What's wrong with our culture?

[stevej37]

^^^ warning!!

[Esel Mann]

Originally Posted by sugarwood

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

Lol, someone tell the store manager sugartitz is loose again in the pamprin aisle!

Baz is actually in the kool memberz only club here.

[thor66]

yeh, props to Baz

[berettafan]

Yep I’m a Baz fan.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Esel Mann

Baz is actually in the kool memberz only club here.

Yep, everyone has a cool friend, and Baz is mine.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

How do you define the American culture?

The Beverly Hills Hilbillys

[stevej37]

Elly was hot!

[tabs]

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 science and tech to save us..

[LEAKYSEALS951]

My grandparents blame it on Elvis.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by tabs

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..

fify

[tabs]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Elly was hot!

A friend of mine used to look exactly like Ellie when she was younger..she even went to a function where she talked to prez Reagan for 1/2 an hour..they talked about horses.

[stevej37]

^^^ She rocked those jeans. (Elly May)

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Otter74

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.

That is because the degradation of morality in society has been increasing for thousands of years. As a rule, every generation is more lax as to what is moral or immoral than the previous one (use acceptable versus unacceptable if it make you feel more comfortable). The change has been a slow process (think the illustration of turning up the temperature of the water in a pot with a frog in it). This seems to have sped up dramatically as of late. Some believe this is a sign of the times.

[Jim Bremner]

Everyone is a winner

Can't spank a child for misbehaving

Can't tell a kid that they're bad



Undisciplined kids turn out to be turds.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Jim Bremner

Everyone is a winner

♪♪Everyone's a winner Baby, that's no lie.♪♪

[black73]

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.

[HobieMarty]

^^^ Hmmmm, my Mother was a Highschool Science Teacher, worked all the time, and I seemed to have turned out okay.

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[black73]

Exactly!

[upsscott]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

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.

I very much agree with your post.

[upsscott]

Originally Posted by black73

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.

My wife and I sacrificed financially big time so she could stay home with our boys until they were out of high school. Best thing we ever did. I have two successful and responsible sons and I give my wife 99% of the credit. Parenting first.