Why the Children?
“Everybody’s searching for a hero… People need someone to look up to…”
“A society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction”. ~ Dennis Prager
Young people are amazing. The respectable, honest, and kind ones and the bullying and blatantly disrespectful ones. Either way, I am amazed at our youth, here on this earth.
With each new era, it seems the people we will more likely have to depend on are the ones we most likely will fear. From the point of the bullies and the disrespectful ones, the elderly do not stand a chance of surviving.
Who do they think the elderly are? I sometimes ponder that question. What the youth may not know is the younger they are, the less their chance of surviving into old age.
“For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase — life, beauty, happiness, and strength.” ~Gautama Buddha
The fault of the youth to express callous attitudes cannot be placed upon them solely without calling out the ones who caused this behavior. Parenting, community, and society are the culprits here.
Only two decades ago there would be an occasional disruptive misbehaved youth. Today, full classrooms, entire workforces, and whole communities have young people without morals and virtues. Good manners and civil conduct are not expressed nor acknowledged.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”~ Frederick Douglass
Sending the child into the public school arena is the first step to losing them from positive training, love, and brotherhood. It’s where they first meet others who never knew higher standards of behavior.
Social media has become a wayward chaotic system that strips morals and righteousness from young minds. Stealing their morals. Robbing their civility. Killing their stellar thoughts. Their paradise is lost, leading to bondage.
Anyone can view social media and any media. It is the youth that is targeted. People with thousands of followers entertain by eating feces, licking bathtubs, and other abominable acts. It’s monetized, too! They get paid to act like barbaric heathens and their behavior is accepted and supported. But, the children are watching… Anyone can see it.
Killing people on camera (in real life) is considered entertainment! The children are watching and it doesn’t faze them. They’ve developed emotional numbness to human suffering, and death.
Who would have thought the world wide web would have caused society to revert to unruly, rebellious, insubordinate, naughty members, and devolve into the errant, defiant, and wild young people we encounter daily?
A self-improvement book will only sell for pennies while social media can entertain horrific mind-blowing deviant behavior and acquire thousands of dollars. This is true worldwide.
How are the children supposed to practice decent, honorable, respectable, and righteous behavior if they are showered with societal abominable exploits from infancy?
“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” ~bell hooks
Children are neglected in hot cars, abducted by strangers, raped by relatives, sold as sex slaves, used maliciously in movies, locked in cages by armed guards, starved to death, or killed in heinous ways. Just here in the US alone. But, why the children?
Why do we not protect the children, from themselves as well as others? They can not know better if all the adults around them are as crazy as gnats and doing every wicked thing under the sun. Why should the children then be expected to be perfect little pretenders, copycats, or avatars?
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ~James Baldwin
Multitudes of options are available to SAVE THE CHILDREN. Each one of us must do our part for each child. No longer can parents, teachers, and the community at large leave it up to the Tictocks, Instagrams, and online gaming to teach them what is true, moral, and just. Sane, balanced adults with standards of morality and virtue must teach them likewise.
Any adult person aiding and abetting the youth in their sinful and criminal activity for money, recognition, and cult following is an adversary to them.
“The children are our future” we should teach them in the way that they should go. Turning off the games, tv, and cell phones are excellent points to begin at. Turning a blind eye and a deaf ear is not going to help.
Children on other continents are suffering from malnutrition, abject poverty, lack of medical assistance and education, disabilities, clean drinking water, no protection from violence, and climate change. They need help, too. What about the children?
“To reach real peace in the world, we will have to begin with the children.”~ Mahatma Gandhi
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