We are now in the twilight zone.

The reason for this blog is to indulge my obsessive need to express  thoughts and opinions which have been accumulating in my cerebral closet for the past sixty odd years.  Not only does it keep my head from exploding but it also spares my family and friends from having to listen to my daily diatribe against contemporary society.

The world has changed so much in the last forty years that I feel as though the earth that I inhabit today is not the same one that June Cleaver lived on but is rather an earth that exists in a parallel universe or at the very least one that is standing on it's head.

My problem is that I start every day by reading the newspaper which I am told I shouldn't do if I want to keep my blood pressure from rising.  For instance this morning's  New York Post had (what a surprise) Tiger Woods on the cover.  For the past two weeks we have seen pictures of his various mistresses, his smashed up car, his mother, his mother-in-law being rushed to the hospital, his betrayed wife, her new house in Sweden, his old house, his high school sweetheart.  What's left?
And right next to the picture of Tiger there is a picture of the infamous Ashley Dupres with an announcement that she is the paper's new sex columnist.  Who would have believed forty years ago that an ex-call girl, a woman of the street, Eliot Spitzer's former paid hooker would be giving out advice to the lovelorn in a legitimate? newspaper.  What would Ann Landers say or Dear Abby?  But standards really have changed haven't  they.  What used to be a cause of shame is now just another revenue stream.

Getting back to Tiger and his tsures.  I blame the parents.  In their haste to cash in on their talented little tyke they created a championship golfer who in appearance may look like a grown man but emotionally and psychologically is really a child.
He acted like a kid in a toy shop who could pick out any toy he wanted and as many as he wanted.  And like all children who have too much, once he got tired of playing with the toy he just threw it away.  What is surprising is that he picked out such cheap toys.

Unfortunately Tiger Woods is just one example of this harmful phenomenon in modern society where adults refuse to put away their childish things and act like grown-ups.  Theodore Dalrymple a British psychiatrist and writer who has written extensively about the disintegration of present day standards and morality particularly in Britain refers to this stunted behaviour as "the infantilisation of society."  And it comes at a great price because we now have adult children looking after real children with the result that the latter have now become society's most vulnerable and endangered species in spite  of what those crazy environmentalists are protesting about.