Humanity's Descent Into the Ugly Side of Life

HUMANITY'S DESCENT INTO THE UGLY SIDE OF LIFE:

The following is not what I had intended to blog about this evening, and I had actually written it as a comment to a blog posted by my friend Karen at "Karen Howes" Karen's posting was titled: "ART AS A REFLECTION OF CULTURE" which inspired my posting for this evening.


Ever since the "Hippie" era America, along with most of Western civilization, had been on a slow descent into the ugly side of life (and that descent has been picking up speed ever since). What we see in our so-called "art" (music, movies, TV shows, paintings, sculptures, etc.) is nothing more the reflection of the "ugly" dwelling inside the majority of people today. Our society has debased everything once held dear and in high esteem, and I do mean everything; family, our children, religious beliefs, our relationships with our neighbors and with our wider communities and even life itself.

Violence and degenerate behavior have become the norm to the point of being mundane. We have allowed our children and grandchildren to be brainwashed and indoctrinated, in our public school system, into accepting immorality and degeneracy as something to be embraced and esteemed.

The dumbing down of Western society continues at a rapid pace with each new generation becoming ever more rude, crude and lewd then the generation that produced them. We have now become a society that not only idolizes depravity and degenerate behavior, but also a society that appears to either condone or reward mediocrity and failure. Starting back in the late 1960's, parents and society failed in their duty to teach children well. They have allowed their children to accept failure without any lessons learned from failure, and that, therefore, started the long ugly descent into our false sense of entitlement. That is, many people today honestly believe they can do things without consequences because they never suffered before -- so why should it be any different now?

What happened to teaching children about the consequences of actions? What happened to teaching them right and wrong? This dereliction of duty, on the part of parents, led to the failure of our schools to impart a proper education on our children, which has led to more mediocrity in society, reaching to the highest echelons of government.

The saddest thing of all is that not only can we no longer turn to our parents, teachers, political leaders for solace and guidance, but in most cases we cannot even turn to our churches because far too many of them have begun to embrace, accept, tolerate and extol the "virtues" of the same depravity, degeneration and mediocrity that has infested all of secular society.

A morally healthy society does not legalize the slaughter of innocent unborn children.. A morally healthy society does not allow the celebration of sexual depravity. Morally healthy children do not find a need to email pictures of themselves in the nude to their 'friends'. Morally healthy teachers do not have sexual relations with very young underage students. Morally healthy political leaders do not sell out their own countries or financially enslave their own citizens in exchange for votes, campaign donations and self-serving ego boosting. And most of all, morally healthy priests, ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders do not chuck aside the TRUTHS of Holy Scripture to embrace and condone immoral and depraved life-styles and to preach cafeteria-style, feel good about yourself gospels.

How far we have fallen since the days of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Michelangelo, Bernini, Rodin, etc.