Sure, America has big problems but we’ll overcome them. Americans are resilient. We’ve always bounced back. So goes the optimists’ refrain that the country is not hurtling toward Boomergeddon.
But we’re not the same people we once were, my 83-year-old mother never tires of reminding me. The country has undergone a moral metamorphosis, she says…. for the worse. The rot extends deeper than out-of-control Wall Street greed-heads. It extends deeper than the wanton promiscuity of the under-class. The rot runs broad and deep. View this video footage to see appalling vacuity, insouciance and amorality that cannot be explained away by victimization or special circumstance.
This is where a half-century of moral relativism and situational ethics have gotten us. From the highlights reel:
Q. “Why did you do it?”
A. “Who doesn’t like money?”
Q. “Do you have any remorse from stealing from a nine-year-old girl?”
A. “Right now, no. I’m kind of pissed. I have charges. And we had to give the money back.”
— JAB
