Morally speaking, our country is not heading in the best direction. We are generally too arrogant to know better and with our arrogance we seem to be going at break-neck speed into a moral abyss (all the while we're being told it is human evolution). Our moral compass is obviously encouraged from within rather than from an outside, absolute source: we are thinking and acting as if we are truly our own standard for all things right and wrong.
There are obvious problems with this: when my moral compass allows me to do or say things that hurt others, there's a practical problem. It's not about creativity; it's about truth. And in our postmodern era of relativism, we're finding ourselves lost while declaring to everyone around us that we've "found ourselves."
Doesn't it seem weird that we celebrate weird? It's almost as if "normal" is the weirdest thing of all, and certainly nothing anyone is going to laud and applaud. We are a society of nonconforming conformists.
It's only very recently - within the last few decades - that people have been able to change themselves physically beyond tattoos and piercings. It did not begin with gender-change, it began with face-lifts, breast augmentations, Botox injections, stomach-stapling, etc.
We are not satisfied with ourselves; but the problem is not that we are unsatisfied with who we are, but rather how we look. The changes are all about the surface!
It's easy to moan and groan about society, but I am a part of society; and the only way to change the whole is to change me - from within, and by a standard that is higher than "I."
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