(SOS) State of Society

in #honor5 years ago (edited)

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I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and living there I had a really close-knit group of friends. We were inseparable. Ride or Die, nothing comes before the group, no sick days. That sort of thing.

Well, I left home for the first time when I was 17, for a few months, and when I returned I picked up right where we left off, no problem. It was as if I never left. As time went on and I began to leave town more for college, an internship, a summer abroad, I realized each time I returned it was harder and harder to fit in. My friends and I had grown apart. This is normal in life, but looking back on it now I realize that they hadn't grown at all. They were stuck.

Where am I going with all of this? If you take a look at the news feeds of most social media sites you will see grown women naming their vaginas after the last television show they watched, men posting memes about how cool it is to be a loser and skip working out to play video games, parents posting public pictures of their children's fecal matter in miniature toilets, overweight teenagers justifying obesity as natural and beautiful, and the list goes on and on.

In early childhood, around the time when we lose our milk teeth, we begin to form opinions on what the ideal human is. In essence, we have heroes. Supernatural or historical figures, we emulate these heroes and use them as a guidepost to strive to grow into strong healthy adults. But what happens when parents decide that their children no longer need heroes? That they are gender biased, irrational, not body positive, or even aggressive? What is really healthy?

This idea of a childhood hero is a pass time as old as modern humans, maybe even older. Before we had Superman, Barbie, Brett Favre or anything else we had ancestors. The stories of our ancestors were handed down generation after generation to inspire our children and remind the adults of who they were and who the could be.

We were reminded of the struggles and sacrifices made by our forebears that brought about our existence in this world. How could we complain about the minuscule and mundane details of life when we knew the true strength of who we are? We didn't need an all-powerful God protecting us or deciding our fate. Our fate was ours and our strength lived in us, placed there by the ”heroic” deeds of our ancestors.

Eternal life is not a gimmick sold by the death cults of Abrahamic religions, it is the reality that makes us human. Christianity urges us to forget our past, forget what they did to us, ignore our ancestors and live for the afterlife.

How wrong could they be? We live for today and by doing so we make a better tomorrow for our children. We live on forever through them and what we do today will decide what will become of our children.

Find some real heroes. Be a hero for your children! Strive to be better. Challenge and change yourself and never forget the struggles of your ancestors.

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Great post, thank you for the effort. I resteemed to help get it in front of a few more people. There are a lot out there that should read it.

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And it is a great subject and post.

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Thanks a lot! I think nowadays it’s easy to forget why we do these things in the first place. People just get so caught up in doing them they don’t stop to think about why.

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Howdy sir badger! yes the destruction of the nuclear family is what is killing society and the lack of parents and kids raised without role models, or heroes is a catastrophy!

I couldn't agree more @janton!

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How nicely you were able to convey such an important message.

I realize each parental generation feels the young have gone astray. Unfortnuately, this generation of parents have gone off the deep end. Nothing is sacred, traditional, generational or worthy of keeping any more..including values and privacy. Amazing what people share. Kind of disturbing actually

My ancestors worked. That is how they survived, that is what has been handed down and that is what we do. Working class, modest lives, family. Family should provide all the love, support and kindness you need. I am a huge believer in the core family.

So glad you feel strongly about this and posted so others can be reminded how important examples are. Good examples and bad both leave impressions. We have a choice how we set examples but nobody is thinking like that so much now days. Sad.

I think we are in the midst of a major identity crisis and people are struggling to find who they are when in reality who they are should be the core foundation to your life. I really hope not all is lost, but I see a lot of bright young minds out there who are working hard to remind people who they are and that happiness is in you and like you said we need to build families on love and strength!

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