A troubled child once asked her mother, "Mom, teach me how to think."
The mother responded to her baby girl with reassurance, "You already know. Simply be honest when you speak, and pay close attention to someone you trust." The child chose her older sister who had been her confidant and playmate for the first ten years of her life. This past week, Charlie has justified the mother's faith -- by following what she has called "Charlie's Angels" (i.e. the better angels of our nature).
Sadly, these youngest two of four children had been raised in a society where violence and abuse is common among parents -- a "schizoid society" according to Rollo May. The mother in this case had miraculously escaped the violence that had divided so many of her peers, but our society, hooked on money and drugs, imposed blame in order to destroy her family anyway.
How? Fostering denial and allowing corporations and conglomerates to wrangle a "free lunch" at the expense of taxpayers, have made the fate of this family seem certain. The mother has a passion for reading and the library that fits Dave's description. The daughters have inherited IT in a different form -- hard work and television. Their future does not depend on public education or the funding of government.
