Over the past weekend, Metro Atlanta saw a crime spree unlike any I can remember.  There were hostages, drive by shootings, stabbings of pregnant women, gang violence at shopping malls, and perhaps worst of all a man shot in the middle of the morning while out jogging, among many others.

Someone I personally know was one of the near victims of the drive-by shooting, a family man and a great person.  This stuff will hit home to every one of us if we don't right the sinking ship and fast. 

Crime has always been a problem, since the 1960s, but in recent decades it had been somewhat been under control in certain parts of town.  Now the violence, dysfunction, and most importantly, nihilism, seems to be spreading everywhere. 

Occasionally, I turn on the news to see what kind of "narrative" I'm going to get, and to their credit they do report the headlines, usually, and especially if they can somehow weave in a narrative of race, sex, or victimhood into the headline.

But what stands out when you engage with media in the USA is how utterly out of touch they are with the real situation on the ground, and this applies to "liberal" and "conservative" media both.  There's a lot of yelling and finger pointing, but hardly any truth-telling about what has happened in the USA over my lifetime, and the preceding decade of the 1960s.  I always had the feeling my whole life something wasn't quite right, but I was too naive and too part of the system to realize I was participating as a "willing victim" in a complete societal collapse centered around family life.

And all of this comes back to raising children, because that's how children become healthy functioning adults- through stable families.  

Go back to something I blogged about a few weeks ago, the new book about Boomers.  I'm not picking on them, but that one stat keeps sticking out.  From my blog:

A staggering statistic: The percentage of children living with both biological parents by the time the mother is 40, among working-class families was 95% in 1960, now it's 30%

To follow up with that I wanted to share an article I found that lays out in specific details why things have happened the way they have .  I'm trying not to be explicitly political about this, because this is more about telling the truth than politics. 

​You need to register on Chronicles to read the article, but it goes back all the way through the history of divorce law changes to detail exactly what has happened to spur the collapse we're undergoing. 

THE SEXUAL LEFT, THE WELFARE STATE, AND THE DIVORCE REVOLUTION: HOW AMERICA WENT COMMUNIST by Stephen Baskerville 

https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/the-sexual-left--the-welfare-state--and-the-divorce-revolution_1/

One crucial key comes to us in an easy to remember format: SAID

Remember SAID because it could make a huge difference in your training.  

SAID
 
The SAID principle is very similar to the specificity principle, only it’s even more specific.  
 
SAID stands for: Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand
 
SAID is more highly defined specificity.  Specificity simply means training in a unique way which pertains to the goal.  SAID takes a look closer and identifies exactly what we want to happen to us as we train, by linking up the demand or the training stimulus with the adaptations which occur as a result.   
 
It looks like this:
 
Specific Adaptation – Changes that come about as a result of training. 
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Imposed Demand – The training stimulus you give yourself. 
 
SAID is a more detailed approach to training, a more scientific look at what’s going on.  For example there are 3 main types of exercise when it comes to physiology, though they do overlap. One, is strength and power training like lifting weights.  Two, is anaerobic or interval training like circuit training.  And three is aerobic exercise like walking or running for long periods.  With each different type of “imposed demand” we get “specific adaptations.”
 
The SAID, the specific adaption to imposed demand, for each is different.  With the first type, which normally only lasts 10-30 seconds we lift or throw something with strength and power. With the second type, anaerobic training, we produce an all-out effort in something like a 400m Sprint and then recover.  Anaerobic training usually lasts 30 seconds to 3 minutes.  Aerobic exercise is slower and longer, usually 20-60 minutes.  This is a simplification of something which can get complicated but that’s the basics.
 
The reason we need the SAID principle is simple.  The specificity principles guides us to train towards our goal, by picking a training method that applies to it.  SAID reminds us that we have to keep imposing demands.  This is a crucial distinction.