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I disagree to an extent. The hippies had some quite literate spokesmen that could explain the movement in terms that could make non hippies at least partially understand some aspects of the newer culture that weren't exactly arising from degeneration. Some of those spokespeople also weren't...

Really, Dave, all the heroes and roll models have been tainted and show their true colors, like Lance Armstrong.

That could be a key point, Jim. All the crap that they teach you in school plus the useful things, still the important wisdom from older lives instructing younger about behavior, to some extent that link has been broken, it seems. Maybe people are too busy with other stuff than to take care of...

No, Steve, I can't disagree about the states because I haven't been there in so long. When I stop and analyze it for here as well, I certainly liked how people related to each other during earlier days. Maybe I just hoped that the good things that I remember about the states wouldn't change...

Wow! I guess in part that the secret to a happy life is then having friends that you can trust and that share your own sentiments about the social graces. Outside from that, you are likely to find unpleasant to upsetting responses. Wonder what the deal is that changed things so drastically?

No shit, Paul! Wow, that doesn't sound good. I guess a lot can happen in ten years. I generally tell people here that are going to the states to have a vacation, that folks are nice. Wonder what I should tell them? To stay watchful, or something?

I think that more Americans stop at crosswalks with people in them, than Russians appear to, but that might be a fine point about the niceties or not within each culture. Weather also seems to have something to do with people's behavior, and a cause for which they can't be blamed. I like to...

I don't get it. So you have this multitude of cars zipping through a crosswalk with an obviously perplexed elderly lady standing in the middle, and one thoughtful person stops to assist her. Good for him and his common sense, but is that something to rejoice over? Makes me sad. Guess I'm...