in response to friedapplepie... Well, Fried, you didn't read what I said that blindly following the crowd -- as the Germans did rather than rationally considering almost EVERYTHING has serious problems. We so called higher-order humans have the ability to consider variables relating to choices, but many sheeplike follow the herd and don't--there is no logic to preferring roses to snapdragons it's a preference but most situations have a better and worse choice.
Right and wrong to me relates to adaptively or MALadaptivety, using meth is maladaptive in that it disables significant portions of one's brain making it difficult to rationally process information. Adaptive is eating foods that have been found to be good for you and then there's the many things that don't really matter such as piercings, tats, Day-Glo hair, driving strange vehicles, wearing odd clothes, even not mowing your lawn weekly etc.
What I see about the world going to ruin is a wide topic: it is better in that there is less prejudice toward many that was, While our affluency is spreading to many countries with good and bad effects and there is bad, REALLY BAD! we have severely polluted the environment to the point that we are having storms like we haven't had almost forever! we have more people incarcerated than any other country, The cost of higher education is such that only children from affluent families can afford it. True, one can get a loan but upon graduation, there's not a job that will enable you to pay for it . A high percentage of those in prison and jails are there for NON victim crime, We have gone from a nation that exported goods and exploited other countries for their natural resources, now the reverse is true. this means that there aren't jobs for our children that have any future so any job doesn't matter in that one can get another that's just as bad.
Oh yes, 10% of our population is now involved in killing and being killed for Uncle Sam (yes I did my time in the Navy)
You're right, things ARE REALLY much worse and they'll probably become more so as our trained killers come home with PTSD and other brain injuries.
Google PTSD and see if you want that person who's now homeless without a job with a gun next door?
I can go on with several more pages but this is more than you probably can hear and a massive percentage of women and a few men increasing their breasts doesn't matter with what does!