Apathy

Ben, I've been thinking about what you said about my generation being called the "apathetic" generation, and I think I've discovered a pattern. Back in the late 1700s to mid-1800s, the families with money had very easy lives, and their children didn't have to work very hard. Thus they became apathetic, and began to lose money. So their children had to learn how to work. They earned money, and life began to get easy for them again. But then came the depression and the world wars, which reinforced the habits of hard work. Immediately after WWII, life started getting easier even for people in the middle class. But there were all the immegrants from countries destroyed by WWII who had to work hard because they had nothing. Some of them passed these habits on to their children, who worked hard. All the while, life is getting easier and easier. Now many of the parents are not passing on a work ethic to their children, mainly because the popular style of parenting is to send them to daycare and let others do it. So, we have my generation where their are many kids with almost no ambition or work ethic, and as a result they will lose money and their kids or their grandkids will realize that we really screwed it up, or that they will have to work to get anywhere, and the work eithic will be integrated back into life. This isn't to say that laziness is good, it's just an interesting pattern I discovered. By the way, most of this is a generalization about today's culture, I'm not saying everyone is like this. There is a Jesus-factor to all this. Real Christians aren't lazy, or they shouldn't be.