Within our cores of enlightenment or personal revelation reside a once embraced despair, emotional/psychological trauma, or an act of desperation. 

     But if born enlightened, if never having experienced the need for truth-seeking, our core essence has probably aligned itself to cosmic purity.  This appears almost vacuumous rather than indicative of universal planet, comet, asteroid awareness.  We reside uninterrupted in anything but self-edification.

     Hi, Luna Liz again, big sister incarnate to the darkness of non-discovery.

     Forty years ago it was written that mortality declines as technology advances.  Luna Liz has observed moral decline in response to population growth.  We can blame technology, inflation, populational growth, even capitalism, but mortality and knowledge of ethics, protocol, and social responsibility rest squarely upon the individual.  He or she often becomes involved to resist declines in societal values, or allows decision-making to be someone else’s.  The evidence for choices made is observed through exhibitions of regressive behaviors, plus civilized nations living in fear.

     First World moral deprivations today stem from its youthful 1960s into 70s counter-revolution movements in response to the Viet Nam war, parental dominance, and apparently a dissatisfaction with educational institutions.  Only in hindsight has America, for example, realized that peace and drugs don’t mix, but neither did flowers accompanied by empty slogans.

     Did societal fear begin in those days?  Perhaps seduced by the era’s Charlie Mansons and “old school” parents losing control of their children?  Or is fear the result of seeing late 20^th Century youth take over neighborhoods and now entire city districts?

     Declining morality starts with attitude, but is expressed through verbal and physical action- pants worn at half moon (exposing teenage girls to too-soon permissiveness), disrespectful responses to authority, even to peers, and today’s youth-to-youth/adult sense of entitlement all providing examples of societal complacency.  Have you heard the story of the homeowner who wouldn’t join the Neighborhood Watch?  One day, while at work, his home was burglarized.  The response being an angry frustration—toward the very Neighborhood Watch he wouldn’t involve himself with.  Only at night was the Watch effective, anyway, but point made.

     “Ignorance is Bliss” is an old, tired cliché.  The ignorant person doesn’t know any better, so the adage still applies.  But professing ignorance of what appears before and around is no longer valid.  Television, alone, one of the precursors to the modern technological age, prevents our capability to plead ignorance.

     What has been given away can often-times be retrieved.  Diplomacy is needed in this case, through parent to child, teacher to child, even peer to peer.  No one person or social institution can individually act alone to restore morality.  Regressive, “accept the easiest path” nature has first to be overcome.  This requires a national advertising campaign to educate a populace regarding the cost of continued decline versus its adopting a spirit of unification and productive purpose.

     Education begins with government representatives, authority and power accepting that their responsibility is to the present-day welfare and future security of their people—all their people, from the richest to the poorest, from the most contributive to the least.