I recently watched a television program about inner city women who are in the prison system for violent crimes from burglary, robbery, assault, strong-arm robbery, murder and the entire gamut. They were interviewed to a fair length about why they are in prison. The prevailing answer was basically that in recent decades many new prisons have been built across the nation and their men who went to prison were no longer being paroled early because there was now ample space to keep them incarcerated for the full duration of their terms. They went on to say that with their men in prison it was up to them women to fill the void vacated by the men.
If your reaction to this is anything like mine you must now be saying, “Say what?!?” So this population or culture apparently views this situation as their means of making a living and much as whenever the “man of the house” becomes incapacitated and can’t work then the “woman of the house” must step up and play the role of bread winner or titular head of household. What does this say about inner city families? It clearly demonstrates that they have mutated to the point that crime is viewed and accepted as a career choice. It isn’t a very far projection to also predict that as in traditional family units if the father is in the skilled trades or law enforcement or firefighting or assembly line worker or whatever else, their children oft times follow the same career path, then it necessarily follows that such dysfunctional families will and are seeing their children following the same career path. As in full effect this has created a sub-culture of crime.
While it is bad enough for generation after generation to remain mired in this quagmire, it is abominable and grotesque for these denizens to come to view this way of life as normal. And this is exactly what appears to be the case. I have no answer or even a suggestion as how to pursue a solution to this problem but it does prove once more that society and civilization have become so bizarre that anyone who remembers what it was like decades ago will feel utterly at a loss to make sense of it all let alone feel any sense of hopefulness that things will improve. Instead, if you refer back to my earlier writings on this, I predicted that there may come a time when two separate and clearly defined cultures of those with the access to information and the ability to take advantage of its benefits and those who remain in a societal backwash will diverge. The end result will inevitably become one in which the upwardly mobile class will grow to see the pariah class as a nuisance and begin to make plans to deal with it in a much more draconian manner. This circumstance may be the beginnings of just such an evolution.