What is wrong with our society?
- Thread starter gunslingingbird
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I think you about got it right.Actually I know crime in general accross the board is less than it was 10 or 20 years ago.24 hour news stations reporting the same things over and over make it seem like its worse than it is.
I **** these topics.
What is wrong with our society????
Compared to what???
Acting like this dance is new....please.....
What is wrong with our society????
Compared to what???
Acting like this dance is new....please.....
Do you mean to imply that all the reports we hear on the news about psychos going on mass ********* sprees before ******* themselves, teenagers ******* their families for stupid fleeting romances, people ********* ******* for the fun of it, and perverted men arranging to meet with 13 year old girls are normal?
Why do you "**** these topics"? Is it because you see these occurrences as trivial, everyday events that are just reported on by the media, but didn't really happen? Actually, with your response, you're further emphasizing my point: what is wrong with a society in which its members are completely indifferent to heinous acts of cruelty and ***** of their fellow humans?
"Compared to what?" Do you really need a comparison? How about the tv show 'Leave It To Beaver'? I don't recall ever seeing Beaver use an AK-47 to mow down a line of people standing in line at the supermarket, and then setting himself on fire just because his classmates picked on him at school that day.
This may not be a "new dance," but the tempo at which we are going has gone from an adagio cantabile to a molto allegro con brillo, if you want to set music to your "dance."
That's because "Leave it to Beaver" was an idealized sanitized version of a world that existed only for a very few if any at all.Watch the show,see any blacks?See any serious crimes at all?See any lynchings?These things did exist at the time but not on TV very much,at not at all on a feel good show like that.
Geez June Cleaver vacuumed in a dress with Pearls on.It was TV not the real world.
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What is "normal"?
This stuff has been happening for hundreds's of years, and it will happen for hundreds more. Whether you see it on TV or not, it still exists.
I didn't mean to say that it was a perfect world. I was sarcastically trying to say that there isn't really a standard to be followed.
Of course it exists, but I consider it abnormal because if it were normal for ALL members of the group in which we live to regularly participate in these activities, I doubt we would, as a species, made it much farther past the Middle Ages.
Facetious
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^^^ Please apply African Americans for purposes other than political. They deserve much better than that. :hatsoff:
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Q - Re: What is wrong with our society?
A - the American public education apparatus.
Remember, it is predominately the english as a primary language people that can't spell.
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Q - Re: What is wrong with our society?
A - the American public education apparatus.
Remember, it is predominately the english as a primary language people that can't spell.
::looks at your age:: 27, eh.. so you were 17 when you started to finally take notice of things around you? ::laughs::
Well.. where to begin? History books are a good choice. A few short sayings can explain a whole lot.
History repeats. (good bad good bad, you cant have the good without the bad and history? It's not a straight line.. there are periods of economic growth, warless years.. etc etc. And then there are depressions, suicide bombers and idiot presidents. Explain those if you want. The path of history has many twists and turns.)
Repression doesnt work, it creates a 'black market' of sorts to whatever it prohibits. In america we openly opress all those things that the moral majority tell us to. And then.. we go home and reality sets in. We browse the porn sites, we ***** the ******, we say things considered bad to blow off steam and we watch TV for the opposite outcomes. They watch racing for the crashes... we watch the news for the shock value..(No, not the everyday *******.. but who flashed their pussy today? Who died? Black guy or a chick for the president?) Repression ultimately stresses the populace.
The customer is always right. No, they're fucking not. They never are, they never were.. they know it and we know it but they demand absolute respect.. quick service.. and they wanted it ten minutes ago! The corporate machine tells you what you want, what you deserve.. and it's all a big lie that makes jobs unpleasant and unrealistic for everybody.. at every level. The customer is constantly getting fucked over. Price, quality, service, and they refuse to give into the reality of it all. I have a few pieces of advice for those who complain.. coming up next.
Dont shoot the messenger. Ever.
Dont fuck with any of the following:
The quartermaster. (Anyone who gives you the items you need.. cashiers come to mind!)
The medic. (You want someone to save you? Be friggin' nice about it. Do not.. under any circumstances.. complain about or to.. your doctor RIGHT before he operates on you.)
The food. (I'm sorry, you wanted it medium rare instead of medium? What? What's wrong with me? Why did I do what? No I didnt cook it.. I'm only the ... okay.. sorry.. no I'm not talking back. Yes, you can speak to the manager. I'll go fix your food. I'm sorry, ma'am.) Yeah.
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Other than that, I dont see much of anything truly wrong happening. People are responding to increased stress and fast-paced lives. Some people see a shrink, some people take a machete to a school bus full of ****. Stop looking at the disease and look at a cure. Slow life back down, cater to the true needs of the individual and help them find a place in society.. the hunter-gatherer stage of humanity is over and people are honestly lost now more than ever. But that's just now.. in ten, twenty, a hundred years from now the situation will be even more different and the response of some skewed psyche will be worse, I'm sure. But who knows, who can worry? Who has the *****? Seriously.. who took my friggin' *****? ::walks away::
Your concern is admirable but misplaced I think.It is not only right but totally necessary to point out the what the truth of the country was in these regards in a debate about what is wrong about society where some like to point to the past as some sort of better time and totally fictional representations of such a world like "Leave it to Beaver" are invoked.America of the 50s was an aparthied(like South Africa) situation in many ways.And pointing out the truth of legal discrimination and ******** perpetrated by the govt as well as some citizens against these fellow citizens as well the lack of representation that such people even existed in the popular media is absolutely appropriate.
People not taking responsibility for themselves...
:Looks at your age:...
onders:... No, I was actually much younger when I started noticing things around me, I just used 10 years as a number. Sort of a reference, if you will. Actually, I was probably discussing **** like this while you were still playing Power Rangers in the 5th grade. 
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