A friend of mine asked me where morality in our society has gone. I have not taken a verifying poll, so I cannot say with certainty whether there are indeed fewer moral people than there were, say, 40-50 years ago, though it sure seems that way. But what seems clear to me is that those who believe in living by a moral code that encompasses integrity, honesty, independence and productivity, have gone underground.
Concerned about being classed as being "square", living by old rules, being out-of-date, and ridiculed for "not being with it", many, many moral people have chosen, I think, to be relatively quiet on this critically important issue. Their choice to keep their morality to themselves is further spurred by their general inability to prove the validity of their moral code, based as it most often is on subjective feelings, whims and unprovable ancient dogma.
And their silence has devastating consequences. Youngsters struggling to define a way of life for themselves, hear little to rebut the immoral onslaught coming at them daily from friends, in popular music, new wave movies, and just about everywhere else:
"It's a dog-eat-dog world"
"Gotta do what you gotta do to get ahead"
"Everybody's doing it"
"Times have changed and we have to, too"
"Everything's in"
As always, when the good, the right, the wise, are silent, the bad, the wrong, the unintelligent and uninformed, win...by default.
Time to come out of the moral closet before the door gets jammed shut for a long, long time.
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