Very well written post. I wonder if the idea of virtue is what is lost to our society? Virtue to me is that desire to self examine for the express purpose of self improvement. This to me is what the indoctrination camps of our time have beaten out of our children.

Thus to me history shows they failed every-time with the living breathing beings who had developed virtue. Thus I make it my goal to be the rock dropped into the pond that creates those ripples others see and ask that question

"What is that?"

May it be virtue for us all.