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Did you realize that 90% of the pictures on the internet have either on the left or the right hand side a part of the portraied person's arm?

... they are all self-portraits! ... sad humanity! We are now taking pictures with digital cameras of ourselves, just to see if one of the millions we take is OK in order to publish it on the Web. Most of the people don't even care about the background. Like the girl I've watched today, crossing the bridge infront of our house. There she was, holding her arm to the sky, something in her hand, pointing at her. Smile, flashlight. I have seen the background before she even thought about it! She may have had a pretty face (it was too far away for me to see it), but it was no use! The background was a street with loads of cars parked ... really not nice to look at. ... and if there was anybody walking on the street, it may have been someone alone walking his dog.

... next sad part of our mankind! 

We don't take any children to the playgrounds anymore! ... playgounds have turned into massive dog crapyards. The few children some of us (in our Western "culture") still have can not be taken there anyway, as it really stinks up to the skies, and secondly we over-protect the few kids we have in a way that is completely against nature! ... they are all bound to be small Michael Jacksons, as it seems to me. I have never seen as many allergic people as I have seen in the last couple of years. When I was a child allergies were rare, today almost everybody is allergic against something. I don't know the reason behind this phenomenon, I just see that it is like that. I have been told it could be due to the rinse we add to our clothes when washing them. As we want our clothes to be smooth when we wear them. I don't really know what the problem with rough clothes is, but as we want our children to be as cozy as possible, we overhear all criticism and wash our clothes smoothly, and when they reach the age of 10 or 12, there will be a surprise waiting for all of us: what will me dear, beloved child be allergic to? ... I think deep down below we want our children to be sick and ill, so we can pamper them even more while we can, as soon they will reach the age of wanting to watch tv, and then they are lost for us anyway, as we can not influence them in what they watch, beause they won't let us tell them what is right or what is wrong.

Never there has been so much literature around about how important it is to spend some quality time with our children, so they can become sound and healthy adults some day, when they reach the age.

Never there has been so much literature around about how harmful "eternal idiot tubes" are (be it tv or computers). But what do we do, for the sake of a little bit of relaxation in our lives, we turn on the tv or buy a couple of children's games so "they can learn how to use a computer".  They don't learn anything with all that silly Barbie and Polly Pocket or Shin Chan and Pokemon stupidity. All we lead them to is egosim and intolerance. Why, first of all because we don't know in which direction they evolve as we can not be asked to spend time with them and rather hand them over to "professionals", or the grandparents or even a nanny (of whom we usually don't know the least) ... and then one day we wonder why they don't obey us. Can our western "civilization" be that decadent already (and again!) that we just think about ourselves and can not be bothered to think about the flesh of our flesh we have planted onto this terreneal surface? Obviously not, we need to fulfill our personal plans and expectations, and once we have achieved this auto-fulfilling we can start thinking about our children! ... so first is always us ourselves! .. that's why we are always taking first plane pictures of ourselves and don't give the least for the background! 

This is the way our superficial world works. And it would be so easy to change, if we could only stick to our Western principles of "loving our neighbours" and the  whole "christian story", we could have a much better world with educated, loving children. 

Once we start thinking about them it's too late. They have spent their first six years in an environment of lack of attention, and childen do need attention, but not in the material way we are giving it to them. They need attention in an affectionate way. Why is it so hard to step down from our high egosit horse, just taking pictures of ourselves, why can we not ask someone passing by to take this  picture of us? ... but even if you offer to someone to take the picture, people refuse it! They prefer to see their own arm to remembering the situation when this unknown person came by and took this nice picture with a nice background.