Being of Service in the Age of America's Decadent Selfishness

Being of Service in the Age of America's Decadent Selfishness:

A large swath of our country, both young and old, have lost the value of selfless service and lost the ability to understand why service is important. Instead, Americans, like the Romans at the pinnacle of their descent into social disorder in the 4th and 5th century, wallow and bathe in an overabundance of luxury, pleasure, and careless disregard for the well being and betterment of those around them. This decadence, compounded with the confusion of ideas, mass deception, and distortion of the people's understanding of reality, is contributing to an accelerated decline of the social fabric.

We have become money-worshipers. Our music talks about the love of wealth, our media uses sex and drugs and glamour to sell products, and it is preached by many in our culture that selfishness is king, and if you can't keep up, then you will have to fend for yourself.

This ethos is completely unsustainable in the long term socially and politically. Selfishness only leads to a breakdown of the system that got you your wealth, your women/men, and your lifestyle. This is because the more people you leave behind, whether to rot in the streets addicted to drugs or having their health problems going untreated or the people you sold short and said they'd never amount to anything, the more unstable, unsanitary, and unforgiving your society becomes.

This leaves room for the spread of diseases because of the unsanitary conditions the impoverished and homeless end up being forced to live in. This also leads to serious resentment to the disenfranchisement the poor and underprivileged are forced to suffer through, which leads to violence and vengeful action.

The primary, and most important, solution to these social detriments is selfless service. Selfless service that leads your population to think about the well-being of others instead of only just thinking about themselves. We should encourage behavior and actions that help clean up our cities and slums, help sick people get treatment, and help heal the broken heart of this nation and its people. In the military, they have a policy that is quite paralleled for what I am describing. It's simple. You leave no man behind.

Since wars are not just reserved for foreign soil, we are fighting wars amongst the territories of our own country. Wars against drugs. Wars against slavery. Wars against poverty. Wars against abuse. In war, you leave no man behind. We should apply that same principle to how we treat our children, our poor, our sick, and our veterans. We should leave no one behind.

Also, stop worshiping wealth, sex, and drugs.

That is all.