Where are we headed?

My heart is truly torn. I honestly wonder sometimes if there are any decent people left in the world, or at least in this nation. I know of course that there are decent people, but they seem to have become so complacent that they don't have a voice. The running gag used by professional journalists referring to protesters attending tea parties as "tea baggers" was outrageous. In most professions comments like that would get you fired, but instead I see the gag branching out into different areas in the media. I see people condoning the use of the term and laughing at it. It is a vial, perverse reference that has no business on prime time news.

Another case and point, I was on a date with my lovely bride and the hostess seated us near the bar. A small group near by were talking in loud voices and cursing in some very vulgar and crude language. A few people looked bothered by it but no one was saying anything. The waitresses didn't bother to say anything either. Finally, I took it upon myself to say something. The young man was absolutely puzzled that anyone would be offended at his language. I think I can understand why. I do hear vulgar language at work, at school, and often out in public. Movies before the 90s never used the F-word accept in rated R movies, and now it is common for it to find its way into a PG-13 movie. Where is the outrage? Where are the letters? Why are we not standing up against this?

I have heard that the first sign of a decaying civilization is the language, and I believe it. Our parents that lived 100 years ago had a far superior command of the language in comparison with what is available to us today. I wonder that we can think at all. Does an individual that speaks with the gutter tong actually have cognitive thought processes or is it more like the audible grunts and growls that come out of their mouths. I am at a loss. Oh, if only I had a voice, but I will post this here and who will read it? We are handing our future over to children that know no bounds. They are not required to exercise any constraint. They have tested their will against societies bounds and found that society is weak. A world without constraint is a world without order. A world without order is a world that cries out for tyranny. A world were individuals exercise self constraint will all ways throw off despotism because, they have no use for its strict and oppressive rules. In other words rule yourself or be prepared to be ruled by someone else. Remember this quote, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke