As a child of the 50s and 60s it is not always easy to adjust to the social changes. Sometimes I pause and ask the question - is it better or worse today?Clearly, technolology has been a wonder but like so many things, it is a double edged sword - the Internet through which you receive this, being one case in point.
We are certainly wealthier; have more free time and more choice. Medical advances mean that we can live longer and hopefully more healthily, although this too can be a double edged weapon.
Spiritually, socially and politically we have gone downhill rapidly. We have lost our sense of community, our decency, often our sense of duty and have embraced a hedonistic and materialistic philosophy.
We are sophisticates but we lack depth, education and the capacity to reason.
Crime is 1,100% higher than when I was born. Moron TV and sleazy tabloids rule the roost.
Our national identity has been rubbished by the left in their singleminded quest to destroy all that is positive in our world and to the extent that even conservatives now subscribe to their logic.
Society is now more unjust than ever before; rewarding the feckless and the social parasites with wanton abandon whilst taxing the honest and hardworking into the ground.
We are an immoral society reaching out to become amoral.
If I could have stopped the clock in the early 60s - I think I would have opted to do so before the slippery slope became too steep.
