PATP

PATP, just what our middle school children need, another acronym, representing a ‘positive action ticket program’ as described by a principal of a local school. Bribery will apparently get pupils somewhere when hard work and study habits can’t. Radio talk show host, Glenn Beck, confirmed the status of America this morning by presenting us with a choice. Do we purchase a small or a large handbasket with which to carry our country into Hell? That’s where we’re going. Last night’s ‘useless’ debate proved that our two candidates would reach out to both the left and right hand of government for a dole. No leader, no visionary emerged. No Democrat or Republican (forget conservative) spoke, rather a socialist and a wanna-be-loved compassionate politician. The childish PATP program simply reinforces the present condition of our society. Incentive comes not from within our youth and our leaders but from externalities.

We have arrived at a state in which the mind starves while the body is overfed. Physical and mental laziness (born out of the spoiled nature of our culture) contributes to the present obesity epidemic. Food replaces boredom and absence of intellectual pursuits. At-home food preparation might be a first step in alleviating national ADD. What good is a juvenile or adult PATP program to rescue that lost world above our human shoulders which evolution took million so years to develop and mere decades to vacate?