Crime,
delinquency and mental illness, although rooted in individual willfulness and
ambition, are actually planted and nurtured by culture. This is precisely the
reason why nations cannot solve any of their problems. The stubborn pride of
man traditionally points at the symptoms of sickness (which are the result of
corrupting cultural influences) and labels them the disease itself.
Traditionally,
parents tend to blame their problem children rather than admit that the
offspring are projections of their own troubled selves. Parental help is
rejected by troubled children because parents are the root-cause of the problem
and their "help" only drives children deeper into a psychotic state.
Let's
get straight to the heart of the principal cause behind national and family
strife: People become dehumanized through the very weaknesses which culture
promotes, namely, national pride, sexual pride and the pride of ambition. The
effect of ego-reinforcement which we derive from effort, from striving and from
pushing, actually reverses the positive effects we are trying to achieve. The
harder one tries to "make it big" for oneself and family, the worse
off everyone becomes.
Once
we become infected with the spirit of pride and begin striving for superiority,
we actually become inferior creatures of habit, responsive to motivators who
literally consume our substance while glorying in both our successes and
failures. The pain of our loss at the hands of a motivator compels us to become
destructive, to apply degrading pressure to others, especially to our families.
Pride
is very arrogant and defensive regarding its culturally implanted
imperfections. This being the case, it follows that the error of your way is
almost undetectable (to you, at least). The next time your beloved son comes
home high on something or other, notice how in his eyes you will seem to be the
bad guy for observing his errant behavior. Not surprisingly, children have a
special appreciation for their buddies who do not see their wrongs, just as you
parents have your entourage of friends (fiends, really) who accept you as you
are. You may see your children's faults and they may see yours but you rarely
see your own mistakes, because you are all too fixated on one another's evils
and too busy judging to discern your own faults.
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