Well...I am hear to tell you that we (the USA) are not a great society. We like to think of ourselves as great. We like to tell other nations how great we are, but the the reality of our daily living proves otherwise.
I believe we WERE a great society, but OHHH how things have changed in the last 50 or so years. A “great society” does not have citizens who look only to their own self-interests at the expense of everyone else. It does not have people who look at someone else’s property as simply something to take when the true owner is not looking. It does not have an abundance of people who lack simple decency for the elderly and disabled of its society.
Let me give some concrete examples of what I mean. Have you noticed that it is no longer acceptable to slow down before making a right or left hand turn off of a street? Just look in your rear-view mirror the next time you go to turn off of a street and see how many behind you are throwing their hands up in disdain or are giving you the one-fingered salute. I guess we now expect everyone to go up on two wheels as they make that 90 degree turn at 50MPH.
Have you tried to merge into traffic and realize that no one wants to make eye contact with you as they keep passing you by and as you sit there with your turn signal on just hopping someone might actually notice you and let you in? How dare you try to come onto a street that so many already have laid claim to.
Have you ever watched people in your local store rush ahead to beat that poor slower elderly person to the front of the line or cut them off out in the parking lot as they tried to get to that closer parking spot?
On a personal note...I left my digital camera in the golf cart this past weekend only to learn that someone who took the same cart out after me decided to keep my camera as their own. I am sure they thought...”wow, a gift from God. It just magically appeared in my cart.” Or maybe the person simply thought...I have been screwed in the past so it is my turn to screw someone else. You know, that good old golden rule of do to others what they have done to you. Or maybe the person didn’t think about anyone else but her or himself. I am sure they looked at the many pictures on my memory card where I had shared some great memorable moments with my cancer surviving wife during our 5 year celebration of being cancer free and they thought..."poor fool, he should have taken better care of his camera."
Thanks fellow citizen. You not only took my camera, but you took away memories as well. Bravo to you!
These are just a few examples of why I say...we are NOT a great society. We are a society now made up of “me first, screw everyone else” peeps. We are so busy making ourselves feel better by comparing ourselves to other nations and exposing their faults while ignoring our own degrading societal issues.
What has happened? Are we not teaching our children the idea of respect any longer? Are we so wrapped up in our quest for more that we have lost sight of what it means to truly live? I am not sure what the real answer is but I can say that I am sick and tired of it and hope someday and somehow we wake up to what is going on and try to make a change.
There is some inside poop for the day...
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