We each and all need daily hugs, JenniferW...but so many need to birth and nurture our deeper more-informed human capacities to respond beyond self-entertainment and superficial thought. Adolescence is destined as the stage that bridges a gradual awakening from self-absorption to a civilization consciousness that calls for our time and talent.
Look at cultures world-wide. Then look at ours ... where growing up has been overly delayed...to the extent that the developmental door has actually shut keeping biological adults as offspring living still within the fabricated womb of MomDad throughout our most potentially prolific twenties and early thirties.
Preference for idle-living amidst parental lifetime-earned luxuries ... rather than risk spreading our own self-reliant wings within our very own self-generated tiny room, hovel or tent is manufactured, not inherent. Not natural.
Not organic.
Instead it reveals a cultivated "softness" whose primordial scream has been philosophically muffled. Manufactured. Woodrow Wilsonized. GMOed. Capacity to self-generate our inborn self-reliance, DNAed since inception, and launched full blast since our terrible twos has been intentionally stifled. Under the guise of an oxymoron misnamed methinks intentionally as "progressivism." Who could argue with those terms? That guise? Progressive for whom?
Time for a really serious change (not more of the same).
Stymied and truncated potentials kept trapped in self-absorbed adolescent awareness is like Alice fully fallen down the rabbit-hole, the trap-door slammed shut. Oxygen-compromised, Alice becomes mesmerized by her own image in the mirror. Our world needs grown-ups ... all grown-ups informed with the hard facts of life in other places. Europe is in fact now in dire straits from the uncontained spread of serious suffering levied from malicious error-thought. I encourage us to read and write from consciousness-raising non-fiction of Arizona physician, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and AIFD. Jasser's writing illuminates the wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
