease, syndrome, or disorder. Plus, being sick is a great way to gain attention and sympathy. If survival were more of a challenge, many of the kids would learn the value of work and excel. Maybe the Amish, and I mean the real Amish, have something figured out.