Sort of obvious when getting an education, learning some skills, keeping your criminal record clean and adding value to society is considered 'acting white' and taboo in black communities.
But, but... Peter Pan really does exist!: http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/
Scary, in a kinky sort of way...
Whilst I agree with the general tone of the article, I dispute thoroughly its generalisation.
I don't lknow about Lisa, but I was there, born just after the war, and believe me I had a very strict, secular upbringing, and learned a whole heap of values, individual aresponsibility, and growing up among them. I am familiar with others of my generation who also did so.
You are missing the major point. Some of that generation bought into the crappy Humanism and post-modernism philosophy, took it to Universities, Labor Unions, the media and so forth, and made it grow like the noxious overpowering weed it is.
Those who could have poisoned and killed it before it got out of hand stayed silent or were silenced by the vituperative nature of our opponents. To this day there are writers who cant get published by mainstream publishing houses or newspapers because they write against the philosophy that is destroying our culture and our world.
So, dont try the "blame everybody" technique, look for the real cause. Otherwise you wont know what to use you anger to fight against.
Humans are odd creatures. When we look at animals we see adults trying to teach their young how to quickly become adults and survive in the world.
In todays' "extended childhood" society we see humans teaching their children how to avoid adulthood while hoping they'll survive college, multiple marriages, and multiple careers.
Too many people bought into and continue to believe the lies of socialism.
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Not bad ideas, except that Lisa ignorantly slams everyone over 40. She probably doesn't even see the irony that her screed essentially amounts to: Don't trust anyone over 40.
Parenting in this land just plain sucks. For the life of me I do not understand why people have kids and then basically ignore them. My parents had the parenting skills of mind numbed robots and most of the kids I went to school with (1200 in my high school) where in pretty much the same boat. That was forty years ago. It's gotten a lot worse.
If you study the lives of successful people ... read their biographies ... you will find one over arching fact. They had parents who were very involved in their lives. A good case study in point is the contrast between the families raised by Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt. There is a dual biography out there that deals with these families. All Teddy's kids grew up sound, well adjusted and successful. Franklin's kids were notoriously effed up. Drunks, druggies and psychological basket cases pretty much. Teddy was a great father. Franklin was mostly an absentee father.