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.
