Ingratitude seems to be the prevalent thing these days.
The younger generations are getting all kinds of attention about their outrages views and demands. I needn't repeat the litany of grievances here. It is a totally foreign world from my perspective and life experience. They'd most likely claim that I was privileged, or something like that.
Why so much hatred? Where did this come from? One might assert that it is because of the actions, responses and views held by our previous president. Another might say that such things have been going on forever and that he's only the latest to have sown division across the nation.
Personally, I believe a major reason for the lack of gratitude in our nation is a few major things.
One would be the attitude promoted by today's media in general. The 24/7 news cycle now is constantly harping on murders, fires, lawlessness, corruption, cataclysmic events, etc.
Another reason would be that over the past thirty to forty years, our nation's gone through a rapidly developing culture of affluence. The advent of technological development has fostered an attitude of growing dissatisfaction as to the general feeling in the public about their lives.
Over that same period, our nation has gone through a shift away from religion and the consequential loss of the moral standards which guided us. Part of that shift away from religion has been the demands from various factions in society that demanded the old be made "modern" because the concepts in the Bible were too antiquated and didn't apply to a modern culture; as though modern men/women were somehow different than then.
Our national focus through our news outlets rarely, if only on this day of the year, ever expose us to reasons for which we have a reason to be grateful.
We can only hope that our future will not progress into a greater darkness of tyranny and oppression, the likes which mankind has not seen in centuries.
I am grateful that I've had a full and prosperous life I would wish on everyone else, but only they can make decisions and choices which will determine their future.
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