Not long ago I heard that Trump had declared that he can fix our national woes in six months’ time once he regains office. Wouldn’t that be super? I don’t doubt that he can, and will, rectify a great deal of what’s amiss. He can close the border and deport all the illegals we can locate. He can rescind all the idiot mandates Biden has put in place — pull the transfolk out of the military, stop the sexual mutilation of children, thin the government bureaucracies, stop the ridiculous spending — a lot is under the presidential purview to fix. But some things are not.
For one, we have several generations that have been ill-educated by our schools, both public and private. This wouldn’t be hard to fix if it were only this last, this Covid generation, but things have been sliding downhill precipitously since the 60s. We will have to re-educate our educators, but where will we find knowledgeable, literate, traditional teachers to do that? Our young people know little about our national history, about the philosophy behind the inception of this country, nor do they grasp the connection between freedom and God. They are steeped in situational ethics, convinced that their only responsibility is to provide themselves with pleasure. They are not particularly interested in getting married and raising children. And they are filled with propaganda re evolution, climate change, and sexual perversion.
I’m painting this with a broad and crusty brush and I know (I teach in a private Bible college.) that we do have amazing young people in this country — kids who are smart, well-taught, respectful, and eager to get to work. We also have thousands of really superb teachers. My concern is with the proportions — do we have enough splendid youth and reasonable instructors to carry the load? I don’t know; only God does.
I also have my concerns about our health system. Not only have I lost respect for the way the medical profession handled the Covid mess, but the pharmaceutical companies no longer appear to be our friends (I may well have been late to that understanding.). This tangles back into the education system; I’m not sure I’d like to be operated on by a Baltimore-educated surgeon or cared for by a nurse who has no moral foundation.
Now, we can quit worrying about climate change. It may change, but the climate of this planet, affected as it is by celestial bodies we have no control over, and hampered by the policies of other countries — that we have no control over — is not something we can helpfully lose sleep about. Time will provide the answers — if there are actually questions — but I’m concerned about the mental health of the generations whose thinking has been poisoned by the constant hammering on the dire consequences we’re told we face. Did no one stop to think what feeding our young people on a diet of doom and hopelessness would do to the welfare of a child’s mental state? When I was a high school English teacher, I read paper after paper about the fears and emptiness in their lives. I had a ringside seat on the death of our children’s happiness. And what, pray tell, can a high school sophomore do to rectify the situation — if there actually is one?
https://pacificbible.edu in southern Oregon. She teaches writing, logic, and literature. She can be contacted at 1window45@gmail.com
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