SOCIETY DOWNFALL
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It is my firm belief, if not fact that our US society has been on a constant decline. Our freedom is our greatest asset, yet our greatest enemy.
The strides in technology our country has set are literally astronomical. Our technology has brought us from a "wheel" to reaching "unknown planets". At the same time technology is asset, it is also enemy.
Society has went from having "electricity" to having cell phones, computers, Internet, Cable TV, machines that can keep someone alive. The more we invent technology, the more we enable ourselves. Technology is our greatest capability, yet our greatest downfall.
I believe technology is the greatest friend of our society's rising obesity rate. With something always on TV or the Internet, who wants to exercise? Treadmills went from manual to computerized with TV monitors built in to influence people to use them!
We have went from excercising to burn calories to taking diet pills to burn calories. The marketing is, "take enough excercise supplements and you won't have to exercise"! There is almost a pill for everything you can imagine, except "cancer".
Our US prison population is continually risen. We lead the "world" in prison population. In the end of 2007, the US had a "record" 7.2 million people on parole, in jail, or on probation. More than 1 in 100 American adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008.
In a "distant" second behind our US incarceration rate is "China" with 1.5 million incarceration rate in 2008. Heres the problem, China has "FOUR" times the "US Population". China has an "18%" incarceration rate compared to us. If these numbers do not jump out at any US citizen, we are failing to learn.
In my belief, one of the main reasons for our rising prison population is failure to prepare. Life is a true test of will, yet how many parents prepare their children for the "test of life"? If a child is not prepared for the war of life, they will be set to lose the battle.
Thank You for Reading.
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Hello Healthcare.
Thank You for reading and commenting.
Great information and soldier thank you for protecting us from harm and serving our country. You should check out the poem I wrote to our soldiers entitled freedom, it is in there somewhere amongs the articles. Thank you again and without all of you we would not be free. :)
Hello AEvans,
That would be "marine" not "soldier" lol. I'm not in the marines anymore, however it is uplifting to see your appreciation of our military.
Thank You, I appreciate you reading.
Happy Memorial Day! I agree with your thoughts in this Hub. Another, though smaller, reason we are so fat might be the rise of the suburb. In old movies you see people walking to the grocer, the butcher, the bakery, the dentist, the local movie theatre and so on. In the suburbs one drives everyplace. All that walking was good for us.
Hello James.
Thanks for the kind words.
The more and more technology reliable we get, the worse we seem to get. We are getting smarter, yet at the same time, in a sense, we are getting dumber. lol
Interesting.
Society is in decline, in general. And its not technology--its apathy, consumerism, buy, buy, bye!
We can go to other planets, but just barely. Why? Because I want me a new iPhone! Kids are getting obese, a lot of people are, actually...and it has a lot to do with these technologies, sure, but what about the Wii? Or DDR?
At the end of the day, its the over processed foods that are manufactured and made so we can consume them as soon as the microwave dings.
At home or at a fast food resturant. Great thoughts, however, I am not inclined to disagree...but the devil is in the details, as they say.
G|M
Hello Generique, Thank You for reading and commenting.
I agree that we are a fast food nation. I eat quite a bit of fast food. I believe diet can be countered by exercise on most occasions. Certainly diet is a huge part of the problem.
Thank You for your perspective.
I believe that our technology has played the main role in being "dependent".
Hey, it is so true and its throughout the western word, and creeping into other parts as well.
Remember as kids we went OUTSIDE and played? We had no issue of nothing to do because we reached level 7 on our gameboy!
I'm interested in your thoughts of the tech influence in the conflict situation. It has certainly altered what warfare is all about. Its no longer just throwing rocks. Is this contibutory to the elusiveness of the Taliban, and the like?
Its not the harware that wins the battle - Its the sailor/soldier/airman - and Marine, inside that counts.
Hello Sailaway , Thank You for Reading/Commenting.
I'm interested in your thoughts of the tech influence in the conflict situation. It has certainly altered what warfare is all about. Its no longer just throwing rocks. Is this contibutory to the elusiveness of the Taliban, and the like?
Technology is making huge progress in war as well. We have those "drone planes" that are rigged with cameras. They have recently began rigging them with weapons also. Kinda like on the movie "Stealth".
The drone planes are operated by remote control from inside an office. This could possibly "eliminate" or drastically reduce the need for troops on the ground.
I believe that war in the future will be "mostly" technology based. This can be good and bad. I do not know the outcome. I can only see from our current reliability on technology. The more "dependent" on technology we become, it seems as if we get "stupid" in my belief.
If we have computers to answer all of a persons questions, will that person really "search" for the answers when the computer has already found them?
Thank You
HealthCare Basics says:
7 months ago
Good point on technology and so true.