Goodbye to the blogosphere part 3

Today I say goodbye to the mattandrivers of the world, the few people who take the time to work with the children we have brought into this world. I host the rough equivalent of a seminar every week with people of all ages in the real world, and I have spent a fair amount of time working with children trying to educate them about their obligations to the planet and their fellow man. Those who are like mattandriver spend gargantuan amounts of time working with children doing the very same thing. These people nurture young minds when their parents have abandoned the obligation.

In order to turn humanity back from the brink of the abyss, millions of mattandrivers need to be found, and encouraged, but all journeys begin with the first step, and the first step for humanity needs to be the involvement of adults. We need people who can vote right now for changes, and it’s going to be a good eight to ten years before the children Matt and I work with are old enough to vote. We need people who can roll up their sleeves right now and began making the changes that are required in all of our personal lives, that are needed to gain traction against the problems that confront us.

For example, adults need to become more conscious of their need to conserve energy. Instead of buying that Escalade, perhaps you can spend a little less money and purchase a hybrid car. Take the time to recycle your trash instead of throwing out valuable items that can be reused. When you purchase something, think about not only the consequences of your acquisition of that item, but think about the consequences of millions of others purchasing the same item along with you. What effect will that have on the environment?

There are many other areas and many other ways that adults need to become involved in our future, and the above focus on the environment is indeed an important one, but only one of many. Where this post started, which was with the children, is yet another area where we have dropped the ball, and need to focus as much of our energy as possible upon. If you are looking at the complications we are facing from the lack of adequate parenting, it is entirely fair to say that we have as many problems as we have people.

I have truly failed in my endeavor with this blog. The easy part was getting people to admit that we had massive problems in front of us. The hard part was getting them to do something about it. Just last week I had a gun rights activist who allocates tremendous amounts of time, as do other gun rights activists, to protecting the right to bear arms, whimp out on a post of mine. These guys have been so successful, and so well organized, that they recently were able to shoot down legislation that primarily attempted to prevent terrorists from obtaining guns in this country. Despite the obvious example of their success with gun rights, I actually had this gun rights activist tell me, no plea with me, “that one man cannot solve all our problems”.

To the mattandrivers of the world I sincerely apologize, as I was never able to encourage any of these activists, no matter what the cause, to abandon their particular special interest, and come over to the side of fighting for the survival of humanity. Perhaps the mattandrivers of the world are the only hope the future of humanity, and while I fear that we do not have ten years left before we must begin the fight, I thoroughly appreciate the contribution the mattandrivers are making. I can only wonder what the world would look like now if all of us were doing the job twenty years ago, that mattandriver is doing now.