Society

Society

In this section we're going to focus on what matters in our culture. The way things are going in the United States I was tempted to call this section 'pop culture' rather than society because it sometimes seems to me that we've stopped functioning as a society. Why would I think that?

Have you noticed the types of stories that make the news these days? I'm talking about lead-story, front page stuff. Is Brittany's latest boyfriend really all that important? And how about TV shows like Dancing With the Stars and American Idol? Is it really necessary for Websites and major news outlets to keep America up to date on the contenders for these competitions?

I'm often concerned with why people are so often more interested in entertainment over what might be happening at their own PTA. And I also wonder why more people don't take the time to actually look at what their elected representatives in Washington are up to. There was once a time in this country when the folks elected to congress and the senate actually read and studied legislation before voting on it.

In what appears to be the age of deception from both the blue and the red sides of the isle, it's no longer enough to just vote. It's no necessary to keep track of the people you've voted for and hold them accountable. But I wonder if I'm in the minority thinking this.

Watching society or pop culture or whatever you care to call the activities of our population can be amusing. It's interesting to note that history continues to repeat. Trends are not only trackable but predictable as well. Through history boom periods have inevitably been followed by recessions. These are the cycles of economics.

But these days we here that certain enterprises are too big to fail. So our government takes taxpayer money and gives it to the big banks that literally have the rights to make up the rules as they go. And still they come up short?

And if that's not bad enough, the men and women who ran these financial institutions into insolvency receive 'performance' bonuses. Does anyone else have a problem for rewarding failure with millions of dollars from the taxpayers?

Aside from politics and finance we'll be looking at the ways people cope with the world as they find it. The term social anxiety has become more popular lately. I think the affliction called social anxiety is little more than folks feeling weird because they aren't able to emulate their favorite celebrity or athlete. Or perhaps they've bought into the nonsense dished out by the advertising arms of corporate America and feel inadequate because they don't have pearly white teeth and the latest digital gadget. Oh, what a world.

Sometimes I think we could simplify life pretty easily. And if the majority of us made a practice of what I'm about to outline our society would let out a sigh of relief that would be heard all over the planet. This is a simple premise that is spiritual in nature. It transcends virtually every faith know and it works. If everyone understood and acknowledged and observed this principle we'd be one happy race of people. Here's the nugget. We need to all understand that whatever you do, you do to yourself.

That truth happens to be a slight variation on the Golden Rule, though it's much more direct. Whether we see it clearly or not, the Universe must eventually find balance. So when you realize that your actions come back to you in like kind you you should also realize that if you want good, you need to be about good. Think about it. It's the very first truth realized as far back as civilization goes. And still we have people trying to get around it.

Okay, enough. I've touched upon several prominent issues and promise to return to them and more in future writings. Keep coming back...

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