Wow. Didn’t know David is moonlighting as an archbishop: Be fruitful and multiply! Spare the rod, spoil the child!
I share his list of grievances and am delighted to see him on TFP, but his diagnoses and solutions are silly. “One of the worst things that’s happened to us as a country is…single children…[because they] receive a freakish am…
Wow. Didn’t know David is moonlighting as an archbishop: Be fruitful and multiply! Spare the rod, spoil the child!
I share his list of grievances and am delighted to see him on TFP, but his diagnoses and solutions are silly. “One of the worst things that’s happened to us as a country is…single children…[because they] receive a freakish amount of love and attention.” One of the worst things? Good grief. “The solution [is for couples to] either have a full litter you can’t pay that much attention to, or nothing at all. When the message can be boiled down to “back in my day, things were better and we were tougher”, it becomes clear that one is listening to grandpa’s ramblings again, his sweeping negative generalizations about young people and rationalizations of his own life and generation. Nearly every old person believes younger people are a bunch of “hothouse flowers.” It’s funny how so many old people consider their earlier life to be the ideal model for everyone else, no matter how miserable it truly was when they were going through it. Yes, something is lost now that correcting our children with a haymaker is culturally unacceptable, as something is always lost when cultural norms change. But something is always gained, too.
I always assume David is writing with tongue in cheek, but there are enough clues that suggest otherwise and plenty of people who eat this stuff up without a second thought. An entertaining read, regardless. Keep it coming.
Wow. Didn’t know David is moonlighting as an archbishop: Be fruitful and multiply! Spare the rod, spoil the child!
I share his list of grievances and am delighted to see him on TFP, but his diagnoses and solutions are silly. “One of the worst things that’s happened to us as a country is…single children…[because they] receive a freakish amount of love and attention.” One of the worst things? Good grief. “The solution [is for couples to] either have a full litter you can’t pay that much attention to, or nothing at all. When the message can be boiled down to “back in my day, things were better and we were tougher”, it becomes clear that one is listening to grandpa’s ramblings again, his sweeping negative generalizations about young people and rationalizations of his own life and generation. Nearly every old person believes younger people are a bunch of “hothouse flowers.” It’s funny how so many old people consider their earlier life to be the ideal model for everyone else, no matter how miserable it truly was when they were going through it. Yes, something is lost now that correcting our children with a haymaker is culturally unacceptable, as something is always lost when cultural norms change. But something is always gained, too.
I always assume David is writing with tongue in cheek, but there are enough clues that suggest otherwise and plenty of people who eat this stuff up without a second thought. An entertaining read, regardless. Keep it coming.