You're right. It all starts out so innocently with doting parents and grandparents showering the kids with what they never had, all with very good intention to make their children happier than they were when they were child. Until one child gets a craving and starts to grow beyond his needs, eventually taking over his psyche, stealing from others and hoarding to satisfy his need more, more… more. Someone else ends up with less. It is a disease infesting most Americans.

Have you seen the commercial by AT&T's U-Verse? Some reporter is talking to a focus group of children and asking questions about what they want by way of cable. One little girl gets excited and says she wants, “More, more, more,… More! The report concludes that, “More is better.” I'm sure that everyone buys it.

Ron

PS. My friend's mother found out that her son was smoking. When he came home from high school, she sat him on the front step and made him smoke an entire pack of cigarettes in one sitting. Needless to say, he threw up. He never smoked again.

'adolescent hormonal voracity' - 'long ago the child giggled' - 'gluttony and greed remained' - wonderfully horrible descriptions of the monster who walks among us, perhaps is us. Leaves a shiver, and a bit more resolve. Many thanks. Jan

yes the enemy is there but do we see it
budd