Here is a real loose timeline of the fall of our society. It's actually all very simple. It's all very obvious, the problem is there just aren't enough people paying attention, combined with the fact that we just don't have power over ourselves anymore.
1) CREDIT
It all began with the introduction of the credit card. No one talks about this, yet it is the root of all evil, and seed that spouted the hell on earth well all live in now.
In 1987, Discover introduced the first ever credit card that could be paid over time, and not in full at the end of the month. You can look this up for more info.
By the early 90's, "credit" began forcing folks to "keep up with the Jones'" at rocketing paces. Today, people love to talk about the "middle class", but never tell you the truth about how their "middle class" was built, through credit cards. In other words, a false middle class, a lower class with a temporary band aid masking the wound. The middle class used to be the folks who made 50k a year. That was enough to afford a nice home, a nice car and raise a family. Until credit cards were invented. Then credit allowed the person who made 50k a year to all of a sudden buy stuff like he made 75k, or 100k a year! Wow, amazing! The "New middle class" now meant you had a few maxed out credit cards, and probably a home equity line of credit on your house. But you're still making the same 50k a year. Now you have a lot of stuff. But you also have a ton of DEBT.
2) DEBT
By the mid-90's, credit cards were a way of life, and massive debt forced both Dad and now Mom, to go out and work to keep up with the bills. No more breakfast, lunch and dinner served by Mom. No more running to the door to greet dad when he gets home. No more family meals. No more family structure.
3) RISE OF CHILDREN IN DAYCARE DUE TO MOM'S BEING FORCED INTO WORKPLACES TO KEEP UP WITH NEW FAMILY DEBTS. "AMERICAN FAMILY" DESTROYED. (You can go ahead an lump the whole rise of PC into this, but to keep it short and on topic, we'll stick to women in the workplace.)
www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/archive/child_care.shtmlThe dramatic increase in the labor force participation of mothers is commonly regarded as the most significant factor fueling the increased demand for child care services. A person is defined as participating in the labor force if she is working or seeking work.
In 1947, just following World War II, slightly over one-fourth of all mothers with children between the ages of 6 and 17 were in the labor force. By contrast, in 1999 over three-quarters of such mothers were labor force participants....in 1999, over 64 percent of mothers with preschool-age children were in the labor force, a rate more than 5 times higher than in 1947. Women with infant children have become increasingly engaged in the labor market as well.
Today, 60 percent of all mothers whose youngest child is under age 2 are in the labor market, while in 1975 less than one-third of all such mothers were labor force participants. 3) SOCIETY TURNS ON WOMEN, FORCES THEM INTO WORKFORCE TO INCREASE CREDIT SPENDING/RISE OF DAYCARE CENTERS.
How do you enforce the majority of women to not only stay, but aspire to join the workforce and make sure Americans continue to live off of credit instead of succumbing to the madness, and getting back to manageable lives? Make being a stay at home mom a bad thing. Enter the PC demon. Equality, all that bullshit. One day, a woman living her life with her children at her side, under her protection, and her care, became a bad thing. So now, not only should most women work to support their massive spending habits created by make believe money they don't have, if they don't work, they're just stupid women being held back by evil man. Right? And that brings us to where we are now.
4) WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?
Here are the kids of the 90's and the 2000's. Parents stressed out, drowned in debt, working multiple jobs, and in many cases, end up divorcing.
According to the 1995 U.S. Census Bureau Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), over thirty-six percent of families of preschoolers with working mothers primarily relied on child care in the home of a relative, family day care provider or other non relative. Almost twenty-six percent of families used organized child care facilities as their primary arrangement. This was the both the beginning and end of family values as we knew it. What happened next?
5) THE FALL OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER/PARENT RELATIONSHIPS: Around this same time, parents got fed up with teachers telling them how bad their kids are. Over worked, over stressed parents send their craved for attention kids to school, and when the teachers can't handle them, the parents blame the teachers. The relationship has been fractured since, and it's never getting any better. So now the kids are in the middle of this now. The kids get even wilder. What are we going to do next?
6) MEDICATE KIDS.
The parents can't raise these crazy bastards. Their too busy buying shit and working 50 hours a week to pay for it to raise a real family. It's not the teachers job to be a parent. So what do we do now? Medicate the shit out of them. Maybe that will shut them up.
And here we are. Country full of people in debt, under stress, raising attention-starved kids who don't respect their teachers or anyone else, and their main form of communication in life is a fing hand held computer. All doped up with nothing to do but get in line for the next sweet phone, or get on Facebook, or tweet something. usually something hateful.
And people are surprised by all these kids shooting up schools. We're all too busy running to the internet to look at the pictures of these poor kids, and read all the stories. Make sure to get all those clicks in!
Maybe when everyone is done they'll wake the f up and address the real issues. I don't know.
