I no longer feel all alone. Rutgers New York of all places has joined me on this bus that seems to be going nowhere. HLN even reported it. Comforting and warm, like the light on is all it feels like. Civility they call it. Squelching the fires of rudeness, which has all too recently been scorching the earth, humanity.
Today, sitting in the barber chair, a now stronger tradition on Sunday's than Church, or even Football, I saw the awe-striking developments with my beloved Robin Meade. Apparently I'm not the only one who has not just noticed the rapid decline of how we treat each other in public, but I'm not the only one who cares to do something about it. Rutgers University is implementing a program to help people become more aware of their actions. Decrease their rudeness and help at least a small section of this world return to grandeur days of compassion and consideration of those who surround us, ie. you and I.
The idea that we can return to a more civil society is certainly daunting. In recent years, with technology and convenience having such an effect on a day to day lifestyles, it's hard to imagine putting any effort into being kinder and more caring for one another, let alone strangers, and even with the possibility of actually helping one another out. It's certainly not a popular idea.
Shows on television that the youth of our nation watch so emphatically whether to live by or make fun of still have such an irrefutable effect on the way we view acceptable across society. We have so called "icons" who are nothing but detrimental to society and feel like no rules apply to them based on our praise and their holiness because of that. The Jersey Shore crew, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan. These are individuals that should not even be considered people. They give nothing to society. They have no positive affluence on the way Americans should live their lives. And yet, we praise and prod and encourage this kind of behavior. Some even live to be exactly the same.
To stop this cascading, rolling, picking up steam, time bomb, avalanche is not going to be easy. It's hard to imagine and I doubt very highly that we've allowed that many stupid people, that verge of idiocracy to creep so heavily into the lead train of thought for our nation. I know that's not the majority of how people think or want to act, or even treat others. But the majority is silent and bending, and willing to let the minority groups benefit as a whole, willing to suffer for the better of the few than the better of the many. California is getting rid of metal baseball bats in High School Baseball because of one instance where a kid was killed by a line drive.
Our fore-fathers are rolling in their graves. We created a society, a government that was for the people. The majority of people. Not to make a rule for every exception, to protect every single person, but to protect what is best for everybody. If we stopped doing things, made it illegal, mitigated all the risks in everything that you could do that you could possibly die doing; what could you do? Live in a plastic bubble that never moved.
So how do you reverse the flux? How do you get the water back in the tank, stop the flush. Society is headed for a terrible demise in this country if we don't start doing something now. Eliminate the extremists on both the left and the right could considerably help. The tea party'ers, the Koran burners, the soccer moms, and liberals? As nice as it would be to Lord of the Flies them onto an island, we have to use more ethical means of extermination. Make the voice of the many what it should always be. Loud. Call shotgun, and driver too. Get out of the backseat and be heard. We let the voice of the few out ring the voice of the many.
It's time to start singing.
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