envy greed etc.
is rapacious capitalism one?
or is t.v rotting peoples morality?
what about the influence of seedy squalid newspapers?
are we giving our kids the wrong type of education?
what about scandal/gossip mags that make people compare themselves unfavourably with what the rich and famous have got.
is advertising becoming more pernicious, and making us feel like we never have enough of the good things in life.
are banks fanning the corruption with their easy lending rules, turning youngsters into me me me..now now now impatient selfish people?
something has obviously been having a corrosive effect down the decades to make recent generations less considerate...surely it is not beyond our brightest minds to discover exactly what.
if it is a combination of the above...ie many causes...what can we do to reverse the trend?
2007-02-21 21:37:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
A properly functioning society is made up of groups or teams and individuals. There are advantages to being an individual, just as there are advantages to belonging to groups.
Somewhere along the line, we've become captivated by the cult of individuality, and this has had a knock-on effect on the way we behave as groups. Many people now make do with virtual groups of people who have the same interests, which is not the same as interacting with on'e neighbours and trying to find common ground where none appears to exist.
Too many individuals, not enough group synergy, result - society has fractured into many islands of 'me' who prefer to interact with other me's on different continents, rather than get stuck into their neighbourhood community.
The fall of Rome anyone?
2007-02-21 23:15:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dogstarrr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go back to basics.
I think we could all learn something by having no t.v.media.
No luxuries and learn to respect each other.
As they say - its not the World thats mad - but the people
in it.
And although I am not terribly religious but I am a Christian
it says in the bible that 'one day man will kill man'. And I think
this is because we are becoming to clever. So - we have to
take each day at a time and try to teach our own children
values.
2007-02-22 06:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by Minxy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have found a similar commentary in Roman times, every generation thinks the worlds going to hell and harks back to some mythical better time.
2007-02-22 05:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would have cost you a fortune in points asking all individually lol time to chill my love you head has too many things going on youll give youself a headache
2007-02-22 05:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by nendlin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you have answered your own question there,and very good answers they were too.
2007-02-22 05:43:04 · answer #5 · answered by Pat R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋