Growing up, family and culture exposed me to a set of values: civility, personal responsibility, self reliance, compassion, loyalty, honesty, obedience, reverence, thriftiness and diligence. As a young adult (school, Boy Scouts, Catholicism), I tried on these values, and as I became a mature, educated person, I decided to keep and live by most of them.
It’s been discouraging to me to see, in this contemporary world, that most of these values have been turned on their heads. Each generation has to define itself in its values, live them out and live with the consequences.
These days, the world seems more and more perplexing to me.
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