Using the phrase "sick society" to describe today's society is silly.

[trumad]

First off it's a broad brush, not sure about you but the majority of people I associate with are wonderful.

Are we any sicker than the 50's-60's etc?

We just see it better in the 21st century.

There will never be the perfect Utopian society.

[Silent3]

1. And then there's "What are things coming to!" used with any terrible story...

...as if every such horrible incident is evidence of a worsening trend.

[Adam051188]

2. everything is relative.

i think the phrase "sickest society" might be more applicable.

[KurtNYC]

3. Agreed. The MSM is a carnival mirror that distorts and sensationalizes.

It negatively colors our perception of ourselves by design. TV viewers attention is sold to advertisers who must make the audience feel needy in order to sell them things.

[BlueJazz]

4. What you say is true. I would guess ? it's the 10 % that tend to stir up all the hate and discomfort

Just about everybody I know would be welcome to live in a world I happened to build.

[Orsino]

5. Yeah, society is sicker in some important ways.

The racism and sexism has been generally muted, but the corruption at the highest levels has worsened.

[wandy]

6. At least, to me, one thing has gotten worse..............

The GOP was always shall we say out of touch. No lets say corrupt.
What the GOP has become can give a person fond memories of Nixon.

That, is saying something.

[tridim]

7. Right. Sick, compared to what?

Our previous attempt at evolving as a species on Earth?

We're all on this ride, and it's the first time for every one of us. Some of us move backward, some of us give up, but most of us will move forward.

The Internet exposed lots of bad things nobody knew about before, but it also gives us a tool to make those bad things better.

[trumad]

8. Good post

[RKP5637]

10. Well said! I was going to post almost the same, you did a great job! I think the greatest thing is

we now have better communication among the masses. Before, many events got hidden ... mass communication was limited to TV, radio and newspapers, etc. Personal communication was pretty much limited to face-to-face, phone calls, snail mail and the like.

Now, we have instant global communication. That, in itself, might make things look worse, but there have always been horrific and corrupt evens going on ... in years past they were more easily hidden and/or filtered by MSM.

[raouldukelives]

9. Well, I would say it is a scoiety that I hope doesn't spread by contact. nt

[Bettie]

11. I'd argue that we have two societies right now

A media constructed one, that isn't, at it's heart, real in any sense. It becomes, however, the filter that many see society at large through. It is a carnival mirror that distorts reality to make it almost unrecognizable.

Then there is actual society, the men, women, and children living here.

This is actual society, our reality. For all its warts and imperfections, it is basically the same as it has been since the beginning of time with a few added nuances of the modern age.

In the end, older people decry the next generation, how they are doomed for various reasons. Younger people declare that the older ones don't get it and life goes on in all of its imperfect glory.

Some do extremely well navigating the whole mess, some do terribly. Most of us are in the middle ground of making our way the best we can, trying to avoid or at least recognize the carnival mirror of media for what it is, a distortion of what our society actually is.

Or I could just be a crazy person spouting off on the internets!

[FiveGoodMen]

12. I think you've nailed it.

[cheapdate]

13. I would use the term, only for very different reasons

than the typical ones. I believe the fundamental structure of "civilization" is sick. When masses of people are constrained to live in boxes surrounded by blight, asphalt, and concrete, separated from arable land, cut of from clean water, forced into wage-slavery, while the most conniving, unprincipled, and unscrupulous members of society claim to "own" huge swaths of rich land and all of the rivers, streams, and springs upon it, we're living in a "sick society".

A sick society rewards the immoral and greediest in proportion to how effectively they can degrade the environment and turn the living earth into useless crap.

The whole enterprise is rotten to its core. But what can you do?

[IDemo]

14. Agreed entirely

It's only incorrect to describe the present state of society as "sick" if you consider it to be so exclusively from other eras of "modern civilization".

[MerryBlooms]

15. Instantanious 24/7 media/information at the fingertips

Never before have we had access to so much information... I think that's why people get the impression that humanity has never been so horrible as it is now. I think humans are basically the same as ever, the difference is we choose to expose ourselves to it ALL now. That's why it's so important to get balance in your life-- do things that make you happy. Gardening, family, friends, playing, travel, entertainment, etc... remember to appreciate and partake in the joy and the beauty life has to offer, and don't feel guilty about it.