(09-19-2022, 02:12 AM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: This is the new modern fashion they are pushing on our youth. They are telling them they don't have to listen to their parents. That it is cool to wear your pants hanging off your ass, even if you are a female.
Do you recall "hot pants".. "hip-huggers" and "daisy dukes"? The more things change, the more they stay the same... I recall my ma, and grandma making the same observation on then-current trends that you make here.
Quote:Like I said. There are some youth that are too smart to play the game. I am just not sure their numbers are great enough.
I see this insanity all the way out in the country. I see in the homes of friends and family. I deal with it weekly on the job. And trust me when I tell you, the majority of our youth are not prepared for what is coming. It is a hell of a lot worse than most people "want" to believe.
You can't warn the youth because they won't listen. You can't warn the parents because they are in absolute denial, and have more excuses than words in the English language.
I see it out here in the boonies, too. Just today, I saw a black guy (something of a remarkable sighting in itself out here - like a sighting of a rare bird or Bigfoot) walking beside the road when I went out to the Big City with the Bright Lights for my grocery run. More than just a black guy, he did not appear to be a local - he was all "gangsta"-ed up. White t-shirt with black print 3 sizes too big, cap hanging sideways and still tagged, gray jams, shoes without strings, etc. Just as i got up beside him, he reached across his body with his right hand and drew a pistol from his left-side waistband, right there in front of God and everybody. Good way to get yourself perforated out here, but he seemed oblivious - just another indicator that he was an import, rather than domestic. Who the hell checks their "gat' at the side of a busy highway? Only logical reason to draw it would be to shoot something.
I just kept going, and decided that if I heard any loud noises behind me, I'd just pull a bootlegger and flatten his ass, then pull another one and continue on my way.
You are correct that the majority of today's youth is entirely unprepared for what is coming. But then I refer to your comment that "There are some youth that are too smart to play the game." then I think of the following quote:
Quote:Hard times make hard men.
Hard men make soft times.
Soft times make soft men.
Soft men make hard times.
Cycle repeats.
... and I know it's all gonna turn out ok. We may just be in for a culling. Nature has a way of weeding out the weak links, even when humans try to stymie nature. Another friend of mine, long dead now, used to say "In the end, the Wild will win", and that is as true now as it was all those decades ago.
So, it may not really take that many. There are those out there, like Snarl's son in law, and my son, who just ain't gonna play the game by someone else's rules, no matter what outlets they try to release those rules on. They were raised differently, and will act accordingly when the chips are in.
During the Revolution, only 3% were hard core, and they changed the world, even in the face of British opposition and masses of Tory neighbors drinking the monarchical kool-aid.
So it doesn't take many, it just takes dedication of the few. In the end, the Wild will win.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’