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M-L, as you said, at every culture......there is a constant search for beauty and artistic expression (often religious) that characterizes each society.

It appears, that the society we live in today no longer has that thirst for 'beauty and artistic expression'. As you said so accurately, “Junk” is the epitome of our culture."

A large portion of our culture today, is the 'entitlement society'. Many thousands of babies that are not destroyed before birth are raised by a single mother.

The government actually pays these women more money per month, for each fatherless child born. Then, to add to the reinforcement of this abhorition, the government also hands out food stamps and free 'everything'.

These children are not being raised to be responsible adults, with goals, responsibility, self-discipline, pride or a quest for 'beauty'. Instead, they are being raised to believe the 'world owes them'.

Then, at the opposite side of our society today, we have the abortion issue. Thousands upon thousands of babies are aborted every year. Babies that could have been given a good home (through adoption) to a responsible mother and father; babies that may have been the next Beethoven, Einstein, DaVinci or Shakespeare.

I know this is a very simple phrase, but I call it, "The Dumbing Down of America".