[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.
Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?
These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.
Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.[/quote]
Allan,
If the other parents line up in front of school with their shiny Beemers, you want Piggs to show up in a minivan?? That is pure child abuse, trauma for life. The kid could end up sky jumping with Marines.
Many moons ago I was with group of Marines who got me to jump at 13,000ft, but then they upped the ante and wanted me to cliff jump into a pond on north coast of oahu. Just as well I balked as owner chased us out due to Five 0 on his tail for allowing kids getting hurt in said pond. Damn, I got kicked out of boot camp in 2 hrs! Makes no sense, I walked home from school in Chicago, in blinding snowstorm across the frozen tundra. Chilly 65 degrees can turn anyone into a wuss.
