THE GRADUAL DISINTEGRATION OF VALUES

[=M97=]

Out with the wife and kids this weekend, I witnessed a couple disturbing incidences that really made me think about the relationship of parents and their children...


I. At the local shopping mall : A man, woman and two young boys - probably ages 8 and 6 - were walking towards the entrance of the plaza. Upon entering the younger boy ran from within his fathers reach to look in a store window that was decorated with Halloween decorations. A real eye catching display. A store worker was in the window finishing up his window dressings. The father, enraged at his son yelled out "Boy, get the fuck over here... that white man dont wanna look at you!"



II. A man and his son were riding down an escalator at a department store. The boy, again no more than 6 years old, was understandably curious... and well... somehow got his shoe stuck in the escalator when he reached the bottom. The whole aparatus shut down abruptly and people were nearly toppling over each other as a result. The boy panicked and forcefully ripped his shoe from the jaws of the cerrated steps. The father, seeing this, grabbed the boy by the arm and dragged him to the back of the store where you can not help but hear the abusive shouts..." You just fucked up a 60$ pair of shoes... do you realize that?!!"

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I could not help but feel sorry for, not only the children, but for the parents who just dont have a clue. Parents that are more inclined to express their hatred for another race or their love of money than for their concern for their childrens safety.

I think of their homelife. The values that are programmed into their minds. -A direct reflection of their parents values- and thats not saying much. People wonder why the world is steadily going down hill. Each generation is failing to adequately instill sufficient values into the next and as a result... the next will fail to do so as well.

[tRuUwIsDoM84]

Peace,
Well spoken, I believe the same thing, I understand children will learn how to curse soon or lata but damn implementing little traits of hatred and anger will do nothing for a child but become more violent and resistant to society, our world IS going downhill and it is real fucked up how people can't take the responsibility to teach children and themselves the right thing
PEace

[WombmanofGod]

And then we wonder why our children are so violent, violence is thrust upon them by their own PARENTS, the ones who are supposed to guide them to their best extent...down the right path

[JilaAlKhatir]

This is clearly a reflection of the capitalist ideals that dictate contemporary existence. The saddest thing is that these kinds of observations are all too common. But what do we expect? I don’t blame the parents; they are merely just a product of the system. And it is through them being exploited by this system that they exploit their children with monetary values.

From our very birth we are born into a classing that the system has deemed appropriate in order to sustain itself. It is not about the individual or the groups, but rather how can the human commodity contribute sufficiently to a system built on an oppressive monetary idealism.

It isn’t about moralism or some kind of universal altruism, rather it’s about generating more wealth despite the repercussions. The examples you noted are just an example of a much bigger scheme of dilemmas. Something inherent in a societal and ideological construct is often very difficult to escape and something as simple as “they are $60 shoes” illustrates both the many hidden and the many overt mechanisms of the system.

It would be very narrow to blame the parents alone when they are simply following the example exhibited to them by the ideological system that we’re all directly or indirectly submitting to.

The problem is the way in which the human being is constructed and it is that construction that impedes on the relationships they have with their children and others.

[Healthy Merking]

PEACE

it seems you hit the nail on the head when you said 'product of the system'

and you are right - parents cannot really be blamed

it is sort of a helpless feeling when you recognize that the most you can do for 'society' as a whole is observe it

"use my vacation days to watch babylon fall" - MF DOOM

trying to help those who are still 'products of the system' is kind of like dressing up in camouflage and trying to lead someone out of the forest
when they can't see the forest for the trees

pardon the extended metaphor

PEACE

[CIVILISON]

let the lighthouse brighten up the way for those who don't see...