Wednesday, September 14, 2011

To My Grandchildern

To My Grandchildren, I’m So Sorry

My beautiful grandchildren, the light of my life, as you look around this crude, violent and crass world, believe me; we never thought it would come to this.

The innocent childhood we owed you has been stolen by mass media and popular culture obsessed with making a buck using the lowest level of talent and the maximum of poor taste. Those charged with safeguarding you have sold out to the ratings God. You are exposed to films, Television and magazines produced by the midgets that should be scribbling on bathroom walls.

We never thought it would come to this.

The safe environment we owed you is replaced with a world where you must be watched and supervised at every minute. While struggling to swallow a gnat, the judicial system frees dangerous predators to strike again.

We never thought it would come to this.

The freedom we owed you to speak, worship and gather as you please is now a dangerous ground. One slip, one mistake and you are pilloried and shunned by a society afraid to speak out.

We never thought it would come to this.

We have compromised the safety we owe you. There are those who are afraid to risk challenging those who hate us and wish us death. The compromisers vainly seek to talk our way out of danger. In an age of atomic weapons it is folly.

We never thought it would come to this.

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  2. We have become a society more concerned with beating others to the technological punch instead of protecting the innocence of youth. Whoever gets to Mars first wins. Whoever creates the sleekest piece of technological gadgetry is hailed the new king while the politicians with drawn on wide smiles make shady deals out of sight. The hollow vacant eyes of the children with ribs protruding haven't the water to shed a tear. All that matters is that missiles are sold. After all, what difference does a few million children make when there's money to be made and power to be brokered?

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