The "Me First" Society

Here's a video clip of some examples of how some people who bought more house than they could afford decide that "other people" should pay for their mistake. This is really sad. It is symptomatic of a society that takes no responsibility but instead is quick to blame anybody and everybody else. Pretty infantile. And, as the end of the report notes, it will end up costing everybody as well as the perpetrator. So... go ahead and what how a dysfunctional person in a dysfunctional society thinks they can "solve" a problem they created by making a big mess...



I would say this is a pretty good example of what a society that has lost its moral foundation behaves when things don't go its way. So much for all that right wing talk of "family values" and all those claims of how "religion" is so important and prevalent in the fabric of America. That country needs to grow up and learn to take responsibility and show respect for their neighbors. More common sense and common decency are needed and less ideology and claims of exceptionalism.

This action reminds me of the so-called radicals of the late 1960s/early 1970s who who would pilfer and steal from stores under the cover of "ripping off" the rich. The joke was that this supposedly radical "action" merely raised the prices for everybody else. There was no way that retailers were going to "swallow" these costs. That's not how economics works. But these supposed "leftists" were as economically ignorant as well as morally bankrupt. So... after remembering this, maybe these right-wing radicals of today, the libertarian, me-first house/condo flippers of today who feel outrage that their speculations didn't work out are eerily familiar. They are the same kind of amoral, self-serving characters as those doing the "rip-offs" during the 60s/70s. In both cases, these self-justifying characters leave a mess for others to clean up.