It seems any and everything are being accepted as fine and ‘okay’.
Everything has become so wishy-washy… no morals, standards, values, manners, class, appropriateness of dress, behaviors, etc..and our world shows it more as each day passes…
Morals, standards, guidelines, tradition, and appropriateness give a society boundaries to follow and boundaries are good. Sure, it’s interesting and fun to step a bit outside them, at times, but when all sense of decorum is lost and all boundaries are pushed and accepted, society falls into a kind of random insanity and chaos … where nothing has any real value or meaning…
Good becomes bad, bad becomes good, lie becomes truth and truth is deemed lie then confusion, chaos, immorality, lack of decorum in what’s appropriate as in dress and everything else, manners, personal dignity are lost and a society becomes savage-like…
When those with morals become the ‘outcasts’ and those of immorality become the standard … we have fallen into hell… a kind of Sodom and Gomorrah…
A moral minority exists now… that’s what I am feeling in the world. Little to nothing worthwhile to watch on TV.. so much focused on crime, sex, exploitation and sin in general…a continual pushing of the envelope until there is nothing left… but the abyss of hell…
Our leaders blatantly lie, con and spin for agenda as the media holds little accountable and contribute to the downfall of society.
Not much value is given to morality or healthy emotional standards. Our society has become lost and devoid of standards, values and goodness on almost all levels…
The over emphasis on sex and lack of control in many has become rampant. The sanctity of a human being is being destroyed. Human life means nothing to many and the lack of physical and emotional health are becoming the norm instead of the oddity.
It once was rare to see a fat person and fat at that time, was actually just a bit pudgy and these people were ashamed and shamed. Perhaps, shame should be brought back …
Only a few got pregnant out of wedlock or ‘before’ they got married and they were ashamed and shamed… People are having children today who have no idea how to even care for themselves.
Shame those who have children out of wedlock, shame those who have affairs and cheat. Shame those who are obese because of gluttony. Shame those who dress inappropriately. Shame those who don’t groom themselves healthfully and properly.
We are now accepting and tolerating things that we have not previously, in order, that no one feels bad about themselves. Perhaps, people need to feel bad and be ashamed and shamed, in order, that society rise to higher acceptable behaviors and appropriateness, instead of to lower.
The cries being now, “Don’t judge me. Don’t be a bully. Don’t be a ‘hater’…” PC rules the world and it is destructive to everything of value that of good. These mantras are destroying society… allowing for the idiocy and slovenliness of immorality, crassness, abuses to self and others, rudeness, etc. to flourish…
Many have lost self-pride, self-awareness and the ability to discern. This is what happens when a society has no standards, boundaries, or set standards and morality to live by. All that’s left is tolerance… to tolerate that which is intolerable…
Society has been lowered to the ‘acceptance’ of any and everything… same-sex marriage, pedophilia, sexual deviates, perversion, inappropriateness of dress, cheating, lying, no manners, no standards, no guidelines, no family standards, twisted thinking, actually, more abusive behaviors to self and others are being accepted than ever before.
I say shame and humiliation needs to be brought back…
‘Political correctness’ and tolerance are lowering our standards to non-existent.
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that was their plan so they could enact a socialist society. Get rid of morals and the family unit.
Excellent piece, Ayn. You’re on a roll!
So correct Ayn.
You hit it square on the head, girlfriend!!! The entire world is wanting to go to hell in a hand bag and none of us are suposed to speak a word of decent. One of the most oft spoke words are ‘don’t judge others” REALLY???? Read your Bible. You will find that we are SUPPOSED to judge between good and evil. The Bible is FILLED with imprecatory prayer. Read your Bible!
Ayn, you are so right!!!
As morality dies, so will our great nation!
Agree! Very timely and on point article!
You got that right.
Four years after this was written and has it gotten better or worse?
2 Timothy 4:3 (ICB) The time will come when people WILL NOT listen to the true teaching. They will find more and more teachers who are pleasing to them, teachers who say the things they want to hear.
I agree with both CD Leist and Ayn Dillard. Still Christ is on the throne at the Father’s right hand, praying for us. And WE DO have free will, to eat, dress, read, follow who we wish. If it’s just you and God through Christ, you are a majority! It’s much easier to follow the crowd and fall off the cliff with them! Antonio Gramci’s strategy, Marxist in approach, was to destroy America by destroying Christian culture. Read the ten points of Marxism in the Communist Manifesto. It’s all mainstream now with a crony-capitalist face!