Sometimes, just sometimes, I see things that make me believe, however briefly, that our country might yet be salvaged.
For instance, the flyer to the left was dropped in our mailbox today by, as it says, a teenager in our neighborhood. In and of itself, it is nothing tremendously interesting, but the root causes of it are what interest me.
Sam is apparently interested in doing pretty much whatever unskilled or not-very-skilled manual labor as may be necessary for him to save up money to purchase a car. This tells me two things: his parents are unwilling to simply give him a car, and he is actually willing to work for something he wants.
I do not know about the rest of you, but both of those observations warm the cockles of my little heart. On the one hand, I am very happy to see that a set of parents is not catering to the “entitlement” society we have been creating around ourselves for the past few decades, and on the other hand, a teenager, the very example of “slacker” throughout the history, is actually willing to abandon parts of his care-free summer in order to procure something he wants.
Sure, it is just one person, in just one small town… but things like this still give me a little hope.
movin’ and cruisin’ | would you like a little tooth with that grin? | call in the choppers |
Go Sam go! All our local labor of the sort is emigrant…
For being just shy of Appalachia, we actually have a surprising amount of that here, too. Though, if it helps them pay for their families without governmental handouts, more power to them as well. Sadly, that is probably not the case…
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