We
all sit in astonishment as predators come and snatch our children from us,
wondering why, wondering why no one can stop them, wondering where they come
from, wondering if anyone cares, wondering if God cares, wondering if they're
truly of the human race.
They come in the garb of humanity, perhaps draped in the robes of clergy, or suits of respect or wrapped in rough working clothing or the attire of a youth. But all of them have the same desire: they want to kidnap, to rape, to murder, to torture, to kill and to hurt. They are destroyers. They are humans doing inhuman things.
And they're doing it to our children and to us.And some of them are mere children.
And some used to be.
I'm astonished at the absolute ignorance of the vast majority of Americans. I guess I shouldn't be but I am. We read the news accounts and creep back into our wall papered existence, pretending the evil doesn't exist. And we debate endlessly, pontificating to anyone who will hear our shouts of outrage and anger and frustrations. Opinions bounce around the e-world like pong balls, never accomplishing anything other than to draw the attention of others who bounce their word-balls against ours.
We listen endlessly to the babblings of shared ignorance as fools debate one another and display their stupidity naively to the world of Springer-Lativa gluttons. And we wonder why no one can understand the problem?
It is said that sheep are the dumbest animals under the sun. They can get lost in sight of the flock. They really are stupid. Is it any wonder that Christ likened us to sheep? It was an apt characterization. Americans are being shorn and bleat their cries of bewilderment to one another, too ignorant to see that they have bought the shears and trained the shearer.
Our children are trained from birth to laugh at violence, to see violence as a laughable thing, something done to achieve success, something to do to another in order to win. One only needs to watch the cartoons to understand this. As they get older, the violence gets more graphic. Now the violence comes as a game. Now they no longer participate merely with their minds but their hands and body are engaged in "killing" someone or something or destroying someone or something. In their teens, their imprinting moves to another level. Now they see movies that are far more powerful than the most effective thirty second advertising spot could ever achieve. Instead of a thirty second ad, their minds are pulled into a maelstrom of violence that is equal to dozens of powerful advertisement strung together.
And the ads are working.
But we Americans are not content. We want more than that. We want the fiddler to play us to the grave. So we pay our children to go out and purchase music that will sear their minds, that will hypnotize them into syncopates who indeed "march to a different drummer." The Pied Piper appears in garish costume designed to shock and draw attention, designed to excite the "rebel" and invite the devil. And with a swagger and John Waynesque demeanor, our children leap into the darkness we've helped finance.
And we are shocked and confused and can't understand when they don garish costumes and do goulish deeds.Stupidity's sister is Ignorance and we've dated her too long.
We'd best come to understand that our children are being programmed. We're helping finance that programming. But a growing number of our kids aren't able to cope with the programming. Stresses come along that most all of America's kids were once able to deal with and emerge at the other end stronger. Now, they're cracking. And instead of working through it, they're dealing with the stresses the way they've been trained. The thousands of hours at the "death games" and the "death videos" taught them how to solve a problem.
We've taught them well. And we financed it.Will the sheep awaken and realize that once they quit paying the producers of "scare movies" and "death games" and "hate rap" and music that glorifies evil and glamorizes death, the predators amongst us will diminish? You see, once we take away the program, we, the parents, become the programmers. And once we take over the role of parenting and emerge from our stupidity, shedding our ignorance, we will begin to see children growing up into healthy adults instead of bizarre beings we hardly recognize.
It really is your choice.It is your choice to give that child the money to attend the latest "gore" movie or "horror" movie. And go ahead and give money for the music that rips the soul from your child and gives it to a man with a painted face who is placing words of hate and evil into his or her head. But don't weep for that child when his mind is bent by that powerful force. Don't wonder why. And don't blame him. Don't look at her and say "How could you?" Don't look at the dead bodies and become angry at him wondering how he could shame you with such a despicable act. He was just doing what your education taught him to do.
Don't wonder why your child is an addict when hundreds of hours of music glorifying drug use was pumped into that child's mind. Music you paid for, maybe even purchased.
So look to yourself at the tragedy of your child.
You are the blame. You were ignorant. And you chose to be stupid.A bad date can be dumped, you know.
The End
copyright 2001
Voyle A. Glover
