Originally Posted by sugarwood (Post 11395058)

I see people talking and eating.
What an idiotic thread started by a typical jackass Pelican.

Originally Posted by Esel Mann (Post 11395763)

Baz is actually in the kool memberz only club here.

Originally Posted by flatbutt (Post 11394705)

How do you define the American culture?

Originally Posted by tabs (Post 11395875)

I have said it before and will say it again..success has gone to our heads where we have become arrogant that we can have it all wihout limits or consequences. That we have arrived at the land of goodness and plenty where we dont need to listen or even acknowlege a higher force than ourselves..after all we have an endless budget..

Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11395871)

Elly was hot!

Originally Posted by Otter74 (Post 11394964)

People have been making literally exactly this complaint for thousands of years. There were people just like the OP saying the same thing in Latin in Ancient Rome.

Originally Posted by Jim Bremner (Post 11395899)

Everyone is a winner

Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 11395486)

There is no such beast as an "American Culture".

There was, in the mean, a set of societal norms and a Constitution that helped, in many ways, define what America as a society meant.

We have never been homogeneous in race or outlook but there was, with exceptions, an expectation of certain behaviors and perspectives: Belief in education, religious tolerance, respect for others, freedom of speech, etc. as discussed in the BoR and the Constitution; the ten commandments without the cross so to speak.

Every successful, free, society operates this way.

Has the US made blunders, often spectacular mistakes? Of course. Show me Utopia and I'll show you a cartoon. But we have, addressed those ills as well as human nature allows.

All societies have an arch, from establishment to ruins that are a tourist destination...whether or not we can arrest the downward trend is in question.

Solutions, causes?

Plenty. I could list 50 off the top of my head.

Start with a complete revamp of our educational system and end two party rule.

Originally Posted by black73 (Post 11395938)

The difference between our culture now (wrong?) and the culture many of us old farts grew up in (right?) is the working mother. My mom never worked (full time) and the same for almost every one I knew in my age group. We, apparently, were the last generation to have that luxury.

It doesn't mean that all is lost and their is something more wrong with our culture now than there was then. There was plenty wrong in culture back then, also. The Good Ol' Days weren't always that good.

It's just different now, that's all.