Surely, I can point out a few features that make people behave this or that way, but under different circumstances they might behave differently, or in other words, dynamics might change altogether to bring the society into a new, better, or worse equilibrium. All this is just a gut feeling I have, and I may be biased by the state of my own country, Germany, where I see that a lot of people are still pretty “old-fashioned” with their family values, superficial chastity and loyalty to their partners. A lot of decent folks out and about. What I can’t see is whether it’s going south or north at this point, how the ratio of contributors vs. leeches, engineers vs. hoodlums, family women/men vs. narcissist short-term-gain serial monogamists are changing.

You tend to compare how things were done in your youth with how they are done now, but I don’t always agree with the correlations/causations you infer, because of the reasons stated above. OTOH you never fail to bring an interesting perspective into my life, for which I am grateful.

Not really sure myself where I´m going with this, but somehow it seemed to fit in here. 🙂