A fourteen year old boy shot and killed a thirteen year old girl Friday, here in the affluent Western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia.
Thirteen. Fourteen.
There’s a child dead, another child whose life is, for all intents and purposes, over. Do the races, religions, sexual orientations, or any other marker we use to characterize human beings matter?
If you want further evidence of the dysfunctionality of our time, consider that one of the dead girl’s classmates, a girl I’ve known since she was a toddler, made a suicide attempt last fall. Unsuccessful. Still.
Explanations, analyses, commentaries on cable news channels, Congressional testimony won’t change a damn thing. How much money should we throw at these problems? Members of the intellectual/professional class might get grants to research violence among children, but none of them can resuscitate the dead.
Let’s stop thinking we are one published paper, one drug patent, one comprehensive law away from Utopia. ‘Cause we ain’t.
Dispatches From Dystopia 
I think a lot of out youth’s problems have to do with the breakdown of the family and modern technology. Fathers are regarded as superfluous, mothers are more interested in their phone than their children, children are not disciplined nor taught they are not entitled to everything they want, etc. I could go on and on about all the wrongs in this world that have turned our children into lost souls. And we aren’t much better.
It’s depressing…
Yes. It is depressing and our children learned the cultural narcissism from the Baby Boomers and they’re passing it on to our grandchildren.Meanwhile we expect the education system to impart values and discipline without God. It is depressing. Me have to start being fathers, women have to start being mothers, first and foremost. This is not to say women should not have careers outside the home. There is simply a set of priorities that must be acknowledged. It’s painful to think about and contradicts what’s promoted these days.
I think the education system should not be imparting values—that’s the parents’ job. But then, parents (generally speaking) aren’t doing a very good job of it. Probably because, in reality, they have no values other than what MSM and celebrities say are desired values. I don’t know what it will take to bring society to its senses. Sometimes, the thought of a worldwide EMP event sounds pretty damned good.
Oh yeah. What comes first, the moral bankruptcy or the intellectual bankruptcy?
Hard to say…so often, they go hand in hand. But if I had to guess, I’d say moral bankruptcy. But then again, it’s the intellectuals teaching our children socialism, this transgender nonsense, that villages should raise children, not families. And I’ve even read about the PC crowd wanting to do away with the terms mother and father, change it to something like caregiver. I see no good end to this current nonsense.
Oh Lord yes. Too tired right now to carry this discussion on, but just look where the Bolsheviks took Russia.