They Call Me Cookie to My Face

  In another post I posed the question as to how the suburban housewife is suddenly launched into street life. What exactly is assaulting the innocence of the stay at home mom or working suburban tiger mom? What monster is responsible? I've realized the answer was right in front of me the whole time.  This monster doesn't exist.  The suburbanite has never been innocent in drug culture...EVER! Nor have they been innocent in any other vice of epidemic proportions.  These benzo driven members of society have always been high and have always looked the other way.  I watched a documentary on Netflix called "Abducted in Plain Sight." It follows a family whose young daughter is taken advantage of by a family friend. Turns out he not only had sex with their underage daughter but he also had sexual encounters with the mother AND the father.  Suburbia is a trash can of vice.  They look down on the poor and call them losers. All the while they rape, murder, sell ...

1 Corinthians 13:11: " When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things."-NKJV *If you want the original Septuagint  translation go find it yourself.   Video games. They get blamed for everything; violence, sexual debauchery and general sociopathic tendencies.  They get blamed for everything except being vehicles of preserving and passing on culture and values throughout time.  Many would argue that a grown person who plays video games is immature. They have much more productive things they could be doing instead of sitting in front of a TV with a controller in their hands.  Of course, there is too much of a good thing. Some adults become addicted and neglect their responsibilities. This being a reality, I still would like to argue that gaming as one ages is not only a sign of maturity but an obligation to the universal language of survival skills. In China, games are ...