Have you found yourself ever sitting there and wondering what it is exactly we teach our next of kin through our journals that we leave for them? I know I have. I have many journals that are bound and left on a shelf that was custom made for them, and I am more than sure there are plenty of others who do as well.

When do we decide that maybe some of them should be burned in the nearest fire? I mean come on, there are some lessons that need not be repeated. Some for instance have been up and mentioned on various street corners, friends over family. This concept needs to be burned. Anyone carrying journals with this concept need to toss them out.

We see this attitude so frequently that it almost seems the norm. Why do I think this is wrong? We're supposed to want to ensure the safety of our families. They give us a home, and a sense of something to work towards. Whether its a new family that is starting out and needing to work towards building their forts, to older families working together to create a home. An atmosphere where foreigners can learn our way. So why are we teaching them that the people that have their backs are the people you should turn on?

I get it, we all make friends and then our kins make friends with their kin, but we all choose our families for various reasons. It's this choice that is the most epic one you will make because more often then not its blood in and blood out.

We see so many that think they should be handed positions based on their line. While this happens, I don't think it should be expected. I do not agree with that is for sure but its more obnoxious when you see people expecting hand outs. I am sorry dear, but unless you put the effort in, you aren't any better than the newest Sally to our shores.

I am sure there are many other things from journals that could be thrown out. Such as people shouldn't have voices that oppose the leaders of our world. I see this as being oppressive and I doubt anyone wishes to go back to that. Why shouldn't you be allowed to speak up? If you can do it respectfully, then there should be nothing wrong with it.

We really should be careful on the things we pass down to in our written journals, because while it may work for one reign the next one may be very different. If one reign lacks standards, maybe the next will raise them to better heights. I like to think we are reaching for better heights in a community that could really use it. Selfishness has no place when you are a part of a family, regardless of whatever family you have chosen to join.

In some regards I can see what you are saying. The thing is, I would rather teach my daughter not to throw a fit in the streets when my death transpires regardless of anything. So I do think we do need to teach our kin a great majority of things.
Not even just for ourselves but those innocent eyes you mentioned. If they do follow half the traits that I have seen thrown around we could hardly say "Oh well" since we are in a position to be people they may look up to or imitate. Would you really want a generation learning to demand that they be given special treatment? Or having fits among the streets? Or even just learning that you should betray family for your friends?

It can be argued that if you cannot teach your own kin these things, then you cannot teach anyone else them since they will do what you do.

We see so many that think they should be handed positions based on their line.

This to me is important, why should people expect high positions just because their fathers or mothers did? Every one should earn their position based on self merit not performance of ancestors! 

The wildly-bearded old country priest Nganga, the heretic, Methuselah of Midtown, opened his mouth to say a few words of his own, "Does cronyism deserve no thought in a business where we live and die by the strength of our alliances? In an ideal world, merit would presuppose any other stipulation but when our lives can end in an instant, can and should it override the bond of trust? Power is fleeting, and it is in the best interest of those who have it to consolidate it in whatever manner possible. Can those leaders then tame an overlooked core of high-ranking family members, disgruntled by a system that engenders stagnation and resentment? The ruler of a perfect meritocracy would have as many enemies as any other simply because there aren't enough important positions going around for the amount of people who want them. Power is what you make of it and there is no evil in maintaining it, especially in a business like ours in which our violent social contract is widely understood."

Progress and time - inextricably intertwined. Linked together. Maybe not so noticeable in a days span really. But the years fly by. They should be roaring. Like hurricanes. How could we have not marked the passing? It quietly crept by. A stealthy magpie pecking holes out of the trail leaving nothing to trace. I reckon that's why change seems to happen overnight but progress is a long wait on a train that don't never come.

I agree with you in questioning what we choose to teach and pass down. Who knows what the future holds really. It wasn't that long ago that selling drugs was seen as lowly and unethical. Then the money started rolling in, right. Once taboo, now business as usual. What do we teach? The old ways that served us well or let new trails be blazed and the topography changed? Then it begs the question what is progress to you as an individual? Do you see it as change in toto, or the adaptation and evolution of what is familiar in a positive way such that it continues to serve as it was - only better?

Being an illiterate and uneducated man I keep no journals myself, couldn't if I wanted to. I suppose the effort could be made to throw money at an amanuensis but I believe it would prove to be a burden. Somedays I can't even stand my own company let alone spend time with someone more familiar with a pencil than a Henry rifle. If further pressed to pass on anything to some Rockwellian scion I guess I would caution them to shoot straight, and to keep their powder dry. Not much more than that. If my advice though well-intentioned turned out to be a stumbling block it would be an error in judgement on my part.