In yesterday's post, we imagined that our country is cranky because we increasingly blast each other, spend more than we take in, and long ago invited out our founding moral compass (God).
New research bears this out.
The Legatum Institute has, for six years, measured over 140 countries on a prosperity index. For the first time, the United States has fallen out of the top 10 in their annual ranking of the World's Happiest Countries.
You can explore the overall report at www.prosperity.com.
The countries are measured in eight categories, each with their own ranking. Most disturbing, perhaps, is the comment that accompanies our ranking of 12th in the Entrepreneurship and Opportunity category "due to a decline in citizens' perception that working hard gets you ahead."
A decline in our perception that working hard gets us ahead.
Does that mean an entire generation of very observant children are drawing that conclusion?
What does their adulthood look like?
Are there other countries that have the same defeatist attitude? Are they a mirror of our future?
God, we redouble yesterday's plea: please return to our country with Your radical grace and serious intent. I, for one, ask You to take over. I know others plead the same.
