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There is low class,
uncaring, anti-social behavior everywhere. People are not concerned with
tomorrow or what they may genuinely achieve in life, or their obligations to
the culture that has provided them with everything they are and may ever
possess. People's rudeness and arrogance goes beyond the irrational. It is
obvious that they have been given too much too easily. It is obvious that
they do not truly appreciate the value of anything from their houses, cars,
friends, and including their lives. They cherish nothing. |
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The people I am
speaking of live in comfortable and secure surroundings. Yet they are
homogeneous in their ill-tempered manners and mannerisms. |
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These include the
hard-edged 30-something moms stridently striding along sidewalks with their
young daughters with
their sweaters tied around their waists. There are the moms pushing shopping
carts aggressively shoving quickly through aisles while their kids straggle behind
appearing dismayed, forlorn and forgotten. |
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We have all seen the dads -- today's frail version of the
father -- whom our culture has stripped of all masculinity. Today's dads may
only use their ability to not shave on the weekends to display a sham
semblance of their fathers' manliness. (This has been going on so long now
that I must recall grandfathers rather than fathers.) Today's dads schlep
caringly while holding the hands of their children in a gentle manner
guiding them into the store or ice cream shop to violate their moms'
lecturing mandate "No ice cream. Ice cream is bad." The caring
exhibited by today's dads is rarely displayed by today's moms. |
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Then there are the
obsessive ones -- those who have discovered exercise. They are not naturally
athletic, but have been indoctrinated into workout mode. Their workouts
provide the dosing of adrenaline and doping chemicals that entice them into
believing that they actually are athletes, as tough as Chuck Norris, and
capable of defeating all. But consciously they know they are not. This
internal conflict keeps them on the edge. They instinctively rush through
red lights, stop signs, grocery stores -- all trivial tasks -- at high
speed. They are so confused. They want to give the appearance of being in
charge and executing all tasks in multitasking mode. |
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The remnants of the types of people --
whomever you know those to be -- who built Western Civilization, are frayed,
peeling and weak. They are terrified and cannot assert themselves for fear
of being subpoenaed, losing their jobs, or feeling guilty for having been
not fair. But they subliminally know that they are violating their natural
responsibilities by abdicating their potential abilities. Therefore they
feel guilty for having failed in life. And for accepting this subjugation,
they are failing in life! |
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It is not simply academic to ask, "How
long may our failing culture of arrogant, uneducated, rude, classless,
undeserving takers continue?" And further, "How much longer might the
shrinking breed of builders carry this two-generations-plus, massive clump
of takers?" |
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Sincerely, |
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Peter T. Hermit |
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