Who is minding the store?

How is it the more we advance the less we seem to become? The more gadgets we acquire the dumber we seem to get? We seem to excel at revelry and sex at the expense of everything else, and the pursuit of these things have cost us community and family life and left the kids alone to deal with the things that go bump in the night. Our national celebration has given way to the exploitation of little girls and the sexing up of our young generation in a misguided notion of freedom. That is not freedom. Action without responsibility simply displaces the consequences onto someone else or a future date, leaving us with little substance after the glitter fades. We have traded romance and courting for hooking up and mobile phone sex videos. Why?
Our generation and the ones before us will have a lot of questions to answer when these young ones grow up and realize just how much they were short changed. How gym memberships at fourteen for vanity training is madness.
Sorry to be the one to throw cold water on this but not only do we need to sober up, we need to grow up. The unwritten rule of society requires that the baton be passed and we’re it. It is our job to set the moral pattern of this society, establish norms, carry on traditions, and prepare the next generation for their turn. History has shown us that we are going to reap whatever we sow, so we should sow good seed. Respect for self and others, industry, personal values, family, community, church, school. Our kids are failing due to lack of guidance, and we are the ones letting them down. It starts with you...check yourself. Forget what anybody else is doing. Take care of your business. Lead by example. When there are enough of us minding the store, the situation will start to right itself, I am sure of it.