A worthy read by a simple (albeit genius) FB friend.----"...A nation that asks nothing of government, but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart..."

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“Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. 

It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. 

A nation that asks nothing of government, but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.”
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
"As time passes, cultures exhibit stages of maturity – a defined lifecycle. 

As times change and the old are replaced by the young, a culture progresses, and mores and attitudes change as the members and their perspectives change. 

The maturity level of a given culture is often expressed by the maturity level of the younger demographic as it prepares to assume control of the culture.
The Greatest Generation enjoyed unparalleled prosperity in the post WWII years. 

This prosperity provided the opportunity to extend childhood through leisure opportunities afforded by that prosperity. 

• Parents of this generation wanted better for their children, striving to create an easier life for the Baby Boomer kiddies, and as a result the Boomers grew up in an environment where they had and did more as they received the benefits of their parents’ success.
  
• Protected from the harshness their parents knew, Boomer children grew up in far less demanding circumstances; however, their resulting training as adults was incomplete. 
• Where their parents worked as children to assist in family survival, Boomers worked after school jobs to pay for comic books or to buy things they wanted. 
• Reaching adulthood, Boomers also sought to “make things better” for their kids to the point that they (and the culture they built) began to frown on children holding even a part-time job (even making it illegal in some circumstances), substituting “enrichment”, sports, or sloth for the lessons a job would teach their children..."