Entitlement and realignment

My God. Day one and this already needs to be said.

What the hell is wrong with people these days, actively criticizing the military referring to them as murderers, baby killers, and rapists?

I really thought we would have raised our children better than this... and at first I mentally tried assign blame, cycling through everyone but where blame was truly due.

We as parents are stark raving mad lunatics of failure, impressing on our children a society full of princes and princesses... spoiled and entitled kids that hit their teen years as entitled brats with no more sense than when they were toddlers. How did it get this way?

Us. Parents. We one day decided it was the school's job to make sure that our children were morally and ethically autonymous, failing to raise them ourselves with values, morals , and chivalry. We forget that schools are bound by a national standard, and managed by a group of people who hold tenure. To clarify this concept of tenure - teachers who serve four consecutive years fall under a protected class wherein which they cannot be fired unless some sort of criminal activity has occurred - and those teachers that underperform are still allowed to teach classes. So what is the result?

The ultimate result is what we have today the "test score mania" where teachers focus on doing the minimum amount of work necessary to have "passing" grades within a classroom. This inevitably results in the child learning no more moral autonomy than a wild dog in a pack.

These children then go home to their antidepressant loaded parents who blankly stare at tv screen and fail to acknowledge or even understand their kid, let alone try to teach them their own trade. Its no wonder a large majority of kindergarteners can tell you more about the Real Housewives but yet can't tie their own fucking shoes... even if they have those awesome little velcro strap.

Then these kids that are supposed to be our blessing - our posterity - grow to be nothing more than internet trolls, commenting negatively on anything and everything that represents the basic moral standards of integrity, bravery, committment, and chivalry. Its like uncaging a pack of rabid howler monkeys in a pristine victorian mansion - eventually all of the fixtures are broken and the monkeys have managed to shit all over everything.

The kicker here is then we (referencing military and former military) get incensed and make all kinds of heinous comments about these idiots, thereby reducing ourselves to the same level. Old school chivalry would have said nothing of the sort... it simply would have hauled off and hit the offender in the mouth.

In reality maybe we should be looking at mentoring children from broken homes, fighting against teachers unions that support such a strong definition of tenure, and making sure that our own children know to open up a door for a lady or they're going to suffer the consequences. Make bad decisions have lasting consequences, don't back down from your punishments (agh nothing looks weaker than an ineffective flexible worthless parent), and recognize and reward your child for good choices and chivalrous actions.

I still remember the time my own father got down on his knee the first time he saw me fail to open the door for a woman... what he said scared me so shitless at 5 years old, I made sure I ran to open doors for women. I made sure I never deserved that assbeating he promised me.

We have the power to change things, if we actually try - and being an internet douche towards a troll isn't going to change it, but when we take that anger and turn it into something positive, maybe we can do something that benefits society. Maybe there is still time to instill some value before these slackjawed brainless morons take over. I mean really, it's only a matter of time.

We need to get the Cyruses and Beibers out of our household, and be parents again... and hell - maybe a little of the wonder years wouldn't hurt either...

-Doc Unhinged