I have been around for 65 years and it seems to me in our society competition has become a monster. From little children's organized sport activities to our elected officials everything had gotten ugly. Winning has become the only thing. Fathers are brawling over childrens sports. High school athletes now concentrate on money/scholarships as there is talk of paying athletes at college level sports. College sports are now clawing at each other for dollars from tv revenue. Government at all levels is getting dirtier by the day and it has been filty since day one. The feds now barely even speak to each other. The all mighty dollar has replaced The Almighty.
We have had a shaded past history but it appears we have not learned much from it and we don't even so much as teach it oin our schools. Everything is as much gratification ASAP and "get out of my way". Women are street fighting like men used to Why? What has changed them? I recall two girl fights in highscoll in four years time. Also, look at the madness at these stores that open letting herds of humanity in to buy a Golden Fleece game box, with people runnig over and stepping on people to get this stupid toy. We never did that before what has changed us? Bottom line I see now why so many nations dislike us and frankly, I don't like us either!
I agree with ttwt that it's not as bad as the media would have us believe. Instant gratification does pose problems, and I think has made us more shallow as a nation, but in other ways we are so much better off than before, like equal rights. Plus, American politics have been scandal ridden since the beginning.
I have been around for 65 years and it seems to me in our society competition has become a monster. From little children's organized sport activities to our elected officials everything had gotten ugly. Winning has become the only thing. Fathers are brawling over childrens sports. High school athletes now concentrate on money/scholarships as there is talk of paying athletes at college level sports. College sports are now clawing at each other for dollars from tv revenue. Government at all levels is getting dirtier by the day and it has been filty since day one. The feds now barely even speak to each other. The all mighty dollar has replaced The Almighty.
We have had a shaded past history but it appears we have not learned much from it and we don't even so much as teach it oin our schools. Everything is as much gratification ASAP and "get out of my way". Women are street fighting like men used to Why? What has changed them? I recall two girl fights in highscoll in four years time. Also, look at the madness at these stores that open letting herds of humanity in to buy a Golden Fleece game box, with people runnig over and stepping on people to get this stupid toy. We never did that before what has changed us? Bottom line I see now why so many nations dislike us and frankly, I don't like us either!
This is the danger of generalizing. Sure, our respected OP is 65, just a youngster compared to, say, me.
The percentage of bad behavior hasn't changed much. The visibility has. We get far too much selected information. There are 100 murders a day in America and Jodi Arias and Zimmerman own all the news. Why? I don't have a clue.
Used to be you could beat your woman and she'd keep her mouth shut. Now the bitch is liable to call the cops! So it starts to look like more guys are beating their women but really, it's probably less.
Other countries hate us because we insist on intervening in every single obscure place i the world. That's our slimy politicians, not us.
But they ASK us to, or even BEG us to, and then they hate us later. :lol:
Who asks us to? Their politicians that get bags of cash or their people that we eradicate as collateral damage?
I doubt that we were asked into Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. Vietnam maybe but who did the asking?
I have been around for 65 years and it seems to me in our society competition has become a monster. From little children's organized sport activities to our elected officials everything had gotten ugly. Winning has become the only thing. Fathers are brawling over childrens sports. High school athletes now concentrate on money/scholarships as there is talk of paying athletes at college level sports. College sports are now clawing at each other for dollars from tv revenue. Government at all levels is getting dirtier by the day and it has been filty since day one. The feds now barely even speak to each other. The all mighty dollar has replaced The Almighty.
We have had a shaded past history but it appears we have not learned much from it and we don't even so much as teach it oin our schools. Everything is as much gratification ASAP and "get out of my way". Women are street fighting like men used to Why? What has changed them? I recall two girl fights in highscoll in four years time. Also, look at the madness at these stores that open letting herds of humanity in to buy a Golden Fleece game box, with people runnig over and stepping on people to get this stupid toy. We never did that before what has changed us? Bottom line I see now why so many nations dislike us and frankly, I don't like us either!
I have been around for 65 years and it seems to me in our society competition has become a monster. From little children's organized sport activities to our elected officials everything had gotten ugly. Winning has become the only thing. Fathers are brawling over childrens sports. High school athletes now concentrate on money/scholarships as there is talk of paying athletes at college level sports. College sports are now clawing at each other for dollars from tv revenue. Government at all levels is getting dirtier by the day and it has been filty since day one...
Libya? Those rebels were begging for our help. Same thing in Syria now. We aid rebels and coups to usually take out their "politicians", if that's what you want to even call them.
Among the rebels are the super-rebels who will become that country's new politicians. It's smart to bet on the winning side. Sure, it's sickening, but isn't that how the game is played??
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