Where Have the Future Generations Gone?

Billy Joel once penned the following verse to one of his songs: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world was turning". He had some truth to this verse with one exception. I also had the honor of reading the book "The Fall of The Roman Empire" by Edmund Burke which details how the Roman Empire fell. The book details what is happening to the Western World in the present tense.

We are living in a society dominated by the culture of death, obsession with violence, divorce, hatred, family divisions, big expectations which when unfulfilled brings about the blame game, sex without stopping [pre-marital]. We condemn other societies for being savage yet we commmit the same savagery with the dictum "You are with us or against us".

Every year, the cycle repeats itself and getting worse. Our education system fails us because it teaches us values against the family. Our entertainment system fails us because they want us to put materialims above the family. We ultimatly fail ourselves, our spouses, our children for not spending quality time because our work demands more and more of our time without giving anything in return.

It is then that we wander why our society is bad as it is. No class escapes from this. Who cannot forget the story of John Walker Lindh. John Walker Lindh as a child had a house but not a home since his father and mother were too busy doing "other things". People of his generation went to drugs and alochol, he found refuge in Islam and betrayed the country he was born in [the USA].

While I will not condone the behaviour of John Walker Lindh, it should be used as an example of how we are failing the next generation and what should be done.

There is a solution. We should at least sacrifice our desires to the desire of our children. We should turn off the TV and the Internet and have family time. After work, when we relax, spend time reading a book or playing with our children or go celebrate with other family members a birthday. We must remember the verses of the song by Mac Davis which says: "You gotta stop and smell the roses. You gotta count you many blessings every day. You'll gonna find you're way to heaven is a rough and rocky road, if you don'stop and smell the roses along the way".