Almost 50 years ago, an adolescent psychotherapy patient of mine announced there were only 23 more shoplifting days until Christmas. At the time, the girl shocked me with her sincerity and thought that taking from a store was different than taking from a person. When people feel anonymous, they are far more daring.
Little has changed in those years regarding moral and ethical values in the US. Any change would appear to have loosened the structures rather than improving them. More than ever, it is not the action that causes problems, it is getting caught that is the culprit. Cheating the government out of income tax it might otherwise have claimed tops the list of "It's okay as long as I don't get caught" mentality.choices.
As a child I don't ever recall meeting anyone who simply had to 'have it now'.There was much longing for more during the depression but the wants were simple; food, comfort, and things that other kids seemed to have. Today there is an endless choice of 'things to have' and as soon as you get one of them, a new and improved one is trying to squeeze into its space.
Modesty seems to be an unknown concept in college dorms. Voyeurism has risen while post adolescents flagrantly and publicly perform rather obvious carnal acts. However, despite all these lapses of acceptable conduct in prior years, these behaviors cannot be blames for the lies and obstinacy of the Republicans who are determined to make Obama fail.
The under 30 crowd has lost its shyness and sexual embarrassment. Roommates no longer seem to need the privacy they once claimed. Reading a book published in 1999, there was a refernece to Alvin Toffler who write Future Shock. from Wikipedia Future Shock is a book written by the sociologist and futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. It grew out of an article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue.[1][2][3][4] The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.
Future shock is also a term for a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, introduced by Toffler in his book of the same name. Toffler's shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time". For all the article, click here.
People who rely on the Bible to determine their life choices in the 21st C, (some research I wrote about some time ago), says the Republicans have more difficulty with those changes than the Democrats. Is it a surprise that the Teapartiers chose a logo that fits the birth of this nation over 200 years ago?
Must the rest of the country be held back by these people whose brains cannot evolve and adapt as fast as the rest of us? Is that what happened to make the dinosaurs extinct? I see a similarity here. Animals and people become extinct when they can no longer adapt to the changes necessary for their survival. The analogy to the Republicans is blatant.
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