In the 80’s and 90’s of the last century there was more importance placed on how we treated one another, especially the poor. Human rights violations had the attention of the free world, and would garner the attention of the media through organizations like Amnesty International. We are currently living in a culture now that places more importance on money, status and power, and lacking these, your voice goes largely unheard. Corporations have a monopoly on our economy and work hand in hand with the government, which makes the agenda of the powerful more important than those who have nothing. In the past, religious groups were more respected because they truly were there to help the vulnerable and the poor, but now what money politics has done is persecuted some religions throughout the world, and as a result the poor are suffering. They use the social agenda of the rich to feed an unhealthy balance of power, and pour more and more money into war, thus feeding the destruction of th
When we are children we are dependent on others to meet our needs and when we don’t get something we want we get upset. The problem is that we have a whole generation of adults who have not learned the lessons of selflessness. We are told now that if we aren’t looking after number one, then there is something wrong with us. We are being taught that our needs are more important than other’s needs, and adults act like children now, trying to control and manipulate others in order to get their needs met. It’s all about a rights society that we even try to control all aspects of society, government etc. until we get our deserts before dinner. We are not learning the lessons that previous generations learned, that we are interdependent and we need to live our lives in an unselfish way. When there is a limited amount of cookies at a party, we should be learning how to share, not petition the party host to go out and buy an abundance of cookies for everyone, even though it might be a hardsh