Those are not values on which to build a meaningful life, much less a functioning society and government championing genuine liberty and freedom. It is the soil in which tyranny flourishes and genuine personal liberty and freedom dies as the lusts of the eye, the lusts of the flesh, and the pride of life take over and rule.
Socrates
That punk kid Plato and his Playstation and his dang Grand Theft Auto...nothing good will come of it, mark my words. And don't ever start me on that Alexander kid. He talks like he's going to conquer the world.
We see the inability to communicate quite frequently in new hires. Put a guy on an ambulance who cannot communicate quickly and efficiently and you end up with dead people.
Seeing as how I have reached the “Codger AND Curmudgeon, AND Sarcastic AND Sardonic” level, have to pass along the following..
“old” guy was looking at his cell phone, trying to answer it when some young kid came buy and said “Need some help POPS?” and ended up saying such things as “You people are something and always running us young guys down but you can’t work a VCR, have trouble with your TV remote, can’t program your phone and definitely know nothing about a computer”.
The ‘old guy’ looked him up and down and replied
“Your are right son. WE grew up without cell phones, TV’s, VCR’s and computers, were neanderthals and went off to war when and where it was called, for the most part all served honorably, some made it a career, others got out, looked around, got off our asses and INVENTED ALL THAT STUFF you are talking about.”
“Now Sonny, just what have you accomplished recently”?