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Mark Bisone's avatar

To put it in terms of our honor discussion this afternoon: you could find yourself in a situation that confuses unearned pride and raw ego for honor, and with the wrong set of incentives build an entire subculture out of that.. When you do that, an obvious madman looks like a martyr, and a hero looks like a villain.

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John's avatar

America and most of western society, needs some form of intervention or twelve step program to get back to reality.

I want to blame smart phones and most forms of "social media", but I think they are both offshoots or spinoffs or just the physical manifestation of something much deeper and sinister. (Although if we all disconnected from electronic media for a period if time, we would most likely come out better.)

The cultural rot has definitely accelerated in recent years, but as you've pointed out with the '90's references it isn't new, just easier and faster.

Until more reasonable people can openly discuss the problem, we won't be able to find any solutions.

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