A World Going To the Dogs?

It would appear that a great many people including a lot of the right wing variety, whether new and improved, enriched or right wing-ultra, are worried that their concept of American values or call it just plain goodness is giving way to a less virtuous society. One that doesn't hold the promise that existed for them. Therefore they expend considerable energy building dams to hold back the perceived deadly torrent of a society gone awry. Because their engineers share the same flawed thinking, they don't sufficiently understand nor calculate the force behind the dam properly, they use poor materials and to top it all off they put the dams in the wrong places. Remember the torrent of Rock and Roll and the devil music dam. Or the torrent of integration-way to many dams to talk about here.
Currently the torrent seems to at least include gay marriage or whatever you choose to call or not call it. I thought a lot about whether this next bit is important or not but for the sake of revealing bias I decided to include it. I'm not gay and don't have gay friends. OK, now what is my personal opinion on the subject? A big fat emphatic "Who Cares." This is no more bad behavior than me taking my next breath. It's a ghost. It's people thinking their drowning in an inch of water. Ten years from now it will be less significant than say, the Y2K problem if you remember what that was. I'm by no means saying society does not need to be tended to. Bad behavior is everywhere and shouldn't be tolerated but, it should be thought of and addressed individually. This other approach is unproductive and can be counterproductive.
What is necessary is a united front against bad behavior, within and across all people. This is how to secure and share in the promise of a good life.
I recently spoke with a petite 80 something year old woman who had been plucked out of her small town in Tennessee at a very early age by TWA Airlines to be a stewardess."They recruited small girls back then to fit into the DC 3s and 4s," she explained. She said her mom wasn't happy about it but it was too good of an opportunity to say no. She said she was far less unhappy about it than her mom and headed to Los Angeles. She said she was quite apprehensive when she got there because her mom had said so many times that the new generation is going to the dogs.
One clue, when examining an issue, if your reasons against include the explanation or even the thought "It just ain't right," then cut your losses because it's probably just the tedious drone of " The new generation is going to the dogs."