The transformation of kids over time

“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term —-the generation gap.

In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest—-church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.

In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion….It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.

In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.

In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.

In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

BOOK CLUB: Sense & Sensuality by Ravi Zacharias

 So I read this awesome book over the summer, "Sense and Sensuality" by Ravi Zacharias and it was amazing. It explores a fictional conversation between novelist Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ. The main theme of the short book is pain versus pleasure and answers the question "If it feels good, why not?" Anyone who is confused about the purpose of pleasure for mankind will enjoy the book. Below are some quotes as well as some accompanying pictures from all over the internet. Enjoy!

One's own spirit and body, one's kinsmen and friends and enemies, wealth and poverty, disgrace, prosperity, good reputation, health and so on- anything, in short, that endures for a shorter than the soul does is incapable of satisfying the soul...{p.70}

In seeking pleasure, you pursued the body and lost the person. You sought the sensation and sacrificed the individual. {p.71}

Pleasure took you astray, and pain brought you back. {p.77}

Wanting someone without a commitment to that someone is always one step away from hate; you exhaust the sensual and then want your potential accuser to just be gone from your life. My laws were designed out of love for each and every person so that none would be abused. {p.55}

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place. {p.56}

Ultimately, children will be sacrificed at the altar of a wicked and perverse will. {p.57}