"... I believe our pendulum is still swinging away from the repressive Victorian age toward the
opposite extreme—sex running wild, unbridalled—at all ages—through our streets,
today. When the subject is a mature (responsible) sense of sex,
our society’s not yet achieved a healthy balance between lust and self control. And sex is just one symptom of today's laxity in terms of self discipline, because everywhere we look, everything we value is
coming undone. *When everything we value comes undone, denial is dismissing the fact that our values and priorities no longer match.
*When we talk about responsible values, generosity of spirit and compassion but prioritize greed and self fulfillment while big budiness steps all over 'the little guy', that points toward a serious detachment from reality. In order to detach from reality, we must lie to ourselves.
For many reasons we’re at a point on the time line where people of both sexes feel driven to work, work, work—without paying enough mind to considering what has actually caused us to lose all sense of balance in terms of controlling our emotions at home, as well as our finances. Case in point ... Highlighting a society out of control? We're losing our homes and gunning down innocent children. Rather than injecting healthy slices of common sense into the hectic pace of our exhausted lives, we’ve been blowing up a fast food, pill-pushing, over-extended, over-weight, X-rated, plastic bubble for so many decades that smart people are accustomed to arriving home too late and exhausted to think clearly about helping with homework, much less participating in family fun with kids, who are over-programmed as well. For Pete's sake, Mom, here we are, living in a mild climate where people, who ignore the state of our natural environment, run indoors in gyms that cost a fortune. Tell me how that makes sense?
*When we talk about responsible values, generosity of spirit and compassion but prioritize greed and self fulfillment while big budiness steps all over 'the little guy', that points toward a serious detachment from reality. In order to detach from reality, we must lie to ourselves.
For many reasons we’re at a point on the time line where people of both sexes feel driven to work, work, work—without paying enough mind to considering what has actually caused us to lose all sense of balance in terms of controlling our emotions at home, as well as our finances. Case in point ... Highlighting a society out of control? We're losing our homes and gunning down innocent children. Rather than injecting healthy slices of common sense into the hectic pace of our exhausted lives, we’ve been blowing up a fast food, pill-pushing, over-extended, over-weight, X-rated, plastic bubble for so many decades that smart people are accustomed to arriving home too late and exhausted to think clearly about helping with homework, much less participating in family fun with kids, who are over-programmed as well. For Pete's sake, Mom, here we are, living in a mild climate where people, who ignore the state of our natural environment, run indoors in gyms that cost a fortune. Tell me how that makes sense?
Too
few of us are aware of the fact
that values we profess to believe in have not matched our priorities for quite some time. All of the huffing and puffing we do does nothing but blow up a lot of hot air. *Our nation has been tottering at the
top of a pyramid scheme, which has been undermining our solid foundation for
so long that we expect our hurried children to dance toward high achieving
adulthood as fast as they can in hopes that they, who learn by mimicking us, will come up with ideas that
will save middle class values, which having hollowed out, from total collapse, so our nation won't end up in the poorhouse, enmass.
At this pace I fear the best
of the younger generation will wear out younger and break down more often than those
of us raised during the stable decade of the fifties. As to tormented kids, whose names are defiled on the evening news, while we continue to
sit on our couches, clucking our tongues to hear that 'someone else's' child has been dashing
through school halls, blasting loaded guns, left and right.
How can it be that so many of us are unaware of the fact that the reactions of our kids is symptomatic to much that’s gone wrong with adults?”
How can it be that so many of us are unaware of the fact that the reactions of our kids is symptomatic to much that’s gone wrong with adults?”
“Annie, what does all of that have to do with The
Pill?”
“For the sake of simplicity, let's say that hindsight suggests that “The Pill” and ‘The Sexual
Revolution’ set off a chain reaction, catalyzing so many socially accepted
divorces that home life resembles a revolving door. This is your family, today. Meet your new family, tomorrow. Whoops! Blink once and that family is whisked away and replaced by another ... Circle round, alamand left, switch partners and dosey doe. Though society is deeply concerned, people get used to anything. And I believe we've grown too complacent, concerning
our present harvest of painfully bruised fruit. I mean, really! If the apple doth not fall far from the tree, when are we going to face THE TRUTH about one generation leading the next ever more deeply into denial's dark maze?
More than half of us divorce. What single mother, who feels chained to punching a corporate
time clock from 9-5, feels liberated, Mom? At best, most working moms feel guilty about how exhausted they are at home after working so hard to climb the corporate ladder. How many can afford nannies? What kid wants their nannie at their recital? Where is it written that nannies, rather than parents, are best suited to raise kids with well rounded family values?
As women, climbing the ladder, compete for the same positions as men, division of labor—at work and at home—has become as mired within the exhausted blur of a power struggle as every other aspect of family life. If yesterday's slave masters, were named Simon Legree then today’s taskmaster, who no longer discriminates by color, goes by the name of—Big Business.
I'd once feared Big Government turning into Big Brother. But I was wrong. While I kept my eye on Big Government, Big Business slipped in and began to call the shots, while the little guy kept running around, like Chicken Little, lamenting our lot.
Life was messy before I was born. Life is bound to be messy after I'm gone. While I'm here, I've decided that lamenting is not enough, so I set my focus on spending my time figuring out what needs to be done to clean the cobwebs out of my mind. All you need do is watch me to see that my thoughts are always undergoing some phase of growth. But instead of growing, wildly, like a weed. I grow more thoughtfully aware of where my belief system is in need of adjustment, every day.
As women, climbing the ladder, compete for the same positions as men, division of labor—at work and at home—has become as mired within the exhausted blur of a power struggle as every other aspect of family life. If yesterday's slave masters, were named Simon Legree then today’s taskmaster, who no longer discriminates by color, goes by the name of—Big Business.
I'd once feared Big Government turning into Big Brother. But I was wrong. While I kept my eye on Big Government, Big Business slipped in and began to call the shots, while the little guy kept running around, like Chicken Little, lamenting our lot.
Life was messy before I was born. Life is bound to be messy after I'm gone. While I'm here, I've decided that lamenting is not enough, so I set my focus on spending my time figuring out what needs to be done to clean the cobwebs out of my mind. All you need do is watch me to see that my thoughts are always undergoing some phase of growth. But instead of growing, wildly, like a weed. I grow more thoughtfully aware of where my belief system is in need of adjustment, every day.
"So, what are you writing about, Annie—effective communications or rescuing present day society before family values crash and implode?"
"They're one and the same, Mom. And here's why that's true: If more of us do not begin to communicate honestly with ourselves about ourselves, we'll not come to see how negative mindsets, insecure attitudes, and self absorbed leadership exacerbate problems at home as well as around the world.
Once we set a high value on mindful self awareness, we can consciously work together toward becoming pillars of strength, securing a balanced sense of grounded family values in home after home.
*If we don't prioritize family values and model mindful self awareness for our kids then who will?
If it's true that eventually every world power has faced its decline, must we follow suit? By working, mindfully, to prioritize the values upon which our nation had originally grown strong, I feel compelled to ask others to join hands, while we declare, with conviction:
NO! NO! NOT AGAIN!
We shall not cave or crash as those who came before us!
We shall overcome and re-strengthen
I have a dream.
How about you?
I want to hold your hand
While we figure out
How to expand our sights
Meet our needs
And retrieve values
Which have been in the process of barreling downhill
Since the sixties!
We shall not cave or crash as those who came before us!
We shall overcome and re-strengthen
I have a dream.
How about you?
I want to hold your hand
While we figure out
How to expand our sights
Meet our needs
And retrieve values
Which have been in the process of barreling downhill
Since the sixties!
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