Evolution Today

Every so often I will stop and think about how the future will be. Aside from the normal "How many grandkids will I have?", "Will I ever pay off this mortgage?", thoughts. I wonder what we are doing to the next generation. How will the way we live now, effect our children as they grow older?

We are living in the age of information. Never before have we been exposed to so much of it. Is it too much? When my parents raised me, we read books, newspapers and watched the news to find out about the world around us. In modern times, anything we want to know about, and even things we don't, are displayed before us on a little LCD screen. We get to SEE, visually absorb information. How is this effecting our children?

The upsurge in adolescent violence, sexuality, depression, are all direct results to being over exposed to these subjects. Our children are becoming desensitized to the very things that we would have found horrific in the past. Not only are they witnessing it on the news, internet, movies and television, they get to partake in video games that glorify this violence. The line between right and wrong is no longer a definitive solid one. Subliminally they are being fed a double standard.

So, in the future what kind of adult will your child be?