I guess it is just the nature of things that previous generations sometimes regard the current generation with some consternation and a little bit of wariness. Your music sucks, your clothes suck and so do your popular new values. In spite of that, we have apparently survived culturally. Until now, maybe. From the time I was a little kid, probably up to my late forties or so, I think certain things were commonly shared in American culture. Things like fair play, honesty and integrity were values that most of us still believed were core. Decorum was important too. It was generally considered a social good to be polite and well-spoken. Even if you didn’t believe in God, most people thought that you should treat other people the same way you wanted to be treated because there was something intrinsic to our nature that told us it was just right.

Today a lot of those things seem to have been flipped over on their heads. From the top. Congresspeople freely use the Seven Dirty Words that you could never say on television…on television. Men routinely clobber their female opponents in women’s sports. Kids in grade school are taught that their homeland is an evil bastion of racists and oppressors. And people freely support actual murderers when the right kind of person gets murdered. 

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson deserved to die because he was the CEO of an insurance company. Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wasn’t a terrorist-murderer because he had shaggy curls the ladies found cute. He was actually a freedom fighter. And Karmelo Anthony got $270,000 worth of love from GiveSendGo.com. The site has been taken down now, but an internet search implores one to support Karmelo Anthony’s Fight for Justice……(Like, he admittedly stabbed another kid in the heart over nothing. What sort of Justice does Karmelo want?)

In Seinfeld-speak, we are living in Bizarro World. And how in the hell did we get here?