The technologies of First World nations are eroding social traditions.
Thirty years ago, if you liked to watch other people have sex, you were publicly labeled a pervert or peeping tom. Now we can use our phones and computers to record and view anything.
It is illegal to grow natural plants but everyone is encouraged to take their pills. Drink their booze.
Privacy was sacred, it caused President Nixon to resign. Bush II violated every possible aspect of privacy in his defense of terrorism... and President Obama supports continuing the extreme and total surveillance.
G.W. Bush continues to live unchallenged and unpunished for his lies and violations. President Clinton faced a Congressional Inquiry because a woman touched his penis. Ralph Nader is still shut out of debates.
The morality involved in the value of each human life has been obscured by the alleged effectiveness of surgical strikes and predator drones.
It is tragic that the same culture capable of harnessing electricity
allows it to harm us in ways human beings never could.