Pig Roasts and Angry Jewish talk radio

I was listening to some good Michael Savage the other day, I was reading “Because He Could” and I was reflecting on a wedding at the beach of a dear friend and I find myself at a nexus of three events suggestive to me of a single moment of truth.

Michael Savage was talking about the “Homosexualization” of the American male; it was his attempt to try to expand the feminization of the American male to a new end. Dick Morris talked about how Bill Clinton had lived most of his life on the dole as a government employee or as a student at Ivy League schools. And I think now as my friend Chris has achieved  a career and has married another person with a career it has made me look at the decline of birth rates in the United States and the “first world”

I know so many people who waited until their career bore fruit to get married or to have children. And I wonder if instead the course of action is to start your family before you start your career? I wonder if the moral character of struggling with a child could have made a more human corporate executive class to the needs of workers as well as the needs of preserving a company. If viewing children as a fruit, as another brass ring of achievement aren’t we starting a cycle of dehumanization with that next generation?

Think of some of the corporate greed scandals and think of people who committed them in the 80s and 90s in later life having children as some badge of courage. I think of Michael Savage as he put out his screed about the economic advantages of having no children. The jewels and luxuries you could have and then how these same people when they have kids –if they have kids- view them as an accessory. How these same career minded women view their jobs as their parents once viewed their own children.  

I think to some extent there is selfishness in holding off a marriage or child till a career kicks in. I think there is wisdom to it also. But is the struggle of trying to make a marriage work in the context of the last few years of college more important then the economic prosperity? Is that sense of struggle and even some times doom a thread that can bind a new marriage together? Is holding off till you have wealth to have children also equally flawed? Do the children give you a focus and a motive, an ability to reach down into the depths of your soul to make you a good worker? Does that sense of struggle give you a vital empathy you will need as you rise through the ranks?

Is that why we now have such a corporate and political culture of mediocrity? People who have never had the suffering and pain of the soul making such choices that are short sighted and short term?

You see people who would once have had a child filling that niche with a cat or a dog… is their any amount of wealth that can make up for the difference?

-I also know that Pets are more then just things… I am speaking to the role of filling the void with an animal-

Is there more to this world then wealth, or do the socialists and closet communists really only covet wealth and luxury that they attack those of us who are capitalists for. It just reminds me of a line from Unleashed where Bob Hoskin’s character has a jewelry store owner at his knees for failing to pay a debt. He says “I’m not a pig, I’m only taking what is owed me…” Maybe that kind of value is missing from people who only value wealth and luxury over building a life.