Downshifting

2008 06 06
The crisis of the modern society derives from it’s good wealth, we have more and more kids growing up with the clear perspective that they do not have to do (work) in their entire life because they will always have at least something to eat and clothes to put on.
In plus compared to centuries before they are not royalty, they are nothing special, they can not live their lives doing nothing and feeling good about themselves on the excuse that they have a special destiny, that they are noble among man.
So, how can we do it? How can we mature people teach our kids to take purpose and responsibilities, without lying to them that if they do not work they will die out of hunger when they know for a fact that they will not. For sure the way is not to put pressure on them that they have to be someone in this society, I am sure that they will care less as they have access now to a lot of information and they can see that just this having money and fame does not bring necessary happiness … so what ?
Someone once said that the twenty first century will be a religious era or it will not be at all, I am starting to fear he was right. But to say that we must be religious and have an objective in this … this is the worst and mot offending idea.
My guess is that in the end what I should do is give my best to be good to other people and to myself, to love God, to be active in society witch is important to me and to hope I can encourage others to believe in their own potential to share happiness.

… I have a special suggestion … the postmodernism which is the new culture states that everything is relative and that there is no truth only options that were arbitrary agreed as truths. And of course that can be true when we discus art and social studies, but to make it universal??? Were is the common sense here, people have you forgotten mathematics … exact sciences? One plus one is always two and there is no possibility of being any other answer, it is a truth, an axiom. And if we come to the agreement that there are unquestionable truths in this universe then maybe we will have more hope in believing that our life can have a reason and sense.
I propose better education on mathematics and exact sciences in the early school, it gives you a better grip on reality in later years :)