I posted a while back (too lazy to find the link) about why a society of free men and women are incapable / unwilling to simply identify those things in their society they don’t like and make the needed changes to eliminate those things.
In part, I think that we are trying too hard, whereas if we allowed things to flow more as God created them, and used our God-given common sense, life might be much better. Consider these stories:
Using nightlights may contribute to leukemia because the human body is sensitive to day/night cycles and disrupting it through artificial lighting at night is bad for you. This is surprising, but you know, God did create day and night, darkness and light and pronounced it good. Should it really surprise us that disrupting that good creation is bad for us?
Let’s see, it also turns out that exercise is more important than being thin, in preventing heart attacks. And oddly enough, even a little exercise is worlds better than none at all.
Now, God created man with two legs, and put him in a garden, and told him to get to work. We have traded the garden for a cubicle, moved away from the workplace, and now drive rather than walk. Consequently we are in poor health and traffic is getting out of hand. If we kept to a more agrarian lifestyle, we’d probably be in better health. If cities were not artificially zoned, they might develop in more natural ways such that people could walk around. But we get to messing with stuff and sure enough, it breaks.
And finally, consider the family. It’s not natural for parents to send their children to be cared for and educated by strangers. But we do, and then we start to count on that so we can have our careers, and sure enough schools in Britain may soon stay open for extended hours. Well why not just turn them into boarding schools and let parents come by to visit for a couple hours in the evening?
While you’re at it, continue to let teenagers watch smutty TV and don’t be surprised when life imitates “art”.
And lest we shelter our children or make them socially awkward, it’s imperative that seven-to-ten year old girls continue wearing makeup.
That’s all just stuff from this morning. How much better it is to keep our kids with us (considering the history of US public education), keep our little girls innocent, and _censor_ the media consumed by our children. That’s just sensible.
We make things too hard on ourselves. The ground has already been cursed; no need to go about planting thorns and thistles on our own. We adopt this artificial lifestyle that involves making sure we live far away from where we shop and worship and work, so we need cars, so we have traffic problems. We also come up with types of work far removed from tending the garden, and we spend too much time in our cars, so we don’t get any exercise, so we get fat and die of heart attacks. Or we pay a lot of money to work out at a gym and go on odd diets that don’t work. We need extra income to support our suburban lives (and pay for our gym membership) so we shuttle the kids of to public daycare kid warehouses schools, and then we need those schools to stay open really late because we can’t get off work and drive through the bad traffic fast enough to pick them up. And while we aren’t looking, our little girls wear makeup and dress like tramps, then when our kids get a little older they act like the wanton characters they watch on TV.
There has to be a better way.