When Love Vanished from the Culture.
I would like to paint a fictional bleak picture of the 21st Century from the eyes of someone still alive (figuratively speaking) in the late 20th Century. Here goes, "Hi, my name is Joe and the year is 1996. Some of you reading this might not have been born in the year I am writing this, but if you were alive in 1996 you might remember what it was like. I come from a good family, I'm 21 years old and I have a good job. If you remember 1996 the way people work here is very different from the way you work in the 21st Century. Now people see the family as a burden and as a business, where profit is the most important thing. They have forgotten that love is the most important thing in life. If I fail to love you, and you get injured, now I am no longer responsible (you say) for your hurt feelings!
In fact, in the 21st Century you only care about profit and we Canadians have become a country without values. In 1996 we still live our values in a very different way than you do here. We didn't believe that truth was relative back then, because we understand the values of honesty and integrity and we don't make slaves of anything. I can see how you live now, the family I used to know gave me security and also to our youth, and teen pregnancy wasn't celebrated. We all still had a great compassion on our youth, the elderly, and the infirm.
Church wasn't a badge we wore, or a game people played to get their foot into the door to a better position in society. Mothers and fathers cherished their children and the family is a respected institution in my world. Animals here are treated with dignity and people claimed ownership of their pets. One of the biggest changes I have seen in our society in the future is that people have learned new ways to hate one another. There is no meaning to this. Also, a big change is that no one loves or trusts each other anymore. Religious leaders are seen as evil, where I come from we can still trust our elders and leaders because they are actually trustworthy, (and not because they demanded blind obedience!)
Also, the vulnerable and infirm are protected by our society, not as mere targets for the strong minded, of senseless violence and mistrust. I can see now that most of your problems are because families are falling apart. Innocent children are being used by the adults and blamed for crimes they don't commit. Another thing this generation lacks is mercy. You have forgotten how to give and receive mercy. In fact you all are cold hearted!
I know most of you have forgotten the Bible, and the ones who claim to know it are using it to feed their greed and their rotten flesh. To a certain degree you know the right to do but you just don't do it. Some of you don't know what compassion means, and the ones who haven't forgotten, don't practice it! You all take your work so seriously and you take it home with you. Strangely enough you take your home to your work. You have eliminated the distinction between work and pleasure because you have made your work your pleasure. Go figure?
Lastly, some of you are literally killing yourself through overwork and then complaining that there is no one there to help you, when everyone is doing the same thing. You all seem blind to that thought. I don't mean to paint a too bleak a picture of the future, but I have been given a glimpse of how human beings live in the 21st Century from 1996. My name is Joe, and I'm from the past." This is Mike.
I would like to paint a fictional bleak picture of the 21st Century from the eyes of someone still alive (figuratively speaking) in the late 20th Century. Here goes, "Hi, my name is Joe and the year is 1996. Some of you reading this might not have been born in the year I am writing this, but if you were alive in 1996 you might remember what it was like. I come from a good family, I'm 21 years old and I have a good job. If you remember 1996 the way people work here is very different from the way you work in the 21st Century. Now people see the family as a burden and as a business, where profit is the most important thing. They have forgotten that love is the most important thing in life. If I fail to love you, and you get injured, now I am no longer responsible (you say) for your hurt feelings!
In fact, in the 21st Century you only care about profit and we Canadians have become a country without values. In 1996 we still live our values in a very different way than you do here. We didn't believe that truth was relative back then, because we understand the values of honesty and integrity and we don't make slaves of anything. I can see how you live now, the family I used to know gave me security and also to our youth, and teen pregnancy wasn't celebrated. We all still had a great compassion on our youth, the elderly, and the infirm.
Church wasn't a badge we wore, or a game people played to get their foot into the door to a better position in society. Mothers and fathers cherished their children and the family is a respected institution in my world. Animals here are treated with dignity and people claimed ownership of their pets. One of the biggest changes I have seen in our society in the future is that people have learned new ways to hate one another. There is no meaning to this. Also, a big change is that no one loves or trusts each other anymore. Religious leaders are seen as evil, where I come from we can still trust our elders and leaders because they are actually trustworthy, (and not because they demanded blind obedience!)
Also, the vulnerable and infirm are protected by our society, not as mere targets for the strong minded, of senseless violence and mistrust. I can see now that most of your problems are because families are falling apart. Innocent children are being used by the adults and blamed for crimes they don't commit. Another thing this generation lacks is mercy. You have forgotten how to give and receive mercy. In fact you all are cold hearted!
I know most of you have forgotten the Bible, and the ones who claim to know it are using it to feed their greed and their rotten flesh. To a certain degree you know the right to do but you just don't do it. Some of you don't know what compassion means, and the ones who haven't forgotten, don't practice it! You all take your work so seriously and you take it home with you. Strangely enough you take your home to your work. You have eliminated the distinction between work and pleasure because you have made your work your pleasure. Go figure?
Lastly, some of you are literally killing yourself through overwork and then complaining that there is no one there to help you, when everyone is doing the same thing. You all seem blind to that thought. I don't mean to paint a too bleak a picture of the future, but I have been given a glimpse of how human beings live in the 21st Century from 1996. My name is Joe, and I'm from the past." This is Mike.
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