Moral decline or shamelessness?

[Boss Hawg]

Are we living in a society in the middle/end of moral decline? Or, are we in a society where people have always been this amoral but now people are without shame? Or neither?

 

[Smug]

More people are acting amorally, and more people are being shamelessly amoral. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that everyone's always been secretly edgy nihilists and masking their feelings to play along with the zeitgeist of their era, because that simply isn't the case. Exposure to the Internet seems to eventually sap most people of belief in nearly anything it feels like. It's certainly unprecedented territory in the history of any human society.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Mere Internet exposure of what always has existed.

 

[Hepativore]

The only thing that has changed is that in the past, the village idiot, or town drunk and their opinions were laughed at or ignored, but now the internet has given them a Facebook page or YouTube channel.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Tomato, tomato.

 

[Feefee81093]

Sodam and Gamora is definitely happening. The Bible was right.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

I'm not so sure any more. Ten years ago, I would have totally agreed with anyone saying it's just that the Internet gives every retard a chance to express themselves to the world in whatever way they wish. In any other era, Internet or not, these people would be laughed at and not taken seriously. Today though, every major institution not only embraces their absurdities, but demands you do too, even trying to make you compromise yourself in doing so. Even the people who should be opposed to them rarely show any backbone, even when children are being cut up.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I think it's down to Cultural Homogenization combined with a message of "Just be your self" playing out, pretty much every wider cultural trend is pre-packaged, tested and refined by about 10 corporations from music to art and food it's absurdly regulated, and the only way a lot of people have of bucking that trend and being "unique" is to find the more accessible edges of society and this is especially prevalent in the 30's and under group and it's leading to a lot of people doing what little rebellious self expression they have available to them to excess.

This isn't going to improve any time soon and it's going to get worse, the best way to deal with it is to honestly be yourself and enjoy being you and don't pay attention to whatever is getting shovelled into the feed trough of wider society.