Seeds Come To Fruition

From the Chalcedon Blog. I have a lot of Rushdoony's books, compared to other authors, not compared to how many he wrote. What is amazing is you can read his stuff from 20-30-40yr ago and it will just nail our culture on how it is. That is a testimony that in so many ways he was correctly applying God's truth to the human condition.

"Mommy, tell my professor he's not nice!"
In May of 2007, Nadira A. Hira, in an article titled Attracting the Twentysomething Worker writes,

When it comes to Gen Y's intangible characteristics, the lexicon is less than flattering. Try "needy," "entitled." Despite a consensus that they're not slackers, there is a suspicion that they've avoided that moniker only by creating enough commotion to distract from the fact that they're really not that into "work."...

With the focus in education on the needs of the child, we have raised a generation of selfish brats. From the time they were born until the day they graduate from high school, they have been told that they are special and they deserve to get whatever they want – and they believe it. When they played on the local sports team, everyone one, on every team, got a trophy....

We now have an entire generation of children entering the work force and real life in general that can not understand why everyone does not constantly gush all over them....

Once again, Rushdoony’s books of 40 years ago read like the morning paper. Why? Because Rushdoony read, understood, and expounded upon the Word of God. In 1961, R.J. Rushdoony wrote in Intellectual Schizophrenia,...

For the emphasis now is on the needs of the child, not on the demands and expectations of the culture. Once the literature of youth abounded in an emphasis on what the young man needed to know, what his spiritual armor was, what made him a complete man, a complete farmer, cobbler or apprentice, all on the premise of his responsibility to the culture and his personal incapacity if he failed to meet the requirements of manhood and faith. But the approach now is radically different…. To have a child now is no longer an act of nature but a matter of painful research. “Essential” education is in terms of the needs of the child, not in terms of the requirements of God and society. The consequences, of course, are children who are group-directed and consumption-centered, whose attitude towards life is one of appetite rather than responsibility. (pg. 75, emphasis added)...
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