Because of air conditioning and a host of indoor games and electronic gadgets, the United States has produced a tribe of House People over the past sixty years.
House People are addicted to 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and their participation in the great outdoors is mostly from watching events on widescreen televisions while consuming cold beverages and eating potato chips.
House People are not necessarily lazy, but they can easily be physically unfit. They are unwilling to work hard outdoors because they do not like to sweat, and they do not want to get their hands dirty. Most of their children never know the freedom of going barefoot in the grass on a summer's day.
When the weather gets hot, House People flee to the great indoors to hug their air conditioners and to watch television, play video games, talk on telephones, and go to the shopping malls to escape the great heat. Their greatest decisions of the day is to plan what to eat and to drink---and how to stay cool. Mowing the grass and washing the family car can wait.
Over the past sixty years, many American families have never taken their children camping, or for hikes along a nature trail. Many fathers have never taken their boys fishing or hunting, or played catch with them in the back yard.
For many children, a "camp out" is sleeping on the floor at a neighbor's house to watch movies, while eating snack foods and drinking sodas. And when the sun arises, they roll up their sleeping bags and go home to spend the day in air conditioned comfort.
Getting a suntan is by going to a tanning booth in an air conditioned room, and seeing the stars is from turning to the Discovery Channel with a remote control.
Over these sixty years, millions of American children have never played baseball, softball, soccer, or even golf because of the addiction to 72 degrees Fahrenheit. The parents have believed that the weather is just too hot for their children to go outdoors and play in the dirt.
In the United States, our greatest success has produced our greatest weakness. Our prosperity has spoiled our progress, and we have become dependent on intellect rather than physical strength and endurance.
We rarely hear the sounds of children laughing and playing in the great outdoors because the parents are co-dependent on air conditioning. Working on grandpa's farm in the summer has become extinct for American children.
As the parents do, the children do likewise: as we are building the next generation.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. (Proverbs 6: 6-11)
House People are addicted to 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and their participation in the great outdoors is mostly from watching events on widescreen televisions while consuming cold beverages and eating potato chips.
House People are not necessarily lazy, but they can easily be physically unfit. They are unwilling to work hard outdoors because they do not like to sweat, and they do not want to get their hands dirty. Most of their children never know the freedom of going barefoot in the grass on a summer's day.
When the weather gets hot, House People flee to the great indoors to hug their air conditioners and to watch television, play video games, talk on telephones, and go to the shopping malls to escape the great heat. Their greatest decisions of the day is to plan what to eat and to drink---and how to stay cool. Mowing the grass and washing the family car can wait.
Over the past sixty years, many American families have never taken their children camping, or for hikes along a nature trail. Many fathers have never taken their boys fishing or hunting, or played catch with them in the back yard.
For many children, a "camp out" is sleeping on the floor at a neighbor's house to watch movies, while eating snack foods and drinking sodas. And when the sun arises, they roll up their sleeping bags and go home to spend the day in air conditioned comfort.
Getting a suntan is by going to a tanning booth in an air conditioned room, and seeing the stars is from turning to the Discovery Channel with a remote control.
Over these sixty years, millions of American children have never played baseball, softball, soccer, or even golf because of the addiction to 72 degrees Fahrenheit. The parents have believed that the weather is just too hot for their children to go outdoors and play in the dirt.
In the United States, our greatest success has produced our greatest weakness. Our prosperity has spoiled our progress, and we have become dependent on intellect rather than physical strength and endurance.
We rarely hear the sounds of children laughing and playing in the great outdoors because the parents are co-dependent on air conditioning. Working on grandpa's farm in the summer has become extinct for American children.
As the parents do, the children do likewise: as we are building the next generation.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. (Proverbs 6: 6-11)
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