Disappearance of Respect

While I was growing up we had respect for our elders, our teachers, our police officers, and many others that probably didn't deserve our respect but we didn't actively insult them.  We were taught to show respect even if we didn't quite agree with them.  And, oh yes, we definitely were taught to respect our country, the place we called home and intended to better as we grew up.  I'm completely amazed at the disrespect shown by the younger generations to the institutions that form our society.  It's as though they believe the only way to better the society they live in is to arrogantly sit on their butts and disparage it all.

Of course, better to sit on their buts and complain is preferred to the destruction that many of them choose to show their displeasure.

So many kids are allowed to disrupt and show disrespect for anything they choose because we have become a society that demands rights for everyone to receive even if they're not providing for themselves.  They often live off their parents who perpetuate the myth that the world owes them a living and they can do as they please without consequences.  When they get into the "real" world, they are totally frustrated because those that don't love them won't tolerate them.

In recent years we have seen demonstrations of teens/early twenties "adults" deciding that they have the right to destroy the statues that are part of our history.  They are stupid enough to think that, if the statues aren't there, history has changed.  The people have even been able to convince their elders that this is a sensible thing to do.  Now that fad is over and our young adults will soon find another one to rev up their boring little lives.  Removing the statues didn't change history and their destruction didn't better our future.

It may sound like I'm blaming our young ones but it's actually their parents and grandparents who have shaped them to believe their rights supercede all others.  Did it matter to any of them that they offended a majority of the population?  Of course not!  

Thank heavens for the young ones who are rebuilding our society in a good way.  They are the ones working diligently in the background to make our world better, not by destroying what was wrong but by enlightening the confused and restoring legitimate civil rights to those who had none or little.  They are the ones who will build a new society that will benefit all of us.