I was running work tickets for rooms at the hotel yesterday when I viewed something on the 2nd floor that blew my mind. Here was 4 or 5 little kids, from 4 to 10 years of age, from an affluent white family here in town on vacation for the weekend: the children were in the hallway outside of their parents' rooms--each child had a tablet, a lap top or a smart phone, upon which they were doing whatever they were doing.
It came to me that these are weirdly, different times. What type of future citizens are we cultivating with all these easy gadgets and electronic automaticities in the hands of babies? Are they capable of running a future constitutional democracy? Are these the noble, moral super-citizens that will maverize and run their federation of cantons in a so different future?
These children will need a lot of guidance, ethical and spiritual upbringing, and work ethic to prepare them to take over and run a very different world from anything that preceded it. God bless them and humans for the future.
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