Lets take a group of people and constantly bombard them with the idea that they ‘need’ certain possessions in order to be ‘happy’ and fulfilled’ say, for the first sixteen years of their lives, while simultaneously keeping them in poverty so that they can never have access to what we have trained them to believe they ‘need.’ Then lets cut any kind of funding which helps keep these people from pushing forward, achieving any kind of education, having any hope for the future or even from just being entertained for a few nights a week.
Lets make sure no one cares enough to challenge their greedy, self-centred attitudes; to teach them about respect and discipline; or to tell them that they are worth something. In fact, lets silence all other messages, except the ones telling them what possessions they ‘need’ in order to be ‘happy.’
Then lets sit back and see what happens…
You are a stirer
No, I am an ironic social commentator.
This is the fruit of a society that has tried their best to scrub away all vestiges of Christianity. What else should we expect?
Exactly.
Loving the ironic social commentary! I have heard (read) dozens of ‘reasons’ for the recent disorder; all of them mildly compelling and convincing but none really adequate.
Sadly ‘because I could’ seems to be the excuse for many people (poor and rich) for illegal or immoral behaviour (think MPs expenses). When people lose a sense of wrong being wrong – even if you get away with it – then they’re likely to do wrong!
I know that we shy away from the image of an all seeing, all knowing God watching us as we merrily sin ourselves silly… but maybe it’s an image worth hanging on to for occasional use!