Soaring violence evident daily (reading newspapers, watching TV, seeing driving habits) makes me wonder why the world changed and I did not notice. Thinking about the situation I understood that violence is just the most extreme evidence of much deeper problem, which is how people understand the world. The average person believes that he is the center of the universe and all other objects just circle around him. This is an ignorance that can be compared to pre-Copernicus era when people defied all evidences and refused to believe that we are not the center of the universe. How did it happen that we moved backwards in time?
Well, the answer is very simple. All starts with loving parents that love their children in a way that makes the toddlers being the center of the small universe (the family). These parents does whatever they can for the benefit of children making themselves unimportant. Children are very clever and in no time they learn that they are the most important in the world, they start to rule the family and they ignore their parents, teachers and friends. In few years you get a person (I find it difficult to call him human being) that does not respect anything or anyone and will do whatever required for his own benefit even if this means stepping over bodies.
Is there anything that can be done? May be, if parents will realize that buying toys and paying for special classes does not replace love and discipline. Will it happen? Probably not, how can someone raised in a wrong way understand that it was wrong.
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