We have literally spent billions of first world dollars developing and implementing technologies to make redundant and obsolete any and all forms of person to person socializing. We have created laws forbidding groups of youth to play together under the guise of security and injury protection. It has been such a success, that now very few have any concept whatsoever of spatial awareness. The word "respect" is still here, but the definition of it has been erased from dictionaries and the voicing of it has been outlawed.
When I was young, the telephone was a new device in the home. We had what was known as a "party line". Even though we had our own phone number, if we called out or were called, and the neighbor picked up their phone, the neighbor could hear all that was said and even participate in the conversation. You sorta had to be a good neighbor and surrounded by good neighbors at that time. For the most part, it was a good neighbor system that held up well. There was a sense of community at that time. Everyone knew each other.
In the 90s when the www came around and the blue collars were "allowed" to purchase time connected to it by the minute, at.....12kbs, it became the Information Age. Many with a lot of life experience used to warn that someday your own person privacy would be something that you would have to pay for.
Ya right was the reply by most.
Then as speed increased and more and more people of all income levels gained access, it went from "allowed" to suggested that one be online.
Now it's required that you be online to get through school, to have a job, or to run a business, etc.
The sense of community is long gone. The concept of earning respect, much less showing it toward others, has also gone. It will not return until after the war. History much repeat itself, just as it always has and always will. But wow, what a great ride it has been during the short interval of relative peace.
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