Poor Impulse Control

I like that "adults" are just crafty 7th graders with houses and driver's licenses. Notice I said crafty, not necessarily intelligent. Seriously, the base emotions/lusts/ideas that drive 13 year olds are the same ones that drive "adults" the only difference is that "adults" skew things using such tools as self-promotion and (yes I'll use it again) skewed logic to justify themselves.

It took me until I was around 20 to finally realize that people, in general, have to be watched. I was raised to be respectful of my elders no matter what. "Adults" were to be treated as seniors and betters and I think I was rightly raised. Working at the Post Office HQ in Grand Rapids opened my eyes to the brutality of a sinful world. Sinful is the correct term, this world is cursed, we know it. We see it around us everyday. The results of the first failure of the human race is evident everywhere. How can I be surprised when terrible things happen to people. Watch the news, it takes about 10 seconds to learn about an atrocity. But that's what people do. People are not good. They're not, sorry, they barely ever were. Maybe that's cynicism, it's true though. I would be dead or worse without the Lord looking out for me. I honestly do not know how unsaved people make it through the day. That's why I'm not surprised at what I see on the news. People are miserable and they hate themselves and they hate others because they are so guilty.

People try to fill up their lives with action and possessions and fame and it's like putting a band-aid on cancer. It may look better, but you're still dying painfully.

Anyway, I could probably fill a moderately long pamphlet on the topic of...well human nature. Ha, like I understand human nature.

I read this book in college, Amusing Ourselves to Death, perhaps you've heard of it. I thought it was a bit preachy at the time, but the chapter on the News of the Day was right. How can you watch a story about the death of an infant in a fire and then a commercial for hair color in the same 60 seconds and not be detached and desensitized from your fellow man?

Ah, my students approach, I'm off to teach.