No apology for writing this ... it is an imperative duty under present conditions.
by Dr. Douglas P. Blackthrone
Though easier and perhaps far better, not to begin at all, yet if a beginning is made it is there that most care is needed. Everything is inherent in a genesis. So I will record
simple genesis of this affair as a modern day observation of life as it has become … infected with A.I.D.S.
It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing any thoughts to conclude it with some sort of apology; in form of a disclaimer or statement of no account-ability.
But there are times, and surely present-day is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary.
In an age as we watch:
*** every standard of decent conduct, business and life itself having either been torn down or threatened with destruction;
*** when married men and women, heads of households, prefer to allow their kid's hero to have magical powers rather then good common sense, intelligence and thought;
*** when quite young girls with deep personal problems are showcased as teen role models and even, I am assured,
sometimes young boys as well;
*** when mature women, mothers of these unhappy children, enter race for all mighty dollars and cents - instead of nurture their offspring and family;
*** and when every newspaper, TV and computer screen is daily reporting scenes of violence, divorce, parents on strike and be something your not with no effort;
- - - Then it is obviously a task, not to be justifiably avoided, to place some higher example before world.
For some time - I am now mid-forties – have I been sensing this with increasing urgency. And when not only my wife and four co-workers, but 3 fellow business associates, approached me with like suggestions, I felt that delay would amount to wrongness.
That wrongness, by many persons, is now lightly regarded, I am, of course, only too well aware. That its very existence is denied or easily dismissed by others is a fact equally familiar. But I am not one of them. On every ground I am an unflinching opponent of wrongness. I continually redirected it in others. I strictly attempt to refrain from it in myself. And for that reason alone I have deemed it incumbent upon me to issue these thoughts and insights.
The wrongness of which I speak is growing misrepresentation of business entrepreneurial thought, action and ultimately account-ability. Wrongness not from point of view of mistakes being made from time to time, but wrongness in form people attempting to do things they have no experience, idea or knowledge of what they are doing.
