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What Is Wrong With Our Society?
gunpaq
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Yesterday I had a short visit with my mother who lives a little further up the road from our farm which is surrounded by new housing developments. Most of the new residents living in the developments are reasonably well-to-do business types from Philly and suburbs. I have gotten used to the upscale SUVs, BMWs, etc., and joggers, power walkers and bicyclist 24-7 all decked out in the latest LL Bean, but I cannot get used to their new culture that they have brought to the area. The culture of detachment. For example, while visiting with my mother in her front yard, no less than 8 people passed by on foot on the road not more than 15 yards away, all looking down or staight ahead (one was reading a book and another let her dog crap in the corner of the yard while another saw fit to pull up a maple sapling from our fence row to plant at his home) without looking at us, acknowledging us saying "Hi" or returning a waive hello. They were and are all just like robots. Now I don't care who or where these people are from nor does there have to be a personal relationship or their names even known, but when you are a neighbor, live in the area, or frequent an area or neighborhood, is it not customary to acknowledge someone when they say hello or waive to you? These people walk by and drive by like the people in the original movie "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers", no emotion and no acknowledgement of anything not directly affecting them. I have to get out of this area before it is too late - THEY ARE HERE AND TAKING OVER. I thought that field of soybeans I planted last year had unusually large bean pods.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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Now it's "every man for himself" and nobody cares what you feel. It only matters if it affects them.
My gun is prettier than yours, and it's a Glock!
I will comment, however, on the lack of morals and general decency nowadays. Granted I'm not the youngest (nor by any means the oldest) but I have been around and have lived in enough places to see a difference.
I grew up waving at strangers when we would walk down the side of the road as kids, say hello tip your hat or whatever to women and seniors, and the like. I don't know where our society has us heading, but I, for one, don't like it. It's a sad day when you hold the door open for an older woman, smile and say hi, and she just looks at the ground and walks by because the youth (and other trash of any age) have her scared of her own shadow.
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to breed
***It is not so much what a man possesses, but what possesses the man which determines his quality of life.***
But I live in a simular situation. Where I live used to be all farms, but as urban sprawl encroaches, city folk are buying up the property, and building little mansions. When I go to the local restuarant, you can really see the differences between the city folk and the locals.
I used to hunt a property, that was bordered by several estates that city people lived in. One day I was packing up after hunting, and one of the neighbors pulled up next to me, in the biggest BMW I have ever seen. I said hello, and he did not return the salutation. He then asked me what I was doing, and I told him I was finishing up hunting. Without saying anything, he pointed to the "No hunting" sign that was next to me. I turned and looked at it, and said nothing, and went back to my business. He then asked me if I see the signs. I responded "YUP". He then told me I was not allowed to hunt there. I told him I was the one who put the signs up, and that the signs were directed at everyone EXCEPT ME. I explained that he could not hunt there(though it was obvious he was not a hunter) anyone else cant hunt there, and only I could hunt there. He then said that he has horses on the bordering property, and would prefer it if I would not hunt here. I explained I was not concerned about his preferences,that I noticed his horses do come on the property, and he should make sure they stay off the property,because his property is tresspassing. I then explained to him that he does not have to worry 'bout me shooting his horses, cause I hadnt mistaken a horse for a deer in two years. I was being a smart *, but it took him awhile to realize that. He then drove away.
Happiness is a warm gun
Let's all be kind to someone today ... even if they don't deserve it or make that ESPECIALLY if they don't desserve it.
Ken
The REAL question is: What is the solution to what is wrong with society?
Ken
I have moved over 20 times in my life and I've lived everywhere from rural outback to inner-city and I can tell you the city-folk are just plain RUDE and MEAN and SELFISH. I really can't stand them.
I had a guy yesterday who parked right in front of my house (on the street) when I was trying to cut my grass. I politely asked him to move up a spot or two, since he had a brand new Lincoln Navigator and I didn't want to mess it up with my edger. He did not say one single word to me and just looked aggrivated as hell, but finally decided to move it. Next time I'm not even going to say anything. If he wants to risk his vehicle I'm cool with that.
Jerks...
(Thanks, just venting a little)
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PC=BS
Sheeple.
Stand And Be Counted
I use to live in the country and know exactly where you are coming from. HOWEVER, I live in the city now, by definition, since I live on a post wherever I go. While not exactly being the city, it still is the same type of life. If I say hello to everyone that walks by my house while I sit outside talking to my neighbors, enjoying the weather, I wont be able to enjoy the company, or the weather, there are that many people, I have no idea what the people look like around my neighborhood. I could be saying hello all night, to people that are or are not my neighbors, not that it would matter, but you get the picture. When we lived in the country, there were few and far in between vehicles that traveled up and down the road, so we waved. The same goes for people that occasionally may walk by, though if they did, they were probably out of gas. If I waved at every vehicle that passed by today, I'd have tennis elbow. When country people go to town they go in, are there a short time, and leave to go home. Holding a couple doors open while they are there is no problem to most of them. To the people from the city that live there, who spend all their time in buildings, going to and fro, shoot, they'd start racking up frequent door holding miles in less than a week, and anyone would get sick of that, quickly, especially since few people do it in return these days, although you do see it frequently if you look for it, it just might not be for you. As far as the bad experience of having city people move into the country goes, listen to this a sec. I use to live on a country block, about 360 acres. There was only one farm house on it when we built there. We bought our twenty acres from another fellow who had bought 40 and built a house. Thats makes 3 houses now. The fellow who originally lived there by himself, was probably thinking the same as all of you. I went back a while back, and now there are over twenty houses on that block. I use to think of myself as the country people, and I hate it that those other houses are there, but they are only doing the same thing we did, inadvertently ruining the land with their houses, but who knows, they may be just like I was, real nice people, trying to get away from the CITY people. Our society has problems, no doubt, I hate all people, as a rule, and grow to like a few. Just dont forget, you too are living where there once was no home, and it was the country. That doesnt make you city people, it makes you human. We can all live in the city, but keep the country life ethics, its just hard to do it on the same scale as when we lived in the country. When I retire from the Corps, I want to go live somewhere isolated, build a house in the middle of nowhere, and people will say, here come the city people. They could not be more wrong.
SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
smaller, due to the proliferation of things like the internet,cell
phones etc.,our local communities have suffered.Paranoia over climbing
crime rates,and the increased competition in the job market,has many
Americans thinking in ruthless,competative terms.This is,I feel a result of the corporatizing of our beloved nation.With people not connecting on a personal,community level,people will not be able
to connect and organize on a political level.The net result is the
power of government moves from the hands of the people,to the boa
constricter like grip of corporations,and special intrests.
The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
I think the truth is that our culture is a failure. It is morally bankrupt. Look at what defines the successful, influential man in our culture: He is well to do, and politically powerful. He looks out for himself and maybe his family. By contrast, the "valuable" man of the Lakota 150 years ago was a man who captured many horses, then gave what he did not need to widows and families with few men. He was a warrior who faught a rearguard action, while the people moved away from the conflict. He was a hunter who fed his family and gave the excess to the families of injured hunters, to widows, to old folks. He was in short, a man who was the exact oposite of the successful man in our culture. At a tribal level, he was responsible for the social welfare of all the people. His word in council was the word of one man. Others might agree and follow, but some might not. He had no power or authority over any other man (though he certainly did his wife/wives). I would argue that for our emotional and physical well being, that a tribal level of organization (where we spent our first million years or so) is the optimal level of social organization for humans, and to the extent that small towns and rural areas act like tribes, the members are better off. This can also happen in urban neighborhoods, but is less likely because there is more trancience, and fewer multigenerational relationships among the people. It is also almost gone.
SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
I know all my neighbors.
I know all their kids.
I know all their trucks.
I know all thier property lines.
I know all their cows.
I know what each one of their dogs sound like.
I know when their having a babeque.
I know when their kids do good.
I know when their kids do wrong.
I know when they loose a relative.
I know who is sick.
I know who needs help.
I know who needs no help.
I know who has cold beer.
I know who has cold pop.
I know where I can get help.
I know they all know the same about me.
I love the country.
Yesterday I had a short visit with my mother who lives a little further up the road from our farm which is surrounded by new housing developments. Most of the new residents living in the developments are reasonably well-to-do business types from Philly and suburbs. I have gotten used to the upscale SUVs, BMWs, etc., and joggers, power walkers and bicyclist 24-7 all decked out in the latest LL Bean, but I cannot get used to their new culture that they have brought to the area. The culture of detachment. For example, while visiting with my mother in her front yard, no less than 8 people passed by on foot on the road not more than 15 yards away, all looking down or staight ahead (one was reading a book and another let her dog crap in the corner of the yard while another saw fit to pull up a maple sapling from our fence row to plant at his home) without looking at us, acknowledging us saying "Hi" or returning a waive hello. They were and are all just like robots. Now I don't care who or where these people are from nor does there have to be a personal relationship or their names even known, but when you are a neighbor, live in the area, or frequent an area or neighborhood, is it not customary to acknowledge someone when they say hello or waive to you? These people walk by and drive by like the people in the original movie "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers", no emotion and no acknowledgement of anything not directly affecting them. I have to get out of this area before it is too late - THEY ARE HERE AND TAKING OVER. I thought that field of soybeans I planted last year had unusually large bean pods.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
That sounds just like Houston, TX. Every time I visit, them darn robots are everywhere. No smiles, no one makes eye contact with you. I'm used to Beaumont (The City of A**Holes) where at least they acknolidge you with a finger.... In China, TX where I'm from before I moved to Beaumont, TX people you didn't even know would always waive as you drove down the road. Just friendly people. If you were jogging, and got hot, you could ask the closest house if you could use their water hose, no problem, and then back on you way. Always a smile, everyone friendly and curtious. If you knock on someones door in Beaumont and ask to use their hose, they think you nuts...
I just wish I had a dollar for every gun I wanted, then I'd be a rich man.