Addicted Kids

CNN reports that twenty-five percent of college kids are addicted to either alcohol or drugs. What are we doing to our kids? And its not them the drug dealers or seedy, single-parent friends that are the cause. Just look in the mirror. We have created a mess, and if we dont get a handle on what we are doing to our kids, then our country and our world is going to burn up, in a very short time.

Why do we saddle our kids with such expectations, crushing them? Why have we bought into the whole corporate ambition and competitiveness thing that is poisoning our youth? Gas guzzling SUVs that we buy only to stroke our insecure egos. Religious stupidity to insure that these insecure little egos go to heaven or whatever place our deluded religious leaders come up with.

Our kids are smart, a lot smarter than they let on, and a lot smarter than we are. They might play along for awhile, but they silently observe, and down deep they hate the duplicity, the hypocrisy. "If my parents trust God, why do they act as if the world is everything?" they ask themselves. The kids know that our religions are but trumped up insurance policies for huge egos out of control, and they cry for something deeper, something real.

Nothing in the world is there for them to trust, not even their parents, who exist in a dream world, pushed and shoved by economic forces unleashed by powers much too sophisticated for unfortunate parents to even conceive of, let alone resist. But the kids know, intuitively, and when they finally decide to do something about it, which will come as a revolution making the 60s seem like a cakewalk, then the world will change.

It has to change. Everyone cant have it all; we will all kill each other trying. How are these kids going to afford the things that their parents have? Not in this new global economy. Everything is leveling out, and India, China, they will be at par with us soon; Mexico and the U.S. will be indistinguishable, and believe it or not, everyone will be happier. We are not a happy culture although we put on a good face. We are a fearful culture. We are scared to death that someone will get what we have, and God be damned, we will never let that happen!

The transition will be devastating, traumatic, for those attempting to hold on to what they have and not share it. We will come to the brink of nuclear war over this, maybe over the brink, but in the end, our kids will prevail. A new society will emerge, and this time it will be different. This time it will be real. This time it will be full of authentic love, not competition, hatred, anger, dependencies, and attachments.

I cant blame the children for drinking, we have driven them to it. Why dont we wake up?

Copyright E. Raymond Rock 2007. All rights reserved

E. Raymond Rock of Fort Myers, Florida is cofounder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center, http://www.SouthwestFloridaInsightCenter.com His twenty-eight years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents, including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk. His book, A Year to Enlightenment (Career Press/New Page Books) is now available at major bookstores and online retailers. Visit http://www.AYearToEnlightenment.com

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