What in the world is wrong with our society? Do you ever wonder why our society is having such a hard time maintaining a civil behavior? Are you reading today’s news and thinking to yourself that something is terribly wrong with this picture, and how could this happen? Is it just me or does it seem like these messed up events are occurring more frequently than they ever have. You think to yourself that these things didn’t happen when I was that age.
Let’s sum up just a few of these crazy things. Children are yielding guns and shooting others in schools all across our country. One school labeled a 6 year old as a “sex offender”. Sex education is being taught to younger and younger children in our public schools. Our televisions spew shows where the father is the idiot of the family. We have eliminated prayer and any display of Christian belief from our schools and public buildings. Our government doesn’t follow a budget (if it can make one). We have rogue states passing laws that contradict our federal laws, and a federal justice system that won’t defend their laws. We have kids all across this nation that are wanting and needing to be adopted, but the system for adoption is so costly and time consuming that many people adopt children else ware or don’t even try. Social services are so filled with work they can’t keep up, so bad that if small children are home alone, as long as there is some food in the house – they are OK. They are OK. Are we kidding ourselves?
We need to ask ourselves, where do we go from here? Will it get better just the way it is? In the manufacturing world there is what’s called the 5 why’s. When you want to get to the bottom or to the heart of the problem, you ask a simple question….why? You ask this question over and over until you reach a point where there is no other reason but the one you are left with. You can ask why – and usually before or within 5 of them, you will be at the heart of the problem.
I think that if you look at any of the problems I mentioned above, or any of the countless other problems our society is facing, you will be amazed at how easy it is to find the source of the problem.
So if the problem isn’t that we can’t define the source of the problem, then what is the problem? Are we afraid of the answer we may get? Will it hurt someone else’s feelings? Is the answer we find just too hard to accommodate, too costly, so undoable, to simple maybe?
So why does a 6 year old boy kiss a little girl?
Brian Seibert, SeiberTALK. 12/13/13
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