Ever since the post-WWII baby boom, American culture has been sent down the path to complete realignment, and now in comparison, the United States is almost an entirely different country. Our appearances, philosophies, collective sense of importance, and patriotism has been torn to shreds. Where we used to fight passionately for American safety, we now fight for people to stop being mean because someone said something they don't like. Instead of bettering ourselves and realizing our own faults, we now label any negativity we hear as a stigma to some sort of flaw. The social injustices we claim to plague the country are primarily different opinions. There are new "genders" being created daily, and with them new protests to make them recognized. So there is no honest version of what is normal anymore. People are so desperate to make sure everyone else knows they are expressing themselves.
Almost more than half of marriages end in divorce, the narrative for abortion was changed from an issue of murder to an issue of "rights," people are more quick to mob together on Twitter and ridicule rather than come together in real life any do something about their grievances. The sociopolitical movements we think better the country are unfortunately serving themselves as kindling to a more self-obsessed society that thinks that everyone deserves a trophy. What I am trying to say is that our America in this day and age is a completely different nation than it was a decade ago, and it has not changed for the better. Our sense of nationalism has been almost nonexistent since the World Trade Center fell, and everyone is living in the "us against them" mentality. Instead of the nation of opportunity and morality, we have become the nation of outrage.
At least protests in the past were for legitimate grievances. We marched for equality, women's suffrage, and the freeing of slaves. Now protests swarm the country the second a police officer hits an unruly criminal, or some Christian church decides not to serve a homosexual wedding. Just because bad things happen doesn't mean that they are attached to some institutionalized stigma against you. Bad things happen to everyone, and there are countless people out there who will not agree with anything you stand for. That is real equality. If you want real equality, you can't silence a differing opinion.
What people forget is that deep down, we are all just animals who are led through life by conscious behaviors and instinct, just like every other living thing. The only thing that really separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom is our capability of complex thought. Take that away, and we are just another primate running around for survival. The world has existed without us just fine, and it is not necessarily a better place with us now. We are very unimportant in the grand scheme of things, and the constant outrages and protests are just becoming ridiculous. Life has never been easier for any other species, and the world is so fragile that it could destroy the way we live within days. So when you are riding atop your high horse demanding that your new social protests demand action, remember that the world will revolve without you, and no one truly cares about your feelings.
