The best things in life are less valuable now then...?

Question

Are the so called 'important' things valued less now than at any point in history?

The example that I give is of personal relationships.
More women than ever before are choosing to persue a career over a relationship, with many who have done this and are older regreting it after the fact.
More men than ever are having very short (Yo-Yo if you like) relationships, then tradeing up if you will.
And visa-versa.

So are the 'important' things in life, those things that the human race has realised it needed throughout it's entire history, things like Love, Hope, Compasion, Empathy, Kindnes, etc. being viewed of lesser value now than in history and why?

Please explain your answers.

I thankyou in advance.

Answer 1

What a great question! One of the best I've seen since joining yahoo answers only two days ago!

I would have to say that yes the best things that life has to offer us are valued less and less with each passing day. The reasons are many, I will try to give my opinion on a few of them.

1.) Masses are more easily controled because of technology.

Everywhere you look there is a billboard or an add telling your subconscious what is valuble and those things are usually material possesions and another persons opinion of you. Whether or not you are accpeted as cool by a certain group of people is much more important than being kind. These are the messages that are given to us.

2.) Hatred is bred and fed to the masses

Once sacred ideas and faiths are now MOSTLY (in my opinion) used to teach people how to hate without realizing it. Lets take the subject of homosexuality for example. Many people who claim to know god will openly say things like "I hate gay people" and when you ask them why, they dont really have an answer other than something they heard someone else say. No original thoughts to express their anger. Its as if they are on autopilot which leads to my third point.

3. Many people seem to be walking around in a sleep state or haze.

The reason for this is probably to complicated for any of us to comprehend but basicly I believe it is because there is an extreme lack of individualism within our society. Sure almost everyone thinks they are an individual with they're own identity but would seem to me that most people are actually copies of eachother. As if they have downloaded they're identity from MTV or something.

So I guess the bottom line is that people these days are placing too much value on material posesions and to busy comparing them selves with others to ever discover the true value burried inside of them selves and there for meaningfull things like Love, Hope, Compassion, Empathy and Kindness are never truly discoverd.

Great Question

Answer 2

Love is always valued whether it is parental, Godly or romantic. But money these days is necessary and without all you're doing is existing and surviving.

Answer 3

many things for example the size of my balls.