“(..) decline of morality in the west”
- I’m not so sure there has been a decline of morality in the West.
One thing I know for sure is that work ethics have been restored here in Sweden during the last 20 years.
I have worked together with a lot of people in the age of 20-25 lately and they clearly display a better work ethics than my generation did that age (I’m 42).
There is hope for both Europe and America. Never forget about this.
No? Seems to me in the US, legalized abortion is new and far more frequent, fornication, illegitimacy, guess it's how you define morality. Won't mention some other things. Always been hypocrisy and a double standard.
That's interesting about work ethics. Don't see it here. You're quite a bit younger than me. My children are your age and their friends (and they pulled a lot of stuff I wouldn't have dared, not that I didn't mess up in a few ways). My son works his tail off with the second business he's started, and both my daughters are on food stamps, one on welfare. But my son likes to spend the fruits of his labor in lavish living now that is alien to me.
My son is sweet if he thinks of me he's so busy. Stopped by with a $100 dinner from some business thing. Strange food but I'll eat most anything if I can chew it and get it down. That made me think some places we went to for a treat are probably $100 a plate or more now. I was specifically thinking of Tarantino's on fisherman's Wharf. Our family of four (and possibly 2 guests) had a table near the windows on the left piers side IIRC, my first experience of swordfish. I looked it up on the internet, and they are still there all these years later, little has changed, but I don't think I'd be comfortable paying what it probably is now.
I'm glad you think there is hope.