The collapse of American Values?

For many years we have been hear­ing about the decline of our soci­ety, if you are inter­est­ed in his­to­ry that is a pat­tern that is wor­thy of your inter­est.  We hear words like tol­er­ance and phras­es like “cant we all just get along” the real­i­ty is that for the most part No we cant all just get along.

There is one thing that we all have in com­mon, it is a small thing real­ly but we are all human, we may not speak the same lan­guage, we may not like the same foods, but we all laugh the same and we cry the same.

We expe­ri­ence life in the same ways, though for some of us in vast­ly dif­fer­ent cir­cum­stances.

We try to do the best we can but some­times we fall short.

We think about the dif­fer­ent things in life from our favorite foods to what used to be called enter­tain­ment but now is lit­tle more than trash dis­played on a wide screen High Def­i­n­i­tion TV.

In an inter­view about the great depres­sion (part one) with a dear soul who at the time was a touch­ing 99 years old, we dis­cussed the cur­rent way in which the world was back in the 1920s and how the same things that were hap­pen­ing back then are in fact hap­pen­ing again.

One the things that she described to me which haunts me even today was that we were in for a very bad time when it hap­pens again, not if it hap­pens she said, when it hap­pens, it will be much worse this time.

I was curi­ous about why she felt that way, then she began to describe how things were back then, fam­i­lies and neigh­bors helped each oth­er, if one fam­i­ly had corn an0ther flour, yet anoth­er might have pota­toes, we would gath­er togeth­er and we would bring what we had, then we would all eat. 

Peo­ple did not go hun­gry where we lived.

The prob­lem today is that peo­ple do not know each oth­er, neigh­bors two doors down are strangers to us, it will be much worse because of this break­down in how the fam­i­ly oper­ates, there will be no trust and because of that instead of gath­er­ing togeth­er to share food, they will fight and they will do hor­ri­ble things for a can of food that they would not have looked at more than once on the store shelves before.