Kind of like America has forgotten how hard it was to become a nation from a pile of former colonies with pretensions of being States. The media, always wanting to control you for their enrichment, would like you to think there is an EASY, Sexy, or just NEW way to improve your manhood. Modern times and modern methods, we know so much more... or we just haven't really paid attention to the past, or have forgotten it.
I remember better being a young boy and raising a young boy as I find myself falling swiftly apart and apologetic for all my lack of bestness (I know that isn't a word, but the media will get around to it, if they are proactive enough). I am just not the man I once was. Still I have something left, as I play tossing a ball to my grandson, he isn't ready for my thoughts on war or politics, on work or love, but he is ready to play gently (or just a bit rough once in a laughing while). I am hoping to be around for Canasta and conversation, some day. Card games, board games all help socialize the young - if played with their elders. School, church and books give us a lot of material to work with, and there are the terrible influences of our friends, but real men to watch and work beside, to hear an honest praise or a terse critique of one's failure from one who knows and has been there - makes me want to read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer again. There was a walking commentary on boys becoming men. Most of us kind of forget how it came about.
If we continue to live beyond our History, our roots, in our American experience... we aren't going to be better, we are going to be so much less for trying to get it easier, faster, and into the spotlight...
2 comments:
You're right Earl, and it doesn't bode well.
I especially like your comment about playing with their elders. That is what is missing in all those automated baby toys -- the parents and siblings.
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