With the advent of cable, the dishes - today's viewership is awash with choices. That lone-wolf, bunker down at home thing extends throughout...social norms that existed once, and for a long time, have been splattered far and wide. We treat each other badly today, since we no longer seem to have, or even desire, the things in common that we used to cling to and rally around.
Sad...so much violence today, so full of self-centered attitudes.
You are 28. I am saddened that you missed the time when I grew up. You would have taken comfort in those times. There were definitive lines between children and adults...children aspired for the privileges of adulthood, but such had to be earned. So kids behaved. And adults took great pains to insulate the children from the ugliness. I certainly was.
But things changed on the political map, so today we have kids being exposed to everything and anything - rampant divorce, 24/7 sex and violence, adults in fear of even touching a child lest they be branded as a sex criminal and see their whole life ruined (I'm sorry - today, if I saw a child get grabbed up and put into a car, or if it ran out into traffic - I would do nothing more than call an agent of the State).
Well - I guess I ramble on, eh? It's getting late, and I have to prepare supper for my dear wife.