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Oh my .

blues90  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 05:30 PM
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What's happened to people ?

In the 70's during a cold sleating day in Chicago just before I could make the turn into the gas station I ran out of gas , what I got was that's what you get for buying a ford . I began pushing my car and suddenly it moved easier , I turn and a female was helping me push it .

In 1973 I was driving the tow truck for a gas station I worked for , I was cut off the road and the truck hit the curb at 65 MPH and flipped and rolled several times and ended up , up side down in a ice water filled ditch , 5 people stopped and helped me out .

In the late 80's as I was driving to work an elderly lady fell off the sidewalk and into the street and cars went around her . I was 10 cars behind the intersection not on the street she fell on and tried to get out then a man in an expensive car pulled over to help her up .

In 2003 is was test driving a ranger that the brakes were repaired on at the dealership i worked at . I had the green light however even though I was moving slow a women across the intersection made a fast left from the far right lane , i hit the brakes and i did not slow . we hit , the air bag went off and I could not see or breath and tried to get out , good thing I forgot to remove the shoulder belt , if it were not for it pulling back in i would have been run down . I got out , found the car with the women trying to drive off , she couldn't . I asked if she was ok and she just said , It was my green light .

Then horns blew and people yelled get your damn truck out of the way . Not one person helped or asked if I was ok , just get out of the way .

I was in a daze from the airbag impact but could not believe the way people acted .

I fear people are on their own now days , it is a sad thing to have to accept this .

I wonder what Sigmund Freud would think , the way the blue primitive puts a space in between punctuation marks . 

One suspects the blue primitive has literary aspirations .

Primitives with literary aspirations try stupid things with grammar and spelling and punctuation , as if it's some sort of really creative literary device .

The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 05:32 PM
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1. The people who didn't stop to help were rushing to post on GDP

dana_b (74 posts)      Fri Mar-07-08 05:35 PM
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2. man, that's awful!! 

I'm sorry that happened but I know what you mean. How did you get out of that last situation?

People have gotten so self absorbed, in such a damn hurry that we don't take time for the really important issues, like helping out a fellow human being. Hopefully you see a bit more of the good in people soon. That good man in your avatar left an awesome legacy and I wish more would learn and live it.

blues90  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:41 PM
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16.  I was able to get back in the ranger and steer it to the curb with the left front tire rubbing on the bent in front bumper and call work on my cell phone . The women walked down the street saying she was late for an appointment .

I had sore shoulders and arms from bracing for the impact and burns from the airbag and lost my watch which was ripped off from the bags blast .

I never experienced an airbag go off . It's as loud as a shot gun blast and the smoke chokes you and it burns your eyes . My eyes were ringing .

Sure the blue primitive meant " my ears were ringing . "

mak3cats  (232 posts)      Fri Mar-07-08 05:35 PM
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3. "Who cares as long as I get what I want?"

That's the attitude I find most prevalent today. It seems that good manners are a thing of the past. Which leads to it being rare that a day goes by where I don't say to myself at some point "I hate people!". Unfortunate, but true.

kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:38 PM
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15. My ex-DBF had that attitude, which would be why he eventually became my EX.

In LA we call it "Hurry Disease" - symptoms include talking on cell phones while driving, racing and swerving through rush hour traffic, and shoving people aside in stores and other public places. It's an epidemic.

Makes me hate the human race, too.

Anybody know what "ex-DBF" means ?

Damn primitives , and their stupid acronyms .

flvegan  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 05:36 PM
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4. I've noticed this a number of times. My personal experience leaves me sorely disappointed in people. Every time I see a wreck, I stop. Sadly, even though I'm one of 20 folks that witnessed it, I'm usually stopping all by myself.

Sign of the times. Selfish, self-absorbed times.

Sign of the times .  Sign that one's a primitive .

laylah  (1000+ posts)      Fri Mar-07-08 05:39 PM
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5. I wish I knew...

I vividly remember the world as you remember it.  I don't know what to say except you are not alone!

hootinholler  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:01 PM
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6. It comes with the fear and loathing...

People are afraid they will be on the street, and nobody is talking about bringing those responsible to justice.

Well, a few are.

I still stop to help people if they look like it's needed.

angrycarpenter  (916 posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:06 PM
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7. Ronald Reagan 

Sometime after he was elected it became our patriotic duty to scorn the less fortunate as losers. Life became a bloodsport where the losers were to taunted and spit upon for not finishing first. People were homeless because they were lazy. People got AIDS because they were sinful. Bad things happen because god wants it that way, who are we to fight the will of god.

Jesus became a vengeful, angry smiter. The me generation became the **** you generation where kicking someone when they were down became a virtue and hate became the new love. Forgiveness has become a mortal sin.

There are still a lot of good people in the world but there are no longer enough to offset the monolithic selfishness of the American people.

elizfeelinggreat (298 posts)      Fri Mar-07-08 06:14 PM
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9. amen

Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.

That's what happened.

And the party of Greedy Old Perverts has been providing cover for selfish people ever since.

blues90  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:35 PM
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13.  Yeah , good old Reagan 

What a freak . All those people tossed out of the mental instituions were all over this area and they too were ignored and avoided like a disease .

Something has died in the hearts of people in this country , just common curtesy is gone for the most part .

If I were to ignore someone like that my conscience would haunt me for months if not longer . I don't know , I have not tested it out and don't intend to .

Old age must have done something to the blue primitive .

It was the Incompetent One ( 1977-1981 ) who got people "mainstreamed" out of the mental institutions , not Ronald Reagan .

RedEarth  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:07 PM
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8. I don't think there's any question people are a lot more rude and aggressive than 30-40 years ago(and I'm 60 now, so I remember that far back). I think there is a huge difference. You see it when you stand in line at stores, when you're driving, in sports...it's through-out society.

Our police department has set up a special unit just to concentrate on aggressive drivers...they were getting so many complaints from citizens(me being one) they felt it was warranted that some officers strictly focus on this.

I'm sure there are a multitude on reasons why society is like this now, but whatever the cause, it certainly isn't as pleasant as it used to be.

blues90  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:29 PM
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11.  I know , you are a year ahead of me on this planet 

I know it was never anything like this . Not long ago I was always helping two women who still live in the building I live in > No matter what it was if they called I would help . I fixed their cars and went out of my way to pick them up if they needed a ride .

My battery died a half mile from here in a parking lot and I called both . Both told me they were going out and in a hurry . Even when I told them I have cables and it's on your way all you need to do is sit in your car for a few seconds .

I ended up walking back to my car and a fellow who worked in an aquarium shop that I used to go in gave me a jump . And still when they call I help because it's just not in me to say no when there is no reason to sit here and let someone suffer .

I see this in stores and many other places . It's me first get out of the way .

These tiny things I do like helping an older lady get her shopping cart over a curb or getting something off shelf when someone can't reach it in a store are a second out of my time yet other people seem to somehow move away to avoid helping anyone .

aphopkin  (248 posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:19 PM
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10. Its all about ME
 
Who cares, as long as I get what I want.

I'll do whatever I like until somebody makes me stop.

If I don't look at you, you don't exist.

And, at the same time, I'm afraid of everyone out there because my authority figure told me to fear everyone else.

Combo platter, really.

sleebarker  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:32 PM
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12. When the nation is run by genetic psychopaths people who are susceptible to psychopathy will adopt it as an adaptive strategy.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:36 PM
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14. Try being homeless. Then you'll REALLY know just how alone you are!

"could not believe the way people acted ."

Welcome to my world.

blues90  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:48 PM
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18.  I see how they are treated here 
 
Like so much garbage . It's scary an my wife and I are not that far from becoming homeless . I have been homeless in my 20's and 30's but I had a van and some stuff to sell for food , I doubt now a year away from 60 I could handle it .

MartyL (17 posts)      Fri Mar-07-08 06:47 PM
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17. Should we accept this?
 
I wish we could turn it around.

Unfortunately the television plays a huge role in rearing the future generations, and it ain't looking good for us.
Look at the 'role model' leading the country. Until we change our values as a culture, we are screwed. If we could somehow turn it around to scorn on the greedy, the hypocrites and mean people, and instead admiring people because they are kind and generous to others, because they follow the true teachings of Jesus. But right now, the crap is floating to the top, not the cream.

You know , this is only anecdotal and sporadic observation , but the only places I've ever seen where people have cold-heartedly and deliberately obstructed emergency vehicles ( ambulances , fire trucks , police cars ) were . . . . . Boston and Baltimore . 

One wonders which political party for decades , generations , has run Boston and Baltimore .

[Lord Undies]

Welcome to Socialism 101.  When people are told the government must do everything, why should some individual stop to help?  Isn't take what the police are for? 

My neighbor stopped to aid a wreck victim a couple of years ago.  The woman was bleeding.  My neighbor called an ambulance.  The woman tried to sue my neighbor for interfering and calling an ambulance.  It got thrown out of court, but that's a good example of why we have to now think twice before doing the decent thing.

[jukin]

Reminds me of the NOLA man that was pissed that people, govenrment drones wer nto picking up the trash.

[Carl]

I dunno,I still open doors for ladies and things like that.

Seems to me the only ones to ever have an issue with it were militant feminists.

Thinking more people would lend a hand to others too if it wasn`t for fear of getting sued somehow by John Edwards types that have used the court system for enrichment and social income redistribution.

No surprise though,libs NEVER accept responsibility for their actions and then cry when we don`t jump up to pay for the damage they have inflicted on society and themselves.

[Chris_]

Well isn't this just a beehive of cognitive dissonance! Don't most of the people responding live in cities (or at least communities with larger populations since they talk about living in "buildings" and such). And aren't most cities suffocating with leftists? Yet they blame Reagan. Whereas we here in the country and the small towns tend to be more conservative but wouldn't think twice about pulling over and helping someone in need. Even a moonbat.

Cindie

[dandi]

angrycarpenter  (916 posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:06 PM
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7. Ronald Reagan

Hmmm, that's crediting an awful lot of power and influence to one man over an eight year period. So he singlehandedly changed the social mores of every man woman and child not only during his tenure as POTUS, but also in the intervening twenty years since then?

I agree that society as a whole has coarsened considerably and become more apathetic, but I see it more as a cumulative effect of 40+ years of "progressive" influence. I use scare quotes around the word because it's not progress in the popularly-understood context of betterment, much as its adherents would like folks to believe, but rather a simple movement from Point A to Point B without regard for the consequences.

Sometimes the status quo or even regression ain't all that bad, especially when "progress" consists of a headlong rush into Hell.

No, todays societal decline has at its core many things, including but not limited to:


Human life being redefined as a "choice", and the resulting holocaust of 45,000,000 unborn children. To borrow a line from one of my favorite authors, "Life is cheap. Abortion makes it cheaper."

Disposable marriages, liberalized divorce laws, and the single parent families that result from them.

The entitlement mentality.

The mainstreaming of sexual perversions.

The tendency to blame Man first, especially successful white men.

The tendency to blame America first.

The removal of the stigma surrounding illegitimacy.

The removal of the stigma surrounding drug use.

The removal of the stigma surrounding crude public behavior.

The removal of the stigma surrounding anything.

Moral equivalency and situation ethics.

Sex, violence, and the lionization of anti-heroes and sociopaths in popular media.

Substituting political correctness for straight talk and the chilling effect it has had on debate.

The removal of God from public discourse.

The indulgence and lack of discipline in children.

The rationalization of criminal and other antisocial behavior, i.e. blaming anyone and anything for the criminals' behavior except the criminal him/herself.


Each and every one of these phenomena can be laid to a major degree at the feet of Liberals and their unholy god of "progress". I find it much more intuitive that the pernicious effects of the above has resulted in the societal decay we are now faced with rather than the influence of one man over a period of a few years.

Perhaps the liberals will include the above list in their next treatise on what we should "Thank a liberal for...".   
   

[Freeper]

blues90  (1000+ posts)       Fri Mar-07-08 06:48 PM
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18.  I see how they are treated here
 
Like so much garbage . It's scary an my wife and I are not that far from becoming homeless . I have been homeless in my 20's and 30's but I had a van and some stuff to sell for food , I doubt now a year away from 60 I could handle it .

He was living in a van down by the river. 

[Flame]

remind me to stay away from that guy...he's bad luck! 

Seriously....he's had a lot of "situations", and funny how none of them were ever his fault!


I have witnessed ONE accident where I actually saw it happen and stayed to give a statement to police.  I've come upon maybe 2 right after they happened, but other people were already responding/calling 911, etc, so I didn't stop, as I didnt' want to clog things up.   Mr Flame was in an accident last summer (guy pulled out in front of him, then the guy drive off), and the person behind Mr Flame chased the other guy to get a plate number.     I'm not seeing anything like the OP is complaining about.  Just the opposite, in fact.

[Bondai]

Eh.....BULLSHIT!

In 1973 I was driving the tow truck for a gas station I worked for , I was cut off the road and the truck hit the curb at 65 MPH and flipped and rolled several times and ended up , up side down in a ice water filled ditch , 5 people stopped and helped me out .

[BlueStateSaint]

I sxaw a woman get cut off entering I-87 last summer . . . she wound up spinning her car and going backwards at @50 mph or so, across three lanes of traffic, and ending up in the median . . . I stopped, and the woman she nearly plowed into stopped.  Since it was rush hour around here, no one else stopped.  We got her calmed down and I went on my way (the other woman waited for the State Police to arrive), as I had a class that morning.  But, I would have stopped no matter what the circumstances were . . . and I supported Reagan.

Eat that, DUmb****. 

[ScubaGuy]

In 2003 is was test driving a ranger that the brakes were repaired on at the dealership i worked at . I had the green light however even though I was moving slow a women across the intersection made a fast left from the far right lane , i hit the brakes and i did not slow .

This may be some insight about why he got fired at the dealership and can't get another service job.  I wonder just how many customer and dealer cars he wrecked.