Limitations

Yesterdays entry was a bit of a ramble.  Sorry about that.  But if your time management skills are such that dropping by here to read this screed is something you do, you must also by now realize that I won't be going to Oslo to pick up my Nobel for literature anytime soon.

So after yesterdays inchoate rant about the nature of a fractured society and the moral and intellectual roots of the fracture, today I want to talk about a subject anathema in out post-whatever world.

Limitations is an ugly word in our lexicon.  But on the whole, the limitations that we place upon ourselves, either spoken or unspoken, define our success within the society that we are a part.  What we are seeing is a push against the limitations/rules of an older society.  What the people doing this pushback do not realize is that changing the limitations of the society changes the world around them in a manner that they might not like in the long run.

Here in America, we have a group that has decided that the rules that brought us here to this point in time are not appropriate.  That is probably true.  What they have also decided that since the rules are not appropriate, there should not be a set of societal rules at all.  This is not true.

People seem to innately understand that these limitations exist in the groups that they are a part of, but people cannot seem to accept that other groups have sets of limitations and that the limitations of the other groups may well be greatly different from the limitations of the groups that they are a part.