{"id":307453,"date":"2017-05-10T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/you-are-the-true-guardians\/"},"modified":"2017-05-10T03:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T02:09:42","slug":"you-are-the-true-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/you-are-the-true-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are the True Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are the traditional signs of a dark age.\u201d\u2014 Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people.<\/p>\n

They will find themselves overtaxed, burdened with excessive college debt, and struggling to find worthwhile employment<\/a> in a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion. Their privacy will be eviscerated<\/a> by the surveillance state. They will be the subjects of a military empire constantly waging war against shadowy enemies<\/a> and government agents armed to the teeth ready and able to lock down the country at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

As such, they will find themselves forced to march in lockstep with a government that no longer exists to serve the people but which demands they be obedient slaves or suffer the consequences.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a dismal prospect, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we who should have known better failed to guard against such a future.<\/p>\n

Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Worse, we neglected to maintain our freedoms or provide our young people with the tools necessary to survive, let alone succeed, in the impersonal jungle that is modern America.<\/p>\n

We brought them into homes fractured by divorce<\/a>, distracted by mindless entertainment<\/a>, and obsessed with the pursuit of materialism<\/a>. We institutionalized them in daycares and afterschool programs, substituting time with teachers and childcare workers for parental involvement. We turned them into test-takers instead of thinkers and automatons instead of activists.
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We allowed them to languish in schools which not only look like prisons…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen the rivers and air are polluted, when families and nations are at war, when homeless wanderers fill the highways, these are the traditional signs of a dark age.\u201d\u2014 Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. They will find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}