Alchemist,

If your reasoning is correct, why do you believe that "this society has reached its zenith and is now just unravelling from within the education, bureaucratic system, social obligations, responsiblitities and family structure"?

How come it didn't unravel 50 years ago, or even 100 years ago? What was the "true life experience" that teachers got then that they don't get today?

The Alchemist is correct. I was married to a schoolteacher for 25 years. Teachers don’t even question whether there is a God or maybe that she is black. The sacrosanct curriculum covers all thinking.

Multinationals now interfere in the education process so when a child leaves school that child becomes socialised under a multinational’s way of business thinking. Modern Australians have developed the robotic mind where they do as the master says via the 'hip-pocket' nerve. Where are our emotions? Does 'love’ for others exist any more?

Families split up and family breakdown is normalized. The State, the Church or the School don’t care because the people who now work in those institutions have been ‘educated' the modern way, to look after self and nothing but self. Looking after Number 1 is the core of the system.

Communication is aimed at career and the next sale, even the dishonest sale, and not family. Ethics and morals have broken down and “yes” means “no” and “no” means “yes”, and “maybe” is another way of lying.

Fifty years ago we had Full Employment. My sister after passed her Leaving Certificate in the 1960s applied for 10 career jobs. She received seven replies, had five interviews and was offered three jobs out of that 10. That is full employment.

In my parents' era there was hardly any education. My father left school at 12 and went straight into the workforce, and my mother left school at 10. A lot of people in Australia’s early history could not read or write. Did Australia suffer from it? No. There were more ethics and honesty and loyalty in those days than in a month of Christian Sundays of today.

Business was done on the shake of a hand. Modern life is corrupt compared to yesteryear and now our youth take drugs, commit suicide and have emotional problems. A Rave Party with Ecstasy tablets will make them feel better.

The control freaks, most especially the "politically correct control freaks" (PCCF), have mucked up Australia. Blaming parents for not being able to make their children different from the way the PCCF are trying to make them turn out is a battle. My two children aged 19 and 21 are doing fine, but, I consider that I have been lucky to be raising them before the major damage to Australian society has been done.
Who would want to bring children into life in Australia today?

The Australia media is controlled by a homogenous group of mostly male sickoes who like degrading women and children and promoting male violence. Outlets like the ABC are obsessed by sexuality and programs that seek to destroy the human attributes that have kept us civilised.
I noted a recent report that the notification of abused and neglected children in Queensland increased from 31,068 in 2002 -2003 to 40,829 last year. It is a major job for the government recruiting and training the staff necessary to look after all the forlorn children. It is all indeed shameful.
But the economy is doing fine and the media are just giving people the crap they want say the control freaks.

And who in Australia is not a politically-correct control freak? That is what society has become and now is. We saw political correctness in action in the Cronulla tiots.

Pope Benedict is telling Iran what to do.

Pray tell Pope Benedict is a pawn and really is it his business to be preaching on topics he probably knows little about.
There is much trouble in the Catholic church that could be attended to before interference in international affairs.

Jane, Hooray for your comments, I find them so true and as a true just turned 60, BB with no children of my own except a stepdaughter of 32 years with three children of her own,allunder 6 who rule her home I am amazed at the behaviour they are allowed to get away with. Like Keith I don't advocate some of the beltings we got in the north of England during the sixties, I do think an appropriate smack is far more effective than the mixed message pendulum of screaming or indulgence. And whatever happened to the word "NO"? It seems to be totally lacking in many of the lives of friends and colleagues who have grandchildren, including my partner aged 67 who allows his two grandsons 9,11 to get whatever they want from the fridge, whenever they want. They have so social graces with regard to the bodily functions and think it hilarious to burp or break wind not only in front of me but outside in shopping centres, movies or the inevitable Maccas, whilst I am made to feel like the ogre from hell when I attempt to call them into line and tell them their behaviour is not acceptable. I think too often these parents and grandparents who have do not have the courage to be disliked by their offspring are leaving a frightening legacy of children/adults who will have no sense of having to work or wait for their material needs, depending on money to be endlessly supplied by some other person and/or take whatever they want because they have never been taught the satisfaction of having waited and earned the rewards of your own efforts. Many years in the English police force showed me that most children in the mid sixties in real trouble were those where money could buy any amount of distraction, be it drugs, cars, clothes etc but there was always the anger and feeling that the parents didn't really want them and were buying them. Not a good feeling. truefemale