Well, I don't want to give the impression that I think all is lost...
On the contrary, I'm very positive about my future and the future of my kid. There are very few nations out there today where a child can grow up poor and end up rising up to a higher life style all on his or her own.
When I walk around town I know that out one out of 25 people here are completely illiterate... one out of 20 never completed high school! We have people on this very forum who struggle with the basic English it takes to get their point across. They can't even write in complete sentences... let alone use any sort of grammar. I think that in the future, society will grow pretty tired of dragging the unemployed and lazy through life.
There’s a book called ‘Brave New World’ where everyone is classed at birth into a caste system where their entire economic and sociological standing is based on preset genetic mutations. There is a bread class of geniuses called Alphas who are the leaders and at the other end of the spectrum there are the Deltas that are just above mental retardation, whose job is to clean the streets and do other menial tasks.
I think that today’s society is built pretty much the same way, but the separating factor of the “class” system is drive and resolve as much as it is intellect and talent. So when I see a 30 year old working at McDonalds… I figure that, ignoring any outstanding struggles he had in his life… he probably worked just hard enough to get where he is. In other words, he paved out his own future.
Now, I’m not saying that if you work at McDonalds you suck, or that that 30 year old will never make it any higher in life. I’m just saying that with the opportunity presented to the average person today, that there is nobody else to blame but that individual for his or her own failure.
You may say that your parents hate you… or beat you… or ignored you but, you are still responsible for you. That’s the bottom line. Obviously, there are exceptions but I know that my hard work will send my son to a high price private school where he will most likely get a better education and get into a better college than most of the kids who go to public school. I worked really hard to achieve this and I believe that it is my right to work hard and send my son to a school that others can’t afford so he will have a better life because of my hard work.
The beauty of it is this, just because my son has a better upbringing doesn’t mean that he won’t end up at McDonalds when he’s 30… and just because the McDonalds guys son goes to public school doesn’t mean he won’t be a doctor or a lawyer some day. It’s all based on self worth and self determination.
So I do believe that most parents today are not fit to have children, I think that looking to a government to raise your one children and provide a moral guideline is lunacy… but I think that blaming anyone but yourself for any aspect of you life is cowardice.
I talk too much… feel free not to read this!
