I think I was censored last night on Facebook. It's probably just as well, since I wrote it late at night and it may not have been well stated. But, I hate losing so many words that I typed. I will try to restate it here. Hopefully this will be easier anyways since I was trying to type on my 8inch tablet in bed last night.
I've remained silent for too long on this topic. We see increasing mass violence in our society. Many are shootings. Recently we've had outbreaks of mass stabbings. As we prepared to start Family Home Evening last night, my oldest son showed me a headline of another shooting with three killed in Kansas. We claim that we want to reverse this trend and find ways to stop these things from happening, but we seem only willing to put band aids on a bleeding artery. Are we as a society really willing to identify and accept the root cause of all of this violence? I am not sure that we are because it is contrary to the current trends and popular "enlightened" beliefs that frees us from all responsibilities.
In industry, where things are not as politically charged, when an incident occurs, we perform a root cause analysis. This involves many iterations as we dig deep to find the actually root cause. We do not stop at the initial, simple finding, but keep digging until we can identify policies and procedures that will help prevent the incident from occurring again. In our politically charged, political correct, easily offended society we can't get past the band aids. We blame guns, video games and mental illness, but we don't dig deeper to find the real cause.
Why? Because the real cause will offend many. The real fix will not be popular because it will require many to accepts truths they reject because they don't like them. Well, there comes a time when we must face the fact that the popular way of thinking is wrong and damaging. If we truly want to improve our society and reverse this trend of violence, now is the time.
So, enough preamble, I'll get right to what no one wants to hear and start offending. The root cause of the violent decay of our society is the deterioration of the Family and the relaxing of morals in recent generations. I will not state studies or findings in support of this (although any honest study would support it), but I base this on eternal, unchanging truths. There has been a war on marriage, the family and chastity for a very long time. Don't believe me? Look up the current divorce rate. Number of births to single, unwed mothers where the father has absolutely no involvement. There are far too many children growing up without the influence of a loving mother and father or other loving support. I would ask how we would expect anything less than unstable teens and adults when so many are growing up this way?
I could go on and on in this manner, but I will let the reader fill in more from his/her own experience. For now, I will just state that if we really want to end all of this violence, we must strengthen the family. We must reverse all of the popular trends that devalue the family and start building it up again. This will take a few generations because we already have too many people who have grown up without a good model for what a family should be; but if we don't start, we'll just continue to spiral downward.
So, done for now. I will discuss more specific topics in the future and really start offending the "enlightened, progressive" crowd.
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