Live for Today Culture.
I've been pondering what is going on in this country and recently arrived at the conclusion that we have sucumbed to the idea that all that matters is today. There is no tomorrow in modern america.
The concept that all we have is this moment is common among children. A young child only knows that he is hungry, happy or sad this moment. There is no later. All needs must be met at the moment. As a child matures he doesn't like later but can understand that dinner will come in a while. Later a child begins to understand the concept of an event that will come in a few days or weeks, Santa will bring gifts next week or you can have a bike next spring. The child learns to set expectations and plan accordingly as trust is built that tomorrow will come.
Some cultures seem to be permanent childish cultures. Trust is never established in tomorrow so all these cultures know is today. In these cultures a full belly, a compliant woman, and a place to sleep today is all that matters. One could be eaten by a tiger or killed by a landslide today so tomorrow is just impossible to consider. Get what you need today and worry about tomorrow if it comes. The third world is third world because they have no future.
Most young adults in america only think about today and that is not unusual. These mature children only think about what movie to watch, what intoxicant to consume, where the next orgasm will come from or how to differentiate themselves from the herd to appear to be cool. They don't consider career, pregnancy, disease, debt, arrest as a possibility because they just don't think about tomorrow. So they get the tatoo or piercing, buy the expensive cell phone and service plan, have unprotetced sex with the hot gangsta and don't learn anything at school. They are blindsided when tomorrow comes with no job because of the lip piercing, the cell pnone bill they can't pay, the herpes and baby, as well as being utterly unprepared to perform meaningful work for living pay.
Many american adults behave like children, buying the big house and SUV that they can't quite afford trying to look cool today, ignoring tomorrow. They save nothing for retirement because tomorrow will have to take care of itself. They too are blindsided when tomorrow arrives and they have to pay back the loans and provide for themselves in their old age.
The US government is acting just like children, living large today and acting like there is no tomorrow. Annual trillion dollar deficit spending with 100 trillion dollars in unfunded yet mandated social spending over the next 50 years. Who will pay for it? Politicians neither know nor care. There is no tomorrow, all that matters is that we look cool and party today.
Our forebears left us factories, farms, aqueducts, systems of family and governance...and a future. They planned for tomorrow and did without today so the culture would thrive and live on. This generation and culture has no faith nor trust in any future. There is no tomorrow to save or plan for. Without trust or faith in tomorrow, america will look like any one of the third world shitholes in the near future.
Ghettos don't cause culture but culture causes ghettos. Too many people in america have embraced a culture of live for today that results in ghettos that scream THERE IS NO TOMORROW. Our dictator's mantra of hope and change cannot and will not deliver either as his party organs destroy all remaining trust in our society. I see little hope that american adults can turn this around before it destroys us forever. Another generation or two of this thinking and the concept of a trust based society will fall into the memory hole never to re-emerge.
The concept that all we have is this moment is common among children. A young child only knows that he is hungry, happy or sad this moment. There is no later. All needs must be met at the moment. As a child matures he doesn't like later but can understand that dinner will come in a while. Later a child begins to understand the concept of an event that will come in a few days or weeks, Santa will bring gifts next week or you can have a bike next spring. The child learns to set expectations and plan accordingly as trust is built that tomorrow will come.
Some cultures seem to be permanent childish cultures. Trust is never established in tomorrow so all these cultures know is today. In these cultures a full belly, a compliant woman, and a place to sleep today is all that matters. One could be eaten by a tiger or killed by a landslide today so tomorrow is just impossible to consider. Get what you need today and worry about tomorrow if it comes. The third world is third world because they have no future.
Most young adults in america only think about today and that is not unusual. These mature children only think about what movie to watch, what intoxicant to consume, where the next orgasm will come from or how to differentiate themselves from the herd to appear to be cool. They don't consider career, pregnancy, disease, debt, arrest as a possibility because they just don't think about tomorrow. So they get the tatoo or piercing, buy the expensive cell phone and service plan, have unprotetced sex with the hot gangsta and don't learn anything at school. They are blindsided when tomorrow comes with no job because of the lip piercing, the cell pnone bill they can't pay, the herpes and baby, as well as being utterly unprepared to perform meaningful work for living pay.
Many american adults behave like children, buying the big house and SUV that they can't quite afford trying to look cool today, ignoring tomorrow. They save nothing for retirement because tomorrow will have to take care of itself. They too are blindsided when tomorrow arrives and they have to pay back the loans and provide for themselves in their old age.
The US government is acting just like children, living large today and acting like there is no tomorrow. Annual trillion dollar deficit spending with 100 trillion dollars in unfunded yet mandated social spending over the next 50 years. Who will pay for it? Politicians neither know nor care. There is no tomorrow, all that matters is that we look cool and party today.
Our forebears left us factories, farms, aqueducts, systems of family and governance...and a future. They planned for tomorrow and did without today so the culture would thrive and live on. This generation and culture has no faith nor trust in any future. There is no tomorrow to save or plan for. Without trust or faith in tomorrow, america will look like any one of the third world shitholes in the near future.
Ghettos don't cause culture but culture causes ghettos. Too many people in america have embraced a culture of live for today that results in ghettos that scream THERE IS NO TOMORROW. Our dictator's mantra of hope and change cannot and will not deliver either as his party organs destroy all remaining trust in our society. I see little hope that american adults can turn this around before it destroys us forever. Another generation or two of this thinking and the concept of a trust based society will fall into the memory hole never to re-emerge.
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