Society is decaying.

[Taber]

I'm an Army Veteran who currently lives in Kansas and is a registered Republican. I am on break from my college semesters and it's the holidays. I've been spending time around a lot of relatives, both close and distant, and they all have had things to say. They spoke of how Colorado legalizing weed was a sure-fire sign that society is degrading. Equal marriage is a sign that American society is decaying into slothful and corrupting decadence. America just isn't the country that is use to be. Things were better in the past. The current generations don't know anything about work, or being good neighbors, or knowing their place.


Bull crap.

Maybe it's just me, but I seriously doubt any of these things show a sign of decay of civilization or the United States as a nation. Marijuana use has always been a thing within these relatives life-times. Homosexual relations have been a thing since, likely, the dawn of our species and certainly been a thing since these relatives were alive. How do these things being more public bring about societal decay and degradation? Not to mention, these opinions have grown more vocal since President Obama became President. I'd like to think that society has gotten better since, ya'know, secret invasions of Cambodia and slavery were around. It's not like these facets of human living haven't been around.

Do you think society is plummeting into the mud or is this a bunch of old folks merely claiming to be superior?

[Estado Paulista]

No, it is not. In fact, it is getting better.

[Blasveck]

I can't complain. More weed and marriages are always a good thing.

[The Serbian Empire]

To me, legalizing marijuana is a realization that prohibition has failed much like in alcohol. If one doesn't like marijuana, don't smoke it!

[Taber]

No, it is not. In fact, it is getting better.

Then why do these people feel this way? How is SOCIETY IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL?

[Nanzheng]

Every generation always laments social decline and harkens back to some "golden age". On balance I think things are neither better nor worse than they have been in the past. Nihil novi sub sole.

[Neuhausen]

Yes, situation is getting worse. Drugs should never be legalized.

[Jamjai]

I live in the suburbs

[Estado Paulista]

No, it is not. In fact, it is getting better.

Then why do these people feel this way? How is SOCIETY IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL?

They were probably raised that way. They don't welcome societal change because it might seem wrong or bad in their flawed perception of morality. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, really.

[Ashmoria]

No, it is not. In fact, it is getting better.

I agree. we are better than ever.

[Neuhausen]

Then why do these people feel this way? How is SOCIETY IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL?

They were probably raised that way. They don't welcome societal change because it might seem wrong or bad in their flawed perception of morality. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, really.

How can you call their views flawed?

[Estado Paulista]

They were probably raised that way. They don't welcome societal change because it might seem wrong or bad in their flawed perception of morality. I don't think there's anything you can do about it, really.

How can you call their views flawed?

Because they are flawed?

[European Socialist Republic]

People have always complained that society is decaying. Even Socrates did it!

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

[Britain and Brittany]

I'm an Army Veteran who currently lives in Kansas and is a registered Republican. I am on break from my college semesters and it's the holidays. I've been spending time around a lot of relatives, both close and distant, and they all have had things to say. They spoke of how Colorado legalizing weed was a sure-fire sign that society is degrading. Equal marriage is a sign that American society is decaying into slothful and corrupting decadence. America just isn't the country that is use to be. Things were better in the past. The current generations don't know anything about work, or being good neighbors, or knowing their place.


Bull crap.

Maybe it's just me, but I seriously doubt any of these things show a sign of decay of civilization or the United States as a nation. Marijuana use has always been a thing within these relatives life-times. Homosexual relations have been a thing since, likely, the dawn of our species and certainly been a thing since these relatives were alive. How do these things being more public bring about societal decay and degradation? Not to mention, these opinions have grown more vocal since President Obama became President. I'd like to think that society has gotten better since, ya'know, secret invasions of Cambodia and slavery were around. It's not like these facets of human living haven't been around.

Do you think society is plummeting into the mud or is this a bunch of old folks merely claiming to be superior?

The 1950s were the peak of human civilisation

[Neuhausen]

How can you call their views flawed?

Because they are flawed?

Their views are flawed only because you think so?

[Lydenburg]

No, it is not. In fact, it is getting better.

On this: it's a matter of perspective. OP, some people indeed interpret the factors named or implied thereof as being signs of social enlightenment. Just as many in the interpret these same factors are signs of social decline. It's in the perspective.

[European Socialist Republic]

The 1950s were the peak of human civilisation

Source?

[Sensorland]

Every generation always laments social decline and harkens back to some "golden age". On balance I think things are neither better nor worse than they have been in the past. Nihil novi sub sole.

Most of these "Golden ages" weren't as good as their minds trick them into thinking. Society is getting better, definitely.

[Lydenburg]

I'm an Army Veteran who currently lives in Kansas and is a registered Republican. I am on break from my college semesters and it's the holidays. I've been spending time around a lot of relatives, both close and distant, and they all have had things to say. They spoke of how Colorado legalizing weed was a sure-fire sign that society is degrading. Equal marriage is a sign that American society is decaying into slothful and corrupting decadence. America just isn't the country that is use to be. Things were better in the past. The current generations don't know anything about work, or being good neighbors, or knowing their place.


Bull crap.

Maybe it's just me, but I seriously doubt any of these things show a sign of decay of civilization or the United States as a nation. Marijuana use has always been a thing within these relatives life-times. Homosexual relations have been a thing since, likely, the dawn of our species and certainly been a thing since these relatives were alive. How do these things being more public bring about societal decay and degradation? Not to mention, these opinions have grown more vocal since President Obama became President. I'd like to think that society has gotten better since, ya'know, secret invasions of Cambodia and slavery were around. It's not like these facets of human living haven't been around.

Do you think society is plummeting into the mud or is this a bunch of old folks merely claiming to be superior?

The 1950s were the peak of human civilisation

inb4 "except for ethnic minorities, homosexuals, mental patients, and the lower class".

[Mavorpen]

I'm an Army Veteran who currently lives in Kansas and is a registered Republican. I am on break from my college semesters and it's the holidays. I've been spending time around a lot of relatives, both close and distant, and they all have had things to say. They spoke of how Colorado legalizing weed was a sure-fire sign that society is degrading. Equal marriage is a sign that American society is decaying into slothful and corrupting decadence. America just isn't the country that is use to be. Things were better in the past. The current generations don't know anything about work, or being good neighbors, or knowing their place.


Bull crap.

Maybe it's just me, but I seriously doubt any of these things show a sign of decay of civilization or the United States as a nation. Marijuana use has always been a thing within these relatives life-times. Homosexual relations have been a thing since, likely, the dawn of our species and certainly been a thing since these relatives were alive. How do these things being more public bring about societal decay and degradation? Not to mention, these opinions have grown more vocal since President Obama became President. I'd like to think that society has gotten better since, ya'know, secret invasions of Cambodia and slavery were around. It's not like these facets of human living haven't been around.

Do you think society is plummeting into the mud or is this a bunch of old folks merely claiming to be superior?

The 1950s were the peak of human civilisation

Yeah, man. For example, everything went to shit when those dirty black people began gaining a slew of basic rights in 60s United States. That was the signal that humanity is screwed.

[Estado Paulista]

Because they are flawed?

Their views are flawed only because you think so?

Not only because of that. They're flawed because they're outdated and not adaptable to societal change — something that is always going to happen, wether you like it or not.

[Imperializt Russia]

I read "Kansas", "Republican" and "family" and I became concerned.
Good of you to be breaking stereotypes!

No, society is not collapsing.
It's doing alright. Could be better.

[West Afrika]

It's not, they're just being conservatives.

Just to seem unbiased, I don't like liberals either.

[Beta Test]

If liberty and equality are somehow a form of decay, than I think we aren't decaying fast enough.

[Othelos]

Old people usually think society is decaying.

It's really a matter of perception.