Comment 38541

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted March 02, 2010 at 10:12:06

Nice job rusty, especially the bit about "real jobs". 50 years ago a kid could drop out of the 7th grade, walk up to the north end and get himself a decent working-class job. If he kept with it, it would be enough to raise a family on (with their mother at home), put the kids through college, and retire. Sadly, working class standards of living have fallen a fair bit since the "golden age" of the 50s-70s. Today a young lad with more energy than patience (what used to be known as "normal") can look to fast food, stocking shelves or if he's really lucky, being stuck in an office all day - working for the sake of working.

Compound that with the vastly irrational fears spread by the media about rapists, gangsters and child molesters stuck around all corners. Whether the statistics really show that this risk is higher than it was (kids did indeed join gangs and do drugs back then, too) is largely irrelevant, since they are at far more risk at home People, by and large, get raped and murdered by people they know and care about, sadly enough, and isolating everyone will only make those things worse.

Just like puppies, kids need exercise and stimulation. And just like dogs, humans don't tend to do well locked in small rooms all day.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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