Wake Up and Be a Human!

Kids raised in the positive parenting paradigm I mentioned last time are a miserable lot. Statistics say somewhere around 70% are unhappy at work. Not all of this is the worker's fault. In fact, a majority of it is the fault of the corporations. They have decided a corporation is a person, as such, a slave driver. They want profit and to hell with the worker. Where once the CEO of a corporation made 35% more than his employees it's now some ungodly number over 400%! And, for the most part, he doesn't give a damn. As long as he has his jet fueled and ready to go on his next jaunt to the Bahamas his managers are free to abuse the workers. And they do. Just like the bullies on the playground the workplace is full of name-calling, sexual harassment and harassment in general. As soon as Regan made the air traffic controllers go back to work in the early '80's it was understood the corporations had the governments full support in treating the average worker like the quiet little boy standing in the shadows of the playground. And they ended up with a whole new term - "going postal."
It's not just the post office employees walking into work and shooting up the place. It's not even just disgruntled employees any longer. It's kids at school, customers at the mall, young homophobic men. They have the support of the Christians every time someone calls for a homosexual to be killed. They have the support of society every time the front page of every newspaper in the country covers a shooting. These people want to be noticed, to be remembered... and we make damn sure they are.
It was once believed it was man's ability to empathize that made us one step above the monkeys. Obviously, it's not. We've given up compassion for the right of the blind to carry a loaded weapon. Does anyone else see a problem with this? If the disabled are given carte blanche by the NRA it's not just the blind who benefit from this. It's the mentally ill as well. They are disabled, aren't they? Any schizophrenic with the voice of God in his head can scream prejudice.
At the moment, the human is no longer proving himself to be above the ape; rather, the ape is proving to be above the human. Unless we begin to make an effort to remember that we have brains that allow us to reason and make critical decisions there's going to be a point in the near future where we will be doing the equivalent of swinging around the cage throwing feces. Only the turds we throw will be bullets.