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is a victim. The have-nots claim victimization at the hands of the successful.
Crime is sanctioned by the fact, real or imagined, that the criminal had an
unhappy childhood. Gone are the habits American once admired:
industriousness, self-discipline, commitment.
The combined effect of these sicknesses, rooted in phony doctrines of
liberalism, has been to tax the nation’s optimism and sap its confidence in the
future. And it is the young who are strikingly vulnerable. They are being
deprived – like no previous generation – of the emotional comfort and moral
nurturing provided by the traditional family. Instant gratification is the new
order of the day. Personal impulses, especially sexual, are constantly
stimulated by popular music and television, with other mass media not far
behind. TV and music often seem to honor everything that the true American
ethic abhors – violence, infidelity, drugs, drinking – and to despise
everything that it embraces – religion, marriage, respect for authority.
No wonder it is difficult to sustain parental values and parental
community.
Behind the popular culture lies a capitalist system whose development
now also contributes to the erosion of family and community. The individual
flourishes best in small neighboring communities based on the traditions and
habits of the family, the church, the township, where trust, intimacy, and
cooperation are prized. But the ideal of the individual in the community is
constantly threatened by a market that seeks mobility of labour and capital.
We extol the virtues of self-discipline, hard-work, patience and personal
responsibility, but market capitalism requires the citizen to be a consumer
first, to buy now, pay later and enjoy himself. Altruism is not encouraged in a
culture of acquisitive individualism.
There is a great yearning in the country to provide our national life and
institutions with a larger moral dimension. The success of the movie Forrest
Gump lies in its appeal to the decency of Americans. Redemption has to
begin with television and education. Children spend more time before the TV
set than they do at school. Society must find some way for television to have
a higher purpose than making money. Consistent with or nation’s
commitment to freedom of the press, the president should establish a national
commission to review the impact of television and suggest how it might play
a more constructive role in our society. Education is an economic imperative
since business requires greater skills and sophistication from its employees.
But it is also a moral imperative. Everyone who could benefit should have
the opportunity not just for learning skills but for learning how to find
sustenance in knowledge.
The nation’s hunger for a public commitment to social and moral
betterment is not a simple nostalgia for the greater simplicities of yesteryear;
the clock cannot be put back, it is a profound and anxious desire to arrest
decay. But if the dysfunctional trends continue, that anxiety will turn to fear,

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