Are we living in the me era?

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What do you think? Is this the era of selfishness?
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I don’t think selfishness properly describes it. I think it’s more along the lines of unabashed hedonism combined with a antagonistic view toward responsibility and personal accountability, and an undying devotion to secularism. There’s no peppy catchphrase to sum that up, though. I have a friend who spent her entire pregnancy bemoaning the fact that the “thing” inside of her was preventing her from getting falling-down, blacking-out drunk, and most of her family was sympathetic and supportive of this attitude. I think she kind of sum things up.
 
Luvz2travel said:
What do you think? Is this the era of selfishness?
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It has always been the “me” era.
Remember that the Old Greeks threw the deficient babies down the scarp.
That there were times when there were slaves without rights.
And long, long time ago, there were cannibals.
And Salomon had 300 wives and 1000 concubines.
In Old Japan, sons would take their old parents up the mountain to let them die there.

Could this be a better and less selfish society ? Yes. But let us remember other times and other places.
 
I think we are stuck in a society that values hedonism above all else.

Have other societies been as bad? Sure. Does that make it any better? No.
 
I’ve been hearing that for the last 5 decades but …yeah it does seems to fit now more than ever.
 
I think the difference is technology. Before recently, people had to work a lot harder just to stay alive, and they needed one another a lot more. Technology has allowed us to become free agents, totally self-interested, with our stuff and our electronics to keep us company.
 
Luvz2travel said:
What do you think? Is this the era of selfishness?
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Sort of. It is an era that would best be described as “post-God” or “the divinity of mankind” or the “supremacy of science”. And it’s on a grand scale too.

Some of the major consequences of this are hedonism, selfishness, and a sophisticated denial of the existence of sin (and its effects). These have become self-perpetuating in the culture and its institutions (schools, courts, universities, public events, etc.). Basically, the progressives of the late 19th century and early 20th century essentially won out. We’re dealing with the results.
 
IMO it’s the primary characteristic of man’s fallen nature: Me First!

Thus, it’s always been a problem to greater and lesser degrees. The problem today is that more and more people (on BOTH sides of the political spectrum) are rationalizing this as a GOOD thing rather than a bad one.

The left side pushes personal moral license, the right economic moral license.
 
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