We have similar existential issues here ... children with sweatshop iPods building Facebook lives, a population distracted by TV and media propaganda picking sides in a phony Kabuki theater of Democrat versus Republican, a government disconnected from its responsibilities and existing only as a shell of pretense and pretend, functioning only as a cancer killing freedom and our financial future.
Ethics ate situational, morals are relative, "all cultures are equal" ... the idea of "core values" is scoffed at by professors and politicians and preachers. We have no compass, no rudder, no direction.
But we are fragmenting along some very real cultural lines, and the unprepared will see horrors in the near future.
Very well put.