LogFAQs > #965561232

GreenKnight127 posted...

Thousands of years ago...you would embrace people who held similar RELIGIOUS beliefs...and moral VALUES.

That's part of it, but thousands (or even hundreds) of years ago you probably only knew 10-100 people total. You couldn't alienate people because there were only a couple of them and you were likely going to know them for your entire life. With the internet you can piss of a million people so long as your five friends will still have you.

But yes, a primary weakness of today's society is that everyone seems happy to tear down (or at least leave) organizations and institutions that provided community (churches, Mason/Shriner type things, etc) without replacing them. Social media fills the void, but that's worse than nothing.

Did churches/etc have issues? Most certainly: everyone can easily list the things that outrage themselves the most, and they certainly had/have no monopoly on truth. But there was great value there as well. The loss of a shared identity is the biggest problem with western society: we're just a bunch of individuals with no real purpose now. We all end up feeling alienated, and those who have mental issues as well have little holding them back from doing terrible things like school shootings. Communities and religion used to suppress that.

So yeah.