If I Were The Devil

[Scat]

This is a radio broadcast by Paul Harvey from 1965.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VatjpiaYqPM

Eerily similar to where we are today and how we've gotten here.

 

[Stoked]

interesting listen.

 

[craig2112]

kind of goes to show that there is no "Hope and Change"
Just more of the same crap we've been getting for a half a century or more

 

[fallenchicken]

This is extremely silly. Christians continue to say that culture is decaying, when if you compare it to the past it's only improved.

Keep trying to take the country back, Christians. Although to what and where, I'm not quite sure.

 

[Stoked]

This is extremely silly. Christians continue to say that culture is decaying, when if you compare it to the past it's only improved. Keep trying to take the country back, Christians. Although to what and where, I'm not quite sure.

I think this is a blind as what you are railing against. Some areas have clearly improved and some areas have clearly decayed.

It is very much a mixed bag.

 

[fallenchicken]

I think this is a blind as what you are railing against. Some areas have clearly improved and some areas have clearly decayed.

It is very much a mixed bag.

What areas?

 

[Stoked]

What areas?

Two quick ones:

The importance of family (I dont mean a man and a woman). Two parental figures, family dinner, parents involved with their kids...

The ability to civily talk to people. The ability to carry on a polite, friendly conversation is rapidly becoming a lost art.

 

[Stoked]

On the reverse, two areas that have clearly improved:

Civil rights for minorities of all stripes.

Religious diversity

 

[fallenchicken]

Two quick ones:

The importance of family (I dont mean a man and a woman). Two parental figures, family dinner, parents involved with their kids...

The ability to civily talk to people. The ability to carry on a polite, friendly conversation is rapidly becoming a lost art.

I suppose these are agreeable. Obviously, there is an epidemic of young men walking away from their kids--and young women making very poor decisions. But let's not pretend bad parents and single mothers are unique to just my generation. The civility talk i definitely agree with, and I blame the internet. Though we as a culture are much more accepting than any generation before us. I don't think it's a contest, if you compare these to Religious Diversity and Civil Rights. Most people would prefer to live in 2012.

Not to say we don't have problems: the decline of the middle class. That's been happening over the past 3 decades, though. And even Rick Santorum would be hard-pressed to blame it on social issues.

 

[Stoked]

I suppose these are agreeable. Obviously, there is an epidemic of young men walking away from their kids--and young women making very poor decisions. But let's not pretend bad parents and single mothers are unique to just my generation. The civility talk i definitely agree with, and I blame the internet. Though we as a culture are much more accepting than any generation before us. I don't think it's a contest, if you compare these to Religious Diversity and Civil Rights. Most people would prefer to live in 2012.

Not to say we don't have problems: the decline of the middle class. That's been happening over the past 3 decades, though. And even Rick Santorum would be hard-pressed to blame it on social issues.

I agree with most of this. This is not a new problem but it is rapidly increasing in size and therefore damage to our society.

As for the talking civily. The internet is one of the tools but not the problem. It is the rise in the immediate gratification society. People are getting more disconnected and are losing their social abilities. the internet definitely plays a role in this.