Great piece Greg!! Like the Undertaker in Godfather I, "I Love America;" however, it has purposely diminished the currency of manhood. It has offered a surrogate of sorts called cartoons, toys, sports, etc to help mask the recognition that puberty is not the transition from childhood into manhood, but it is the crossover from childhood to manhood. depending on what authority one listens too, a boy does not become a man until he is 18 or 21; however, nature gives him the tools of manhood during puberty. Would nature permit a child to have children? Absolutely not! Consequently, in our once great nation, manhood is delayed until at least 18 and in most cases...21. Although I do not drink beer and personally detest the smell, if the country will trust 18-20 year old men to defend this nation using some of the most sophisticated instruments of destruction ever devised, then why can't he whip out his military ID and have a drink. We trust him with democracy, but not a few drinks! This notion buys into the delusion that these young men are still children.
How Absurd!
But, when I consider the men who sit in the pantheon of the gods, who direct the activity of civilization, I understand why the idea of manhood must be delayed. It for the same reason that slaves were not permitted to joint the ranks of infantry during the Civil War. If you offer a boy the right of passage at 11 years old, and strip him of his childhood instruments, there is a much better chance that this young man will learn responsibility and possibly develop an ambition that would threaten the men sitting at the control levers of our planet. But keep that same young man tethered to the notion of childhood until he has been fully indoctrinated through grade-school and then college, he will then be more willing to participate in his own destruction.
Am I the only one seeing the humor in this?! Many of us in the West spend 12-20 years in institutions of learning, but come out and work for someone who is destroying our health, our economy, or ecology, or morals, our families, our children, etc., etc., etc.
Oh, by the way, if you teach a slave the art of war, he will no longer remain a slave." -David R. Tolson, scholar
...disrespecting image of Ayatollah Khamenei is the epitome of the lack of development of our young men in the Holy Land. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories
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