"The SIGNS of a Decaying Culture"

Before I start this blog, let me say that I'm a high school dropout and I make plenty of mistakes with things I write...however, I do THINK about what I put out there and I do CARE to try to do my best.  This "Chetitorial" is about those who DON'T think and DON'T care...not about those who are human and make mistakes like we all do.  Okay, having said that....I live in a set of SEVEN senior citizen Villages ("55 and Over."). When I moved here six years ago, I was glad to get into a community where the residents all grew up in "my" generation...where people were (I thought) a little more moral, a little SMARTER, and a little less lazy than most kids are today. However, I'm learning that our entire CULTURE is decaying, older folks and young...you might say I'm seeing the SIGNS of it all over.

The sign BELOW is a prime example of what I'm talking about (I took this photo last week, here in the Villages.) How do you have a Cinco de Mayo, "May the 5th," celebration on May 18th??  Isn't that as insulting as celebrating July 4th on July 21st would be to ME, as an AMERICAN??  I just can't believe that they'd put this sign up for the second year in a row, mind you, but because it wasn't in MY Village I didn't complain to the powers-that-be about it.  (Maybe I should have, because THIS week the sign ABOVE, at the top of this blog, was put outside the Clubhouse of MY Village!!)

In case you didn't have your morning coffee yet, that sign that should read "QuartERly Budget Meeting."  And almost as if to outdo the dumbness of the first sign, THAT message was messed up on BOTH sides, not just one. So instead of competing for Excellence, it's like my Village is doubling down and striving for a Mediocrity Medal or something. This time, because it IS my Village I called to alert the people in charge but the woman on the phone seemed to think it was much ado about nothing, frankly.  (And to those who may say "The signmaker just ran out of space, that's why he left out the ER," I've been doing outdoor signs for my church three years now.  Believe me, it all could have fit properly with a little reworking IF the person CARED enough to make it fit!! We need to stop making excuses for laziness and stupidity, rather than judging those who point out the problems and falsely accusing them of being judgmental!!)

In a society where everyone thinks there are no more absolutes (except, of course, as the late John Reisinger said, It IS absolute that there are no more absolutes), I guess it really doesn't MATTER if we spell "Quarterly" wrong or celebrate Cinco de Mayo on the wrong day...it's the INTENT that counts, right??  And the issues present on these signs are replicated constantly in our fading culture, day in and day out.  How many times do we get e-mails or texts with words spelled incorrectly, even though SpellCheck  could have easily helped prevent that?? There doesn't seem to be right and wrong anymore....unless you want to talk about what USED to be wrong is now right (and vice versa), you see.  This generation (old and young) is not faithful in the "small" things like these signs, and they're just as careless about the LARGER issues of life, sadly.  Well, for ME, I serve the true God Who has absolute standards of what is true and what is false, right and wrong, male and female, etc.......and He never changes

Let me conclude this blog as I began it, with this reminder: this "Chetitorial" was about those who DON'T think and DON'T care...not about those who are human and make mistakes like we all do. Mistakes are signs that we're human, but things like this are signs of a rapidly decaying culture..