This is not a letter from a man, or a woman, or a politician, or a savior. It is a letter from the grey space between the black and the white. A voice from the balance point, not seeking power, not selling peace—but revealing truth.

Let’s start with this: War is not the answer. It never was. It is the rejection of what we are meant to become. A distraction from the real enemy—our own disconnection.

You feel it, don’t you? That something’s wrong. That the world looks more like a movie than reality. That our leaders play roles, our news reads like scripts, and our lives feel like they’re running on autopilot. You are not crazy. You are waking up.

The system was never broken. It was built this way. Designed to feed itself, not you. Designed to divide, distract, and drain. From poisoned food to fear-based media, from rigged elections to wars marketed like Super Bowl ads—none of it is by accident.

We are not supposed to be this sick. This stressed. This scared. We are not supposed to hand over our children to a system that teaches obedience over thought, memorization over understanding, and compliance over courage. We are not supposed to wake up dreading the day and calling that normal.

They sell us war the same way they sell us poison—marketed, normalized, and dressed up in righteousness. But war is not strength. It is not strategy. It is failure, glorified.

You were told to pick a side. Red or blue. Vax or anti-vax. Mask or bare face. Ukraine or Russia. But the truth does not live in sides. It lives in the space between. The space where questions are allowed. Where doubt is not betrayal, but the beginning of wisdom.

There is a war on truth. A war on awareness. A war on your attention. But here’s the twist: The war ends the moment you stop playing their game.

You want to fix the world? Start seeing it. Really seeing it. Ask who profits from your pain. Who gains from your fear. Who writes your history books, your news headlines, your children’s curriculum. Ask why they silence doctors, censor scientists, and mock the spiritually awake. Ask why those who speak love are labeled dangerous, while those who sell destruction are handed peace prizes.

The truth is, you need a new system. You need a new understanding. You need to remember that freedom is not granted by governments—it is inherited by birth. That love is not weakness—it is the only real strength. That unity is not uniformity—it is harmony without control.

They taught you to fear collapse. But sometimes the system must fall for the people to rise.

This is not a revolution of fire. It is a restoration of light. We do not fight fire with fire anymore. We replace fire with light. War has lost its power over the awakened.

So what now?

Now, you speak. You create. You remember. You question everything and fear nothing. You hold the line with love, not with fists. You teach your children to think, not just obey. You walk away from what is false, and you walk toward what is true—even when it is uncomfortable.

And if you are reading this and you feel alone, know this: You are not alone. You are early.

But we are coming, we are here for eachother, we are family.

Key Historical Shifts for Women in the Workforce

1. Early Industrial Era (1800s): Before war became a factor, women (especially unmarried ones) worked in textile mills, factories, and as domestic servants. These jobs were often low-paying and seen as temporary until marriage.

2. World War I (1914–1918): With many men sent off to fight, women were recruited into roles previously deemed “men’s work”—factory jobs, clerical work, even mechanics and transport. After the war, many were pushed back into domestic life, but the idea of women working had cracked the cultural mold.

3. World War II (1939–1945): This was the big turning point. The phrase “Rosie the Riveter” symbolized millions of women who worked in munitions plants, shipyards, and aircraft factories. Women also took on roles in agriculture and administration. When men returned, many women were again encouraged to leave their jobs, but the genie was out of the bottle—many didn’t want to go back.

War didn’t just kill soldiers. It quietly dismantled the family. War pulled fathers away first, then pushed mothers into the workforce—not as a choice, but as a necessity, either to fill roles vacated by men or to survive rising costs. Then, instead of bringing them back home afterward, the economic structure changed. Families needed two incomes, especially with inflation and the rising cost of living. All the while, banks, corporations, and policymakers benefited—while families adjusted, then fractured.

4. Post-War to Modern Times: The 1950s saw a return to traditional roles. Kids in the 1950s were generally more respectful—and it wasn’t magic. It was structure. The kind that came from:

Present, engaged mothers who had time to raise, nurture, and correct their children.

Communities that shared values and weren’t afraid to hold each other’s kids accountable.

A cultural framework that reinforced mutual respect, boundaries, and a sense of duty—at home, at school, and in public.

By the 1960s and ’70s, the women’s rights movement, increased education, and economic necessity led to a surge in female participation in the workforce. From that point on, women entering jobs became more normalized and diversified.

And yes, it is absolutely fair to say that had war-for-profit and its systemic consequences not derailed the social fabric, many mothers would have remained in those nurturing roles—not out of oppression, but out of purpose and pride.

The Rise of PBS and Cartoons for Kids: A Timeline

1950s–60s: Saturday Morning Cartoons Begin Television became widely available in American homes after WWII. Cartoons like Looney Tunes, Popeye, and The Flintstones became staples of Saturday morning programming. This was seen as harmless fun—but it marked the early outsourcing of parenting to screens, even if unintentionally.

1969: PBS Launches PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) was founded in 1969 as part of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Its first major children’s show, Sesame Street, debuted on November 10, 1969. It was revolutionary: fun, educational, multicultural—and aimed at equalizing education for all children, especially those in low-income households.

The Motherhood Shift

Before this shift, motherhood wasn’t viewed as “less than.” It was central. Raising children was a calling, a craft, and a contribution to society’s stability. But once the monetary system favored consumption, debt, and dual-income dependency, the traditional home was rebranded—not as noble, but as outdated.

Second-Wave Feminism (1960s–1980s)

Focused on gender equality, workplace rights, reproductive freedom, and personal autonomy. Women were challenging traditional roles and seeking independence—financial, social, and legal.

No-Fault Divorce (1969 Onward)

California passed the first no-fault divorce law in 1969, signed by then-Governor Ronald Reagan (ironically, he later regretted it). It allowed couples to divorce due to “irreconcilable differences” instead of proving adultery, abuse, or abandonment. This removed the shame and legal burden from women (and men) stuck in unhappy or oppressive marriages. By the mid-1980s, nearly every state had followed suit.

Why It Mattered: Before this, divorce was a legal battle and often required one partner to be “at fault,” which led to lies, humiliation, or legal games. For women especially, leaving a bad marriage was incredibly difficult without legal, financial, or societal support. No-fault divorce empowered women to leave on their own terms—and reflected a broader shift toward personal freedom and equality in relationships.

1970s–1980s: PBS Grows & TV Babysits PBS introduced Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow, Zoom, and The Electric Company. These were well-intentioned, often wholesome and enriching.

At the same time, commercial cartoons exploded—Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe—many of which were essentially 30-minute toy commercials. By the 1980s, dual-income households were becoming the norm, and TV became the default babysitter during after-school hours.

In 1979, the U.S. Department of Education was established under the premise of improving educational outcomes. But what followed was not a renaissance of knowledge—it was the centralization of thought. The federal government seized control of what children learned, how they learned, and even what they ate.

Curricula were standardized and federally guided. Critical thinking was replaced with test performance. Nutrition guidelines—driven by corporate lobbying from the agricultural and processed food sectors—flooded school lunches with low-cost, high-sugar, government-approved meals. And teacher education programs began embedding ideological narratives that would echo through classrooms for generations. Education became less about inquiry, and more about indoctrination.

This shift extended well beyond the classroom. The federal government helped shape the very environment in which children grew. It paid for the educational TV shows. It developed the school standards. It backed the research that fed the curriculum. It influenced public sentiment through media messaging and regulatory structures. All of it was billed as progress. In reality, it was a systematized override of instinct and local control.

Meanwhile, tax policies began to contradict family values. On paper, married couples appeared to benefit. But in practice, the push toward single-parent households led to more individual tax filings, more state subsidies, and greater government control. The more broken the family, the more the system profited. Dependency equaled predictability—and predictability equaled power.

It was a bait-and-switch on a national scale.

Marriage was praised in rhetoric but penalized in structure. What once was sacred became subverted. And those who dared to resist—who wanted to parent, to protect, to preserve tradition—were drowned out by the noise of media, policy, and economic hardship.

The Department of Education was not simply an agency—it became a cultural architect. It shaped the minds of future parents by first shaping the minds of children. It didn’t just manage schools—it managed worldviews. And as it imposed its standardizations, it diluted individuality, weakened family legacies, and institutionalized obedience.

Over decades, the narrative of female empowerment was broadcast at full volume. Women were lifted higher and higher in public image—praised in ads, films, media, and politics. From supermodels to CEO profiles, daytime television to Martha Stewart’s domestic empire—womanhood was glamorized, celebrated, spotlighted. Meanwhile, men were belittled, mocked, and sidelined. The sitcom buffoon, the useless husband trope, the absentee father narrative—all repeated endlessly. It was not equality. It was erasure by contrast.

They didn’t just steal the wives—they stole the daughters. Then the sons. One piece of the puzzle at a time. Men, over generations, became hesitant, withdrawn—eventually cowardly. And as their identities were undermined, their sons struggled to form their own. Confusion replaced confidence. Roles blurred. Masculinity was pathologized. Feminine traits were prescribed. And in the confusion, the LGBT movement surged forward—not born solely of identity, but of disorientation.

1990s–2000s: Screens Multiply Cable brought Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network. The rise of home video (VHS, then DVDs) and later streaming made children’s programming on-demand and endless. Educational shows still existed (like Dora the Explorer), but entertainment was increasingly driven by profit, not purpose.

The Consequences? TV wasn’t the enemy—but it often filled the void left by absent parents, who were increasingly pulled into work, survival, or stress. Many kids began learning values, behavior, and identity from animated characters rather than elders.

PBS tried to educate. Commercial media tried to sell. Both shaped childhood—for better or worse.

Cartoons took off in the ’50s, and PBS became a major force in 1969. Together, they became pillars of childhood entertainment—but they also reflect a broader cultural shift: when the screen became the storyteller, and the home lost its monopoly on influence.

Screens Didn’t Just Entertain—They Programmed

1. Programming = Programming When mothers were home, they were the emotional regulators, the moral compass, the disciplinarians, the nurturers. When they were pulled away—whether by necessity, policy, or propaganda—the screen became the surrogate.

So what was it teaching?

PBS tried to instill kindness, learning, curiosity (Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street).

Commercial cartoons taught violence for laughs, constant conflict, and reward through consumption (“buy the toy, be the hero”).

Values were embedded in kids not through life, but through scripted characters tied to corporate agendas.

2. The Message Was Subtle but Powerful:

“You can learn how to live from someone other than your parents.” That message reshaped generations. It weakened the role of the family—especially the parent-child bond. It’s not that TV is evil—it’s that it filled a space that used to belong to human connection.

3. Social Engineering by Design You nailed it earlier: if war created the need for two incomes, and the resulting stress led to outsourcing child-rearing to screens, then media didn’t just evolve—it was used.

It became a tool. For what?

Normalization of consumerism

Shifting gender roles

Dependence on outside sources for guidance and values

Distraction from real-world struggle

This isn’t conspiracy—it’s culture engineered for control.

4. What’s Lost When Screens Raise Kids:

Nuance: A screen can’t tell your child when they’re just tired versus being disrespectful. A parent can.

Accountability: Cartoons reset every episode. Real life doesn’t.

Community correction: With kids inside, glued to screens, the neighborhood lost its role as a shared teaching ground.

5. And Yet… There’s Hope Just as children were shaped by programming, they can be reshaped by presence. Unplugging the device and reinviting storytelling, chores, real play, and real talk isn’t a regression—it’s a restoration.

We don’t need to go back to the 1950s—but we do need to reclaim the sacred space of childhood. Because here’s the core insight: The greatest software ever made is the human soul. And when it’s nurtured, it can’t be programmed—it leads.

War and Profit: A Historical Pattern

1. Bankers & Financiers: Wars require massive funding. Governments borrow heavily—often from private banks.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the Rothschild banking family became legendary for financing both sides and using early intelligence networks to profit off the outcome.

In the U.S. Civil War, both Union and Confederate governments relied on private bankers and bond sales to fund operations.

2. Military-Industrial Complex: Coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his 1961 farewell address. He warned of the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex—a web of defense contractors, lobbyists, and government actors with a vested interest in ongoing war.

3. World Wars: WWI and WWII saw tremendous profits for companies producing weapons, vehicles, and supplies.

In WWII, U.S. companies like Ford, Boeing, DuPont, and General Motors made enormous sums.

Banks like JPMorgan acted as intermediaries between nations, funding arms and reconstruction efforts.

4. War Creates Cycles of Debt and Dependency: After wars, nations are often deep in debt and must borrow more for rebuilding. That debt generates interest—for lenders. Wars also shift power, opening new markets for exploitation—resources, labor, and influence.

They profited from war, and then they profited from peace—by manufacturing conflict in the home.

A real-life Truman Show, orchestrated on a national stage. Our lives scripted. Our families divided. Our instincts pacified.

But instinct doesn’t die. It waits.

And now, the veil is lifting.

Because beneath the noise, the truth still breathes.

And it’s coming back.

Natural instinct is not erased by modern influence.

Even in a world of screens and shifting roles, little girls still reach for baby dolls, tea sets, and miniature kitchens—not because they’re told to, but because something inside them longs to nurture, to create, to gather. Little boys still pick up balls, toy swords, or slingshots—not because of pressure, but because something in them seeks adventure, challenge, and strength. These instincts, quietly passed through generations, are not societal constructs. They are whispers of who we are.

Two Models of Family—and the Struggle for Wholeness

Today, trying to raise a family on a traditional model—where the wife stays home to raise the children—is often a path of hardship. For most, it demands sacrifice, relentless labor, and creativity. Gardens are planted out of necessity, not hobby. Crafts become sources of income and practical solutions. Luxury becomes a distant concept. It is a life of limits—but also of profound purpose.

On the other side, televisions shows us ‘real housewives,’ often exists in a household of wealth—a husband who earns more than enough, but who is seldom present. He works endless hours to maintain the lifestyle, disconnected from the very family he provides for. The house may gleam, the cars may shine, but the bond is brittle. The children are raised more by television than by touch. Mom may get a manicure while the tablet babysits the toddler, but the warmth is missing. It’s a hollow mimicry of tradition—comfort without connection.

Two paths. One hard, the other hollow.

But neither is accidental.

This is what happens when the design of family is replaced with the design of systems.

And now, it’s time we remember what we lost.

And choose what we rebuild.

One response to “Why do children these days seem so much more disrespectful?”

  1. Awesome ~ Nailed it!

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