Opus 2024-202: On the Street: Cranky Is Good

I was driving across town and reading signs as I went.  One of them started off, “Through a Child’s Eyes” and billed itself as a Child Development Center.  Not being sure exactly what that meant, my curiosity drove me to look it up on line.  Yes, I do have better things to do but sometimes questions keep popping into my head.  

It turns out it was a well marketed day care center.  I found the blurbs on line to be very depressing.  This group of adults were saying that they could become surrogate parents and provide all the leadership and foundations that the children’s parents were supposed to give.  I am not sure I would want people who think they are better parents than I am in charge of my children.  It reminds me of Groucho Marks saying he would not want to be part of any club that would have him as a member.

If there is anything that our culture does not need it is the tendency to look at things through a child’s eyes.  My grandchildren can’t get the concept that a quarter is worth 25 pennies.  How could such a thing be?  When I was a child I remember telling the adults at the table that I would take the money being offered to pay for dinner when it was refused for politeness.  There are so many important things children are not ready to grasp.  We endanger civilization if we try to look at our world through a child’s eyes.

That goes double for college age students who have been brainwashed by the media and public schools.  I find it depressing that when they turn 18 they can be depended on to vote in conformity to the obvious evil of their keepers.  

What we need are more cranky old men and fewer sensitive flower children.  And, yes, I am a cranky old man.

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