That song was done by the Boomtown Rats and was made in response to the school shooting carried out by Brenda Ann Spencer on January 29th, 1979 in San Diego, California. I admit that I had mentally lost track of it, but it always has been floating around in my head, re-emerging from time to time. I was 14 years old and living in San Diego at the time. The shooter was 16. When asked why she had done it, she answered, “I don’t like Mondays”.
Two people were killed, and 9 injured, including 8 children. It was a horrifically shocking event which, I’m sure, everyone at the time said they’d never forget. Ok, so how many of you who were 14 or older in 1979 remember? How many of you have heard that Boomtown Rats song and never knew what it was about?
We forget and we forget and we forget – and then comes the next massacre and we wring our hands and swear we won’t forget. But, we do – and then repeat the process. If we want it to stop, then we have to remember….and keep remembering and start thinking about how it happened. How is it that prior to 1979 we never had someone pick up a gun and randomly shoot at a school for no identifiable reason? To be sure, you can find long lists of people who were murdered at schools over the ages – but in each case there was an identifiable cause; some grievance against the school, or the school authorities, or some of the students. Something you could logically connect to the crime…not because a bored person decided they didn’t like Mondays.
We’ve lost our morals, my friends – that is it. Only a people increasingly lacking in basic, human decency can breed people who will just kill for no reason. Until we get back to basic, human decency we won’t get anywhere. Just more massacres and more memorial services and more (empty) pledges to never forget.
UPDATE: Rush gets it:
I said, “Twenty-five years ago we were warning about what was going to happen if X kept happening and Y kept happening and if we didn’t stop Z.” Well, now, we’re there. We’re no longer talking about what will happen unless we do something about it. We’re living it. We’re living the collapse. We’re living the implosion of our culture and our society. Politically, morally, religiously, you name it, and it all stems from the fact that no one is allowed to have values. Values are judgmental. You have no right to impose values on people.
The death of our civilization is proceeding precisely as predicted in decades past – stodgy, boring, old conservatives (and a few wise liberals) pointed it out and pointed it out and explained with charts and diagrams that all this would happen if we didn’t change course. We didn’t change course. We just doubled down on doing it wrong – and now people pretend to be all shocked about it? Astounding.
Get ready to start imposing the old morality (and, of course, all of us must start by imposing it on ourselves) or get ready for death. Pick one. There are no other choices.
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We’ve lost our morals, my friends – that is it. Only a people increasingly lacking in basic, human decency can breed people who will just kill for no reason.
Or people who are just such lazy parents that they decide to let psychotropic drugs be their baby sitter.
Spook,
My general view is that psychiatry is quackery – there seems to be little thought in psychiatry for the human will. We’re all just products of our past – everything is determinist and nothing is absolutely wrong (though people who are violently insane must be locked up). Couple that with the drugs – which I do believe are massively over-prescribed – and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. Do understand that I think there is some worth in it – I have been helped by it, myself, in past times. And trying to understand how the mind works is a worthy object…but also remember that it was psychiatrists who essentially gave us our pass to misbehave; who told us that all that old-fashioned, religious nonsense about absolute standards of right and wrong had to go…
I posted this in the previous thread but it bears repeating here. Mike Huckabee states very eloquently the path our society has chosen, driven by the liberal agenda, and a path of which we need to reverse course on soon. It’s a great read:
I’ve said some controversial things from time to time, but none which prompted such a backlash as when I stated that the horrific shooting in CT of school children and teachers couldn’t be blamed on God because we’ve systematically marginalized God out of our culture by removing Him from all aspects of the public square. The vicious attacks that have resulted, most of all of which are based on total ignorance of what I actually said have actually validated my point, but I’m quite certain that was not the intent of both the professional and amateur critics who have demanded everything from my being banned from ever speaking in public again, or wished me a slow and painful death. On that alone, I wish to acknowledge that the left has again shown that it defines tolerance and diversity as being tolerant only of that with which it agrees, and diverse only to include slight shades of the orthodoxy of liberalism to which they adhere. They abhor censorship of their own profanity, obscenities, or graphic violence, but are the first to demand that a voice that invokes the name of God to be silenced. A specific act of violence is rarely the result of a specific single act of a culture that prompts it. In other words, I would never say that simply taking prayer and Bible reading from our institutions or silencing Christmas carols is the direct cause of a mass murder. That would be ludicrous and simplistic. But the cause and effect we see in the dramatic changes of what our children are capable of is a part of a cultural shift from a God-centered culture to a self-centered culture. We have glorified uninhibited self-expression and individualism and are shocked that we have a generation of loners. We have insisted on a society where everyone gets a trophy and no one loses and act surprised that so many kids lack self-esteem and feel like losers. We dismiss the notion of natural law and the notion that there are moral absolutes and seemed amazed when some kids make it their own morality to kill innocent children. We diminish and even hold in contempt the natural family of a father and mother creating and then responsibly raising the next generation and then express dismay that kids feel no real connection to their families or even the concept of a family. We scoff at the need for mothers and fathers to make it their priority to train their children to be strong in spirit and soul and responsible for right and wrong and exalt instead the virtue of having things and providing expensive toys, games, and electronics that substitute for parenting and then don’t understand why our kids would rather have ear buds dangling from their ears, fingers attaching to a smart phone, and face attached to a computer screen than to have an extended conversation with their family at dinner. And we don’t teach them there is a Creator God who sets immutable rules, a God who is knowable, and to whom we are ultimately responsible. Instead we teach that God was not involved in our origins, that our very lives are biological happenstances and in fact are disposable should they be inconvenient to us, and that any outrageous behaviors are not sin, but disorders for which we should be excused and accommodated. I realize my viewpoint sounds out-dated and archaic, but when that world view was the foundation of our nation’s social contract, we got in trouble at school for talking in class, chewing gum, pulling a girl’s pigtails, or slouching in our school desks. We took guns to school, to be sure, but they were in the gun racks of our trucks and we used them to hunt before and after school. It never occurred to us to use them to murder our teachers and fellow students. So yes, I can stand the contempt and criticism of the left. I’ll gladly accept their scorn as they substitute creative language with a steady stream of profanity-laced tirades that I’m an idiot, a throwback to the past, and a person who should be forever silenced. But when we as a nation feared God, we didn’t fear that a 20 year old with a high powered rifle would gun down our children in their schoolrooms.
Mark, Cluster, Spook
BINGO!!
But when we as a nation feared God, we didn’t fear that a 20 year old with a high powered rifle would gun down our children in their schoolrooms.
We PRAYED the Lords prayer in the morning, then at noon went out to our cars in the school parking lot checked our shotguns and rifles over & went hunting.
First day of pheasant or deer season.