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You and me both buddy. That's why I'm trying to fix the problem within myself first. It's a very lengthy project, and that realization has come with some anger at those in society who failed to guide me toward this endeavor because now I'm very far behind where I should have been.
I hear what you're saying.
I can't help but feel my forebears failed me by not recognizing and conquering this evil while it festered and grew in strength, and allowing me to be so weak.
Personal behavior and self-responsibility definitely play a part in the later, but I think a lot of us did not receive the direction in our formative years necessary to foster and maintain a strong civilization -- although those who would come to benefit from our weakness certainly played their part in this.
I don't begrudge them failing to identify and conquer the evil, but I do begrudge them failing to instill the simple lesson that men need to become strong. It's the most basic lesson we all should have been taught from a young age, but for some reason it wasn't provided to us. Now it still falls to us to figure that out for ourselves and take steps to correct the situation, but we were supposed to have some guidance at the outset that never quite materialized for so many of us.
I don't have the statistics on hand, but WWII killed a awful lot of fathers, leaving single mothers raising essentially an entire generation. That was probably where it got its jump start.
the "jump start" is the people who push this are the same people who the fathers fought for in ww2.