Sunday, July 24, 2011

Our Falling Society

In the dead of night, between Friday evening and Saturday morning (July 22 and July 23), some creep smashed out the entire rear window of my vehicle while it was parked on the street in front of my home. I was sleeping so hard, I didn't hear anything. I wasn't even aware of the damage until my next-door neighbor alerted me to it that Saturday morning. I was always aware that American society has been slowly decaying right before our very eyes. Now I have become one of the victims of that societal decay. People try to reason with me and tell me that I should be thankful the damage wasn’t any worse, and that the thug or thugs didn't actually try to attack me in my home while I was asleep. But the fact that someone could actually stoop so low as to attack someone else's property means that they have little to no respect for themselves and for their fellow citizen. Worse, several other vehicles in my neighborhood were attacked in the same way, which means that what was once a quiet, peaceful neighborhood is now being overrun by yet another crime wave. It's bad enough that we have an increasing number of reckless new commuters speeding down our streets, ignoring almost every Stop-sign while mindlessly chattering on their handheld cellular phones (which is now illegal in the State of California), and threatening our children. It's bad enough that we have an increasing number of derelicts and prostitutes wandering through our streets. (I even had to throw one derelict off of my front porch when I discovered him trying to camp out there for the night, and he had the nerve to cuss me out when I told him he had to leave: my home is NOT public property!) It's bad enough that an increasing number of new "neighbors" insist on disrespecting everyone else in the neighborhood by having loud house parties at 1:00AM on a weekday, inviting all of their non-carpooling friends to take up every inch of street parking AND totally block your driveway (which is also illegal in the state of California) so that you can't even get your vehicle out of the driveway, and then letting their dogs and their kids tear up YOUR front lawn in spite of the fence you've placed around it. (Yep, ALL of this has happened to me recently.) Now we have an increasing number of miscreants who have nothing better to do than attack your property. But think, this is not that far removed from having an increasing number of miscreants who have nothing better to do than attack YOU.

You know what really makes all of this so ridiculous? ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. How, you ask? BY ACTUALLY TAKING THE TIME TO CORRECTLY RAISE YOUR CHILDREN BACK IN 1991, 1981, OR EVEN 1971, SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T GROW UP TO BE THUGS, FELONS, CON-ARTISTS, AND DISRESPECTFULLY SELFISH ADULT BRATS IN 2011. Whenever you allow a corrupt society to eviscerate your children's souls of all virtue, meaning, culture, learning, wisdom, discipline, tradition, and history, you can only expect anarchy to follow, even if it comes many decades later. There are incredibly tall trees that have been growing for hundreds, even thousands of years, but they all started out as a tiny seed. As a bad seed, poor parenting and a lackluster education may take decades to manifest themselves, but rest assured, they will bring forth their bitter fruits, resulting in the destruction of everything we Americans hold dear.