...from being a country where kids could go play in the neighborhoods and parents did not worry too much, or from a country where you did not have to lock your door, etc. Yes, I know it sounds like Beaver Cleaver, but what caused the change? Why MUST a tv show now include violence or sexual content or it gets canned? What happened to a good chuckle and home-made icecream under the trees?
2007-01-30 05:08:09 · 4 answers · asked by donkey hotay 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Yes, it is when the schools started teaching the children that they couldn't be disciplined. It happened when the bleeding hearts too over the country demanding rights for those who didn't deserve it. It was when the government decided that you should get more time for breaking a window than raping a woman or children. It happened when we got too comfortable with our sexuality and wanted to embrace differences (which in itself isn't a bad thing all the time).
It happened when we started to only care for ourselves and not our neighbors. It happened when men became punks and decided that guns were a quicker and easier way to handle disputes. It happened when the court started to allow people to claim insanity for doing bad things when at the time they really did know right from wrong. It also happened when people were allowed to sit on their bottoms with no regard instead of HAVING to work, but merely being allowed to be on public aid.
Its when the pies stopped coming to the newly moved in neighbors. Oh and lets not forget the era of "I love you man- pass the joint!" that has evolved to needles and drinks and things that kill you if you sniff them.
I wasn't around when the Beaver Cleaver times were- but wouldn't it had been nice??
I say too much dependence, less independence got us this way...
Sad isn't it?
2007-01-30 05:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by glorymomof3 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my own very humble, personal opinion, we allowed too many people from different countries to enter our country. Now, before anyone goes off on a rant about that, let me say I love our diverse country and all of the cultures that we have.
But here's the thing... America is known as the place where anyone can succeed. Come here with a dream and you'll be successful. So people came in droves. But even America can't support that many people so we ended up with hundreds of thousands of people, both born here and immigrated here, who aren't living their dream.
Because these people were all told they can do whatever they want to here, they did and when they failed and were destitute, the resort to whatever they need to do to survive... crime, drugs, shoplifting, welfare... all of the things that are at the bottom of the sociological barrel.
On top of that, generations have now been told that they can do anything they want to do, that they are capable of reaching whatever fantastic, far-out dreams they may have. American Idol demonstrates that every week when we see the disillusioned tone-deaf singers insist that they CAN sing and that their parents have told them they can sing. No matter what you've been told, everyone cannot succeed at everything they try. Everyone is not capable of doing anything they set their minds to doing.
So that adds even MORE disillusioned masses to our population. Disllusionment leads to discontent and desperation. That then leads to people doing bad things which leads to distrust on the part of the masses.
2007-01-30 06:01:56 · answer #2 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 60s changed all of this. That generation has caused the vast majority of the problems that we see today. They were lazy hippies that brought in the drug culture and socialism into the US. They also did a poor job of raising their children
2007-01-30 05:18:02 · answer #3 · answered by Matt 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That place exists... In Canada.
U.S. is full of egotistical, materialistic, ignorant people.
2007-01-30 05:12:46 · answer #4 · answered by ♥michele♥ 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋