Esmeralda
Diamond Member
Well, one read through of historic novel "Gone With the Wind," viewing of a Shakespearean play or even a Greek tragedy, and it's pretty evident the sickness started far back in time. The good thing is, our society gives one the option to choose a higher path if desired. And this society is very forgiving. Just look at Anthony Weiner's campaign. People aren't connecting gross computer-related marital infidelity to greed-filled political corruption until the gavel drops on guilty of serial rape-torture-kill or repeat torture-murder-theft. All this requires considerable investigative efforts. By the time the culprit is caught red-handed, society is disinterested. People make bad decisions and use others badly when opportunity presents itself. They cover up these wrongs when they realize it, and blithely allow the onus to fall on someone else if the wrong is a crime and societal demand requires the slaughter of a lamb. Witnesses lie or remember details poorly, which can be changed by suggestion whether purposefully or unwittingly. Suggestions are often taken as gospel under pressure. They don't call it self-fulfilling prophecy for nothing.What a sick world it has become. Beyond our economic and political issues, we have some huge moral and decency problems.
People don't know much about human history if they think this is something new. It's ridiculous to attribute something like this to current events and issues, much less to a current US administration. Women have been treated like this throughout the ages, young women being particularly vulnerable. One reason a girl like this or a girl in the UK is exploited by a sex gang is because they live in a culture that does not limit or control their behavior, so they end up hanging out in the streets, running away from home, etc. It is a dilema because if women are to be free, it means they are also going to be more vulnerable as it appears there will always be men like this, whether they are illegal aliens, legal aliens, members of valued sports teams, or university frat boys.
Historically, the crimes we see today have always been around, it is just that we hear about it more because of the technology of modern media. It also seems to happen a lot because there are so many more people on the Planet than before. Since 1950 the World population has increased from about 2.5 billion to about 7 billiion. The more people there are, the more crime there is, as well, the more people living in less than ideal conditions and cultures that are deterioriating because of that. Plus, with the media broadcasting around the world all these incidents we didn't hear about before, it seems like we are going to hell, but it is really not different than before, it just seems worse.
To blame such events on Obama or any current social or political issue within the US alone is to display a complete lack of historical or world vision.