Killer Culture

From the Boy Scout Motto to the "bug" chasers was quite a stretch for me. I will give Kupelian the credit he deserves for being able to take his thoughts through so many problems of today while he is watching his son in a Scout meeting. Kupelian brought out several points that I thought were worth repeating. He drew comparisons of the cultures of today with the wicked cities of the Old Testament, Sodom and Gomorrah. In drawing these comparisons he showed how simple it is for cultures to fall so far so fast. He provides a solution with a specific goal of withdrawing our children from the public school sytem. Though I do not agree with his solution I am inclined to agree with him on theory of degradation of society.

When forming his comparisons with the Old Testament cities, he descibes them as being the ultimate place of societal degredation. In the 1950's movie, these two cities were made to embrace all that was horrible and thought to destroy cultures of decency and prosperity. I was caught off guard when Kupelian compared our culture to these two cultures. I was always under the impression that these two cities embraced even more worthless cultural habits than we might as Americans. Kupelian clearly showed that we are worse than those two cultures of their time. We have as a society been forced to accept this degradation as the ability of the people to express themselves. I have always felt that I might have been born several years too late because I differ so much with the mainstream of society. I do not accept that people will harm their bodies and chase disease all in the name of self expression, but I do acknowledge that this country was set up to allow for such ideals of expression.

Finally, his ideas of seperating our children from the public schools is ridiculous. The way to change a society is not to withdraw from it, but to live in it and represent your ideals to be appealing to others. I take for example the Polygamists. They have had little success in changing societies views of them by reclusing themselves from the mainstream public. They have taken this idea of seperation to an extreme, but what does Kupelian think will happen with the children when they have to particiapte in society to make money or got to college? He does bring up good ideas of placing our children in wholesome activities and being a strong part of their lives. This is good advice no matter what civilization a person lives in. It is more critical now that parents teach their children what is expected of them, because if we are not willing then their are many who are just waiting for the opportunity to do so.