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Deep probing questions, Ciel....I ask these also many a time....i have no
quick-fix answers, but some thoughts.....I think we need to work with an understanding that our society is absolutely consumerist. And hence these consumerist 'values' grow on us.
We therefore need to work slowly but surely at dissecting our lives and the world around us, and as we relate together in this endeavour, perhaps the answers will come. Slowly and surely. I hope.....
posted by
Straightforward
on December 11, 2012 at 6:16 PM
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Good post. Lots of important questions here that it just might help to know the proper answers, or maybe not.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 8, 2012 at 9:21 PM
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Children are taught to always one up their neighbors...to have the best...go ahead and charge it...forget about making the money first and then buying it with cash...i see so many adolescents walking around with computers, ipads, ipods, cell phones etc...everything now...don't wait...don't earn it...
posted by
Annicita
on December 7, 2012 at 5:31 PM
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I also agree that it's probably a combination of both laziness and entitlement. However, these "young adults" today probably don't have very good role models for such behavior anymore either. The phrase "Do as I say and not as I do" seems to no longer have any credibility when it comes to most of today's parents, who seem to be too busy to actually "teach" their children anything. I cannot speak as a parent ( since my wife and I have no children ) but I can speak as a casual observer of the world around me, and today, "Spare the rod, spoil the child" seems a more appropriate phrase to explain these kid's behavior. Some of these young adults will just have to learn the hard way, especially when it comes to booze! A nasty hangover can go a long way in the first lesson of Drinking 101 . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 7, 2012 at 4:59 AM
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Ciel
Oh boy! Of course I agree with you that we find a wide range of issues and problems associated with drinking - but there are those for whom the enjoyment of an excellent wine or a smokey single malt scotch belong to the pleasures in life to be savoured, not abused. I sympathize with the alcoholic, but won't let the relative pervasiveness of alcoholism (nor the existence of a shallow binge culture) spoil my own enjoyment...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 6, 2012 at 6:05 PM
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I got this feeling that the smart ones will get back to work to pay big
time and get themselves grown up and out of trouble.
Remember the hippie culture? Drop out and dope up? The smart ones from there went back to work too.
posted by
Kabu
on December 6, 2012 at 2:25 PM
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