What Happened to US?

"We became a less civil society. The media stopped reporting news or doing investigative journalism and started creating it. Families broke up and no one was taught respect anymore, for themselves or for others. People stopped believing in alot of things, like doing their best, earning their pay, looking out for others and being kind. Discretion and privacy became old fashioned. Parents stopped being responsible for their children. Instead too many became selfish and attention seeking. Honesty and integrity got lost along the way too. Even the supposed best among us, leaders, religious or secular, teachers etal, began acting like uneducated criminals. Anything goes now. We are inundated with every kind of ugliness we never used to want or need to know. Excess in anything and everything. WillfuI ignorance has become a norm. Just look at who our heros are today. But what's the use of belaboring how much is wrong with attitudes and behavior and abuses of every kind? It starts at home and just gets worse outside the home and at all levels.Gentility, dignity, writing and speaking properly and excellence are lost arts. Good words like "values, honor, pride" have been rendered meaningless. I mourn the loss of the best of America."

-BarbaraS