Two most brief lecturettes today as senior years muse on values and virtues lost, providing origins and causes for our socio-national decline.
Generations past, perhaps through love understanding, religion and/or fear, appreciated and demonstrated respect. Frankly Speaking, upon considerable reflection, I have concluded that the British colonial influence, inclusive of slavery and indentureship, imbued much older generations with the understanding, sometimes dire need for that behaviour deemed as respect. Reasons were/are obvious. Of course, other cultures which arrived here had their own value-systems in which the concept of respect had to be present.
I am submitting that this issue of respect – actually the absolute lack of it – is one of the bases of the
