Journal 16
We’ve become such a narcissistic, “me-first” society that common courtesies have gone right out the door – with a moral fiber
that’s barely a thread. And while I’m hardly a religious zealot, I do think a large part of the problem is the secularization of our
culture at the hands of the allegedly tolerant and compassionate “progressives.” We’ve taken God out of our schools and poke
fun at religion; we devalue human life by condoning abortion and branding anyone who stands up for the unborn a woman-
hating Neanderthal. Two-parent households are considered an anachronism; a woman who stays home with the kids instead
of getting a job and relegating child rearing to day care is deemed lazy. We all but legalize a drug, marijuana, that takes away
ambition and drive, and we attack anyone who’s successful and wealthy – regardless of how hard they work, or how many
sacrifices they’ve made in life to get where they’re at. Government has become not an enabler of the private sector, but it’s a
misguided Robin Hood, at the expense of personal responsibility – and personal values.
                                                                                   ---Stephen Arnold

Stephen Arnold claims that the way our society has been organized or is organized right now is that in a way where we looked down upon those who are achieving greatness while we parise what promotes negativity. It's hypocritical in this case because whats being socially constructed as positive is well indeed something negative. What i belive he is trying to articulate, is that we are too focused on one thing that we gorget about the rest and somehow the thing thats cauing the problem gets turned into our hero. Here, he argues that,when he states  that our gouvernement has become a robin hood. I agree with Arnold to the extent that our attention is focused on the wrong aspects and that our solutions aren't solutions. This is clearly displayed in oir public schools systems and curriculums. We are taught groing up that being vreative is something that we should all aim for. But in our schools that creativity is squashed, it is limited. We are tested in ways that prove they dont measure intelligence correctly, but we lack the way to measure each students intelligence correctly. With that empty gap, systems impose their standards on the students and anyone who falls below thise standards isnt "proficient " .