Comments on: Age Verification Showdown in North Carolina http://techliberation.com/2007/07/26/age-verification-showdown-in-north-carolina/ The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:06:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2007/07/26/age-verification-showdown-in-north-carolina/#comment-46868 MikeT Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:01:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/26/age-verification-showdown-in-north-carolina/#comment-46868 <p>I can't help but think that the reason that most families may have problems with this sort of thing is that they are pursuing mindless materialism. Many parents themselves simply don't get, it when it comes to their own happiness and fulfillment: it takes second stage to their kid's needs. We need more traditional, stay at home parents. That is the closest thing to a silver bullet we could ever have. Unfortunately that would mean undoing years of feminism, and telling many men that they will have to sacrifice a lot of the material benefits they get from having a wife or live-in girlfriend who works full time.</p><br><p>The fruits of "modernity" are proving more and more poisonous. The more that both parents work, the more kids have problems and the weaker families are. This is one of the many symptoms of the disease. The parents are so busy chasing materialistic pursuits that they can't even parent anymore. I think that the "progress" we are seeing is not toward a better future, but one of even weaker families, more government regulation and greater desperation to keep basic social fabric together.</p> I can’t help but think that the reason that most families may have problems with this sort of thing is that they are pursuing mindless materialism. Many parents themselves simply don’t get, it when it comes to their own happiness and fulfillment: it takes second stage to their kid’s needs. We need more traditional, stay at home parents. That is the closest thing to a silver bullet we could ever have. Unfortunately that would mean undoing years of feminism, and telling many men that they will have to sacrifice a lot of the material benefits they get from having a wife or live-in girlfriend who works full time.

The fruits of “modernity” are proving more and more poisonous. The more that both parents work, the more kids have problems and the weaker families are. This is one of the many symptoms of the disease. The parents are so busy chasing materialistic pursuits that they can’t even parent anymore. I think that the “progress” we are seeing is not toward a better future, but one of even weaker families, more government regulation and greater desperation to keep basic social fabric together.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2007/07/26/age-verification-showdown-in-north-carolina/#comment-38964 MikeT Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:01:27 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/26/age-verification-showdown-in-north-carolina/#comment-38964 <p>I can't help but think that the reason that most families may have problems with this sort of thing is that they are pursuing mindless materialism. Many parents themselves simply don't get, it when it comes to their own happiness and fulfillment: it takes second stage to their kid's needs. We need more traditional, stay at home parents. That is the closest thing to a silver bullet we could ever have. Unfortunately that would mean undoing years of feminism, and telling many men that they will have to sacrifice a lot of the material benefits they get from having a wife or live-in girlfriend who works full time.</p> <p>The fruits of "modernity" are proving more and more poisonous. The more that both parents work, the more kids have problems and the weaker families are. This is one of the many symptoms of the disease. The parents are so busy chasing materialistic pursuits that they can't even parent anymore. I think that the "progress" we are seeing is not toward a better future, but one of even weaker families, more government regulation and greater desperation to keep basic social fabric together.</p> I can’t help but think that the reason that most families may have problems with this sort of thing is that they are pursuing mindless materialism. Many parents themselves simply don’t get, it when it comes to their own happiness and fulfillment: it takes second stage to their kid’s needs. We need more traditional, stay at home parents. That is the closest thing to a silver bullet we could ever have. Unfortunately that would mean undoing years of feminism, and telling many men that they will have to sacrifice a lot of the material benefits they get from having a wife or live-in girlfriend who works full time.

The fruits of “modernity” are proving more and more poisonous. The more that both parents work, the more kids have problems and the weaker families are. This is one of the many symptoms of the disease. The parents are so busy chasing materialistic pursuits that they can’t even parent anymore. I think that the “progress” we are seeing is not toward a better future, but one of even weaker families, more government regulation and greater desperation to keep basic social fabric together.

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