jbe - we've been around the tree enough to realize our positions on the issue - I apologize if you took offense - it isn't "you" that is fueled by the "everything-is-OK moral culture," it is the system that seeks to control the experiences of youth, including formal public education, news, entertainment, etc., that uses moral relativism as bait and then balm for soothing the conscience of the victims.
Many have a poor foundation for doing anything but menial work and are stuck in minimum-wage world. They aren't equipped to deal with the realities of a career. When things don't go their way, they want someone to fix the system instead of fixing their own attitudes.
Some of the unfortunate victims of this system are disaffected, frustrated, angry, educationally and therefore economically disadvantaged and are never going to be self-actualized, successful adults. All too many of them have run-ins with the law, often permanently relegating them to low-or-no-income job status.
You should talk to high-school and college kids. Their grasp of issues is dangerously shallow, but you can see why if you ask questions - they parrot headlines, regurgitate rumors and have trouble even naming individuals. They know everything about rock, punk and rap, and innumerable TV personalities and shows and they think the President is "cool." They also think we - us, as in people in business - owe them a lot because they can't make it on their own.
Again, no personal offense intended, my friend, but it is our educational system and media (both news and entertainment) that are slowly, but surely turning parenting into a function of "the village," which perpetuates mass-dependency on the government for everything from ideas to bread.
The left is getting what we're paying for.
Mr. K.
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