Topic: What is wrong with today's society? (Read 768 times)

" What is wrong with today's society? "


Humans are complicated and I agree that we really should be doing much better because we are capable.
There is a good book out right now that may help provide some perspective.
 

Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
 

^^^ In other words, it is people who are deceiving themselves.     

Throughout life, people are deceived.Previously, secretly deceived now almost openly.Capitalism has done its job.He managed to cultivate a consumer worldview.Lack of spirituality,selfishness and indifference are growing.Observing such trends in society, we can safely say that it is moving into the abyss.Need something to change and urgently.

The basic problem with society now, is the same problem that has always existed. People don't want to obey the God of the Bible through what the Bible tells them... or would tell them if they read it.

Our general public has changed a ton; a portion of the progressions are great, some awful and some are simply replicated from outside influence.This is greatest loss of progress. Ethical quality has completely vanished from our general public. In prior occasions, individuals gave more regard to legit and additionally instructed individuals however at this point just incredible get the regard. No big surprise currently individuals with muscle control and political power are most regarded in public activity.

I agree, happiness should also not be dependent on others. Meditation helps in my opinion.

Sadness/feeling being blue is like flu. People can catch it like a virus. If a person sees another person who suffers from depression, there's a negative effect on him and he could get sad as well. If you really wanted to avoid being sad, train your consciousness to be happy. Tell yourself you are happy and subconsciously you will. If you see anyone with sadness, try to be an optimist around them, because as sadness feels like a flue, happiness is a positive viral thing too. Spread love, spread happiness. Be the origin of other's happiness, break their sadness and you will see.

What's wrong? We didn't get all the way out of the UN, and kick them out of the US - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-us-and-israel-officially-pull-out-of-unesco-5092397.

Human society is growing and our life is constantly improving and improving. But accompanying such positive things is a sad truth - people are increasingly indifferent, indifferent to the things around them, from nature, animals to the very center of each other.

Simply, indifferently, indifference can be encapsulated in the phrase "I don't care". It emanates from the word "apatheia" - meaning "without passion".

indifference is the inevitable result of a developed social system. The development is too fast, too unintentionally hindering activities that require the participation and interaction of many people. That is why we feel calm with the world around us, with nature being increasingly destroyed today.

The people who are hung up on feeling alone, and on depression, are often hung up that way because of chemical imbalances in their bodies. It's hard for them to simply toss those feelings away when their body is shouting at them that it (they) is failing.

Get off medications (poisons), especially the ones for depression. Get onto good nutrition. Go to doctors who do tests to see what nutrients you need for your problem... because everyone is deficient in some distinct area. Finding yours will get you onto the nutrients you need. Since it is an unrefined nutrient, it is natural... not medically modified poison.

Over the past 30-40 years, the world has changed a lot and this is the fault of the man himself and the new technologies to which we have reached. The pace and rhythm of life were just crazy, everything is always somewhere to run, many have a lot of problems that are not solved.
Yes, many people are no longer able to enjoy life and blame the work and the need to have material benefits. People have no time to relax and this is the main problem. Everyone spends all their vacation watching social networks, news feeds and videos on YouTube.
Until we get back in touch with each other, I'm sure things won't get any better. Learn to smile at each other and just go to visit.

if someone was felt something wrong with today's society.yes but no.the feelings can be changed person to person.so any single person can not say this is wrong,this is correct.even i also say something according to my knowledge.today's society take everything good or bad.they don't care effects in them.they always try to get new experience.taking experience is good but the wrong thing is our society don't care about others when they are taking new experience.

Everything is not OK with the society as there is degradation of humane values with the rise of more and more economic activities and where commerce prevails honour sinks . Older people are  being neglected,mutual respect is diminishing ,feeling of togetherness or belongingness  is absent ,people are overburdened with work and  they are busy in  feathering their own nests. With the rise of technology most of the people are busy with their mobile phones on social media which has certainly cut off these people from emotional life their smile has evaporated ,aloofness is growing ,attachments are commercialised .For all these I will certainly blame the technology which has brought emotionlessness in society.It can be corrected through the early age or schooling period of the children.   

Society is a very complex thing.  There are people who are too busy working so they can survive into next month to really care. Then there are people who have some hatred based on envy, race, nationality, beliefs, religion, and so on; and this gets agitated further by the media, via social media, and so on. There are also drugs and addictions adding to the mix. And the more the world overpopulates, the more people will be struggling for one reason or another, and the less they will care about others.

In short, most people don't have any time for themselves, much less for others.

The character of each person will change if they have extensive knowledge, people who have knowledge will never look at people with one eye, will not only look at people from the visual side or in terms of appearance. Knowledgeable people will respect every difference, both race, economic, status, lifestyle and others.

However, today everyone only judges other people from the bad side, they only judge other people just from their appearance, just assess the way they talk. They will avoid or even ignore others if their lifestyle is not in accordance with their lifestyle. They will only be good when there are people who have high lifestyles from them who are the people they need to approach, while those who have a low lifestyle, they will ignore what happens.

That's the reason why most of us don't make progress in life, because of having crab mentality which some of them are trying to pull as down and they don't want also to be surpassed by the others just like what happened to them.

the inhumanity in the world today is just increasing rapidly fulfilling bible prophecy as many christian's believe "people will advance from bad to worse" (2 Timothy 3:13). most times people just want recognition, so if the help they want to render will not be publicized they end up not doing it. little wonder we see people showcasing even gifts or help they render to people on social media.

I strongly disagree with such kind of help i believe in doing the little or much you can do to heal the part of the world you are and touch people's lives whether seen by others or not 

Granted, we may even die from the overpopulation of the planet, and the government will exterminate us.

But that - the handmaid's tale - isn't believing the Bible and following it.

For this current generation, everyone wants to prove something
Almost everybody seeks for everyones attention, wanting everyones approval.
This is because of the social media. In which people tend to hide from someones identity to escape from the reality.

If they can't get the attention they wanted they'll end up getting depressed

You guys might wanna check this animation. it will illustrate beautifully what we all are doing wrong and I am certain that 99.99% users will agree on this.


A short film story by Steve Cutts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMAKpxN8N0

Don't worry, with global warming, we'll all be dead soon.

Have you seen that series The handmaid's tale? It's a shot at how the society obsessed with the Bible can turn out. At some point they start rewriting it, and killing everyone who don't agree with their version of the one and only "God's will". Too much religion is not good for you.
All problems of society disappear when the society disappears. As long as humans live they will have problems and emotions. They will fight, kill each other, envy. Religion won't change that.

All problems of society will go away when society believes in God as the Bible teaches, and follows what the New Testament says. Then, not only will society's problems go away, but even the individual's problems will go away. Death will become the door to eternal life in Heaven... when the N.T. is believed by a person.

The average person has always been unlikable. No reason to overdramatise.
Focus on educating people on greater morals, instead of complaining about their lack thereof.
If you don't have the free time to educate others - get rich first (in a moral way, of course)

Too many people with little self awareness. No responsibility for own actions - only violence when the outcome doesn't suit them.
But it's always been like this.
You be wise to ignore low people and make yourslef better. Help family and friend

our values have gone down the drain.  there's so much pride that's why our world is so chaotic.  people have no regard for human lives, animal lives, nature, laws, etc.  we are causing our own downfall.  we believe so much in ourselves and forgot WHO got us here in the first place.

When it comes to social problems – or your personal problems – is to ask if the thing you’re worried about is a serious problem that could potentially be harmful or it's just you've invented it in your mind? I think many problems in modern society is just inside people's head. We inventing our own doomsday's. Right?

I agree with you. When I think about our today's society I will angry myself by thinking this why I was born in this country, in this society. I am living in a dirty political society. I want a beautiful and friendly political society.

Lol I like your claim that God accelerated the printing press technology to distribute the bible by the way, it sounds plausible.

Too few people listening to Bible tapes on a daily basis.

I agree. It is possible that the internet makes our behavior more easily observable, but our nature has never changed.

You are goddamn right.
It`s always been like this, I am sure people of the past wondered about the same question centuries ago. Only small details change, the general context of flawed society remains the same.

Very philosophical, and I agree with the sentiment. Humanity has remained somewhat unchanged in my opinion. The people of a thousand years ago are as evil/good as the people of today.

The worst of society is that we admire actors, musicians, and billionaires and we want to be like them and they despise us for being common people. We have to pay more attention to  academic achievements, science fairs and science discoveries instead of sports events or sports stars when that day comes we will have a huge step forward

Couldn't agree more… Society is not the primal reason that humanity faces psychological pressure and symptoms of depression. After all we, as a society, are all part of the fundamental elements forming this problem. Nevertheless, there are people that can’t change things on their own, such as elders or patients, so the society must act and find ways to protect them from marginalisation and isolation. Humans need to let go of their own selfish ways-always thinking of profit- and do something for others for a change. That's not that likely though, so a start could be to simply start supporting projects and initiatives that guarantee their well- being, like that hinounou project mentioned aboved or others with a similar vision… I would love to know that my kids will have the chance to live in such society one day.

Well basically i feel burden and i somehow feel suffocating too in some way, yes a lot of us being or seems to feel in the same way but then again we need and must accept the reality that today's society is too cancer and to much complicated, so for me basically the wrong are us, yes us, because we the one who must be responsible.

1) People have been distanced from each other entirely via the internet.
2) The internet has highlighted the corruption, lies, and evil within modern society, and within most people. They have accepted their own evil and it has shrouded them in hatred.
3) People have openly rejected god and accepted Satan.

The modern socialists have had their selfish masks torn off, and they stopped feeling the need to be fake nice.

It would be, but I think it`s near impossible. Too much effort is needed to reverse the trend, and after all: who actually needs it? Certainly not corporations that can aggravate this division by selling premium stuff to people who can afford it. While the world is still ruled by money, this will never be the case.

I agree with you.
I think the purpose of social media is being misunderstood nowadays. I sometimes feel that people are actually eager to make other jealous. I think there are some that actually live and enjoy the misery of others..
There is a fine line with social media and it's so easy to make one step to the left or one to the right.
I can only wish for a future life where we could be all totally equal and with the desire to be happy instead of being happy on others misery.
Won't that be a good thing?

Nothing is wrong with today society, people live better than ever.There are less poor people than 50 years ago, less sickness,people live longer, there are less wars etc. So i say we are doing pretty good

It's happening because many lies were told so far and no one trusts each other anymore. People see each other as competitors, rivals that are constantly trying to achieve the same goals. There is so much tension on the air nowadays that even little issues on the daily life are a reason to mess with everything around.

There are too many problems in today's society, and many problems cannot be solved. Employment, environment, poverty alleviation. Capitalism has brought too many problems. Humans can only rely on new great leaders to lead me to victory.

It seems to me that there are two words which can describe our society in its fullest: money and loneliness.
It`s all about money today: people focus only on money alarmingly often, which makes them miss the rest of their life. They tend to miss the point that no matter how much money you earn, they make no sense if you can`t enjoy spending them.
As for loneliness, we do everything on the social media to make other people pay attention to us. Everybody is so eager for attention nowadays, it feels like these people won`t be able to survive if they`re left alone.

I am able to overcome my feelings or depression.. but i can't not notice others.
As i have said before, why people don't care anymore about others? I don't think that's normal.
I can only wish a better world will be created for us.. so we can live without having problems like the ones I have mentioned.. a disease free world where no children has cancer or leukemia, a world where people are not cruel to animals, a world were people don't kill one another for no reason, a gun free world..
Maybe with all the tech that is developing atm, they will be able to create that.

Humanity has always been like that. Just for some reason, you began to notice it right now. Perhaps this is due to your personal problems or depression. If the latter is true, then you need to seek help from a psychologist.
And people have always been mostly insidious and selfish. Read Shakespeare or just a book on history, and you will understand that for hundreds of years, humanity has not become better or worse. Everything is as usual.
If all this is so depressing to you, try changing the world around you, starting with yourself. Smile more to people, do good deeds. Perhaps then you will see a response from others and begin to see more positive things in your life.

What you have stated becomes normal to everyone nowadays. But I think we were totally different to what we all used to be before. I believe that technology plays a major role in this changes. For example, social media have set some expectations that isn't at all the reality for most of us. Since everyone were using it, they tend to compare and end up being depressed or whatever. The thing is technology is indeed making advance but it slowly washing off the real personality a human should have.

What I feel about today's society is that, we humans are bwcoming inhumane. We care too much about other human while we are not really into humanity. We are becoming rude, we slowly loosing our manners, we are becoming the opposite of the society we are looking for. On the other hand, despite of those negative things that is happening around the society, we should not take away the credit from the people whom showed kindness, benevolence, and positivity. All of these things, be it --- positive or negative it may be, we should not let the society change the good way we truly are, instead, it is we who should change the society in the good way it supposed to be.

It's perfectly normal to feel that way, hell-it's even normal to commit suicide. But please try to zoom out and look at the world as an outsider before reaching to any conclusions. Everything has got to do with the way you perceive reality. All the facts that you mentioned are true. but there are also as many-if not more-  facts that when you hear them will just make you wanna go outside and enjoy people with. The current financial system has changed everyone. When once all you had to do was play the game "life", and gold would be earned simply by playing it, you know have to find gold in order to play the game! As a result everyone is constantly thinking about survival (well, not all, but most). You tend to get a bit miserable thinking you won't last the year due to your economic circumstances! Every negative thing has its upside though, as is with everything in life! Look at what that financial system and its crisis have helped form. A new society! Where else would you feel comfortable saying that you feel alone and depressed! Where else would you feel that is is okay lay out your concerns!? The community formed around crypto is filled with people feeling the exact same way as you, and want the world, as it currently functions, to change. Of course, there are evil beings here as well, let's not forget that ying&yang coexist! Overall the good that crypto emminates will prevail. It's not all about payment systems and getting rich you know! Some projects just want to leave the world a slightly better place-take Hinounou for example- offering a complete healthcare ecosystem to our seniors, when even our countries neglect them!

Do something that makes you feel fulfilled (not just your regular job), do stuff you enjoy doing, depression is an emotion just like any other and thus can be controlled with physical things (Not just mentally), stop searching stuff like "how to overcome depression" because people will tell you their experiences and the things that happened to them when depressed, search instead for "people doing stupid things, fails" things that get you in a good mood. We were created to enjoy life not to complain about the things that are wrong with the world, of course they are important, but everyone should do their best and forget the rest.

You could always move out onto the ocean. Maybe buy a boat, and sail away for the rest of your life. All you would have to contend with is the Great Pacific garbage patch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch.

There are always going to be miserable people who see you aren't miserable and will want to bring you down to their level like crabs pulling each other down into a bucket. Try not to focus on them too much and focus on whomever you can find that is not like that.

Have you ever felt alone and depressed? Have you ever felt that nobody likes you? Have you ever walked on the street and felt that everybody is looking at you in a bad way?
I really don't understand what happened to people.. did they forgot how to smile?!
I feel that people don't care anymore about others and i have seen so many fundraisers online that barely collect 100$. I see people acting bad with animals and nature.. and one with another. Where is this going to lead? Global corporations don't know what else to do to make money on poor people backs and step on bodies to become no.1.
I am ashamed of today's society.. we live in a cruel world and i wish it ends soon because this is not the way humans should live.
How do you feel about what's happening around us?