A Stuffed Shirt

Now that's not quite the way we educate Our Youngsters We have another idea for them The traditional notion Of A mature adult Is A person Who Behaves As he ought to behave Who behaves as the society has always Asked him to behave Grandpa behaved this way So did great grandpa And every kid who didn't was eaten So we all behaved this way That is to say The Adult Is the one who accepts And represents The order Of the society Without question This you get In all traditional Societies Now you know what we call a person Who behaves that way A stuffed shirt A stuffed shirt A person Who Behaves As he ought to behave He has never built Anything Particular out of himself He has simply Done As told He's sure Of what's right Of what's wrong And That's that Now we can't have this anymore We don't want it Our notion In our society Today Of an adult Mind Is a mind That accepts Responsibility For its own actions That judges In terms of Value Not saying "Oh, I want this because I like it" But in terms of An ordered Considered Value scale The individual is to judge The individual is to criticize And the individual is to represent With courage And loyalty His judgments A stuffed shirt A stuffed shirt A person Who Behaves As he ought to behave Now this asks a lot of the society itself That wasn't asked before This also tends to shatter The idea Of authority Now that idea was formally Validated by say It came from God The Lord of the Universe Ordered things this way For the society For the society The society The society