well what do you think about how we've changed in the last ten twenty years
i think it's pretty amazing i think um that my grandparents especially have seen a whole lot of change in their lives but um
in in like in what ways particularly are you thinking
well technology but also morals morals and things like that i think even even in the last like four years you can still see things falling so fast and that can be
uh-huh
for me that's the biggest change it's so frustrating um to see everything
disintegrating
disintegrating and losing control your your losing control it seems like of the moral fiber of our society
yeah it seems that well it its a seems like it's definitely a transitional time i'm not sure
exactly what's happening there're good things that have happened but but at the moment we're suffering from
i think information overload for one thing um just just the technology like you mentioned
um-hum
um-hum
faxes and car phones and VCRs and all of that that make us so immediate there there's no time for
relationships talking sitting being with each other all of that
i think you're really right i think like well even with computers um
oh yes
you can there i mean there's so much that's happening in in that field and it
it just has forced us to go so fast and
um even the way we write it used to be if you read a book like you know Thomas Hardy takes two chapters to establish the mood and
um-hum
and just describes the scenery and what's been going on and stuff and now we just chopped all that out and say well let's get to the point and
exactly no patience
yeah
no attention span
yeah exactly
these sound bites you're exactly right i mean all there's all that and then we've got the rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer
with with you know with with little hope of of having any impact i think impotence is a
is a a word that that suits most of America now we don't feel like we can influence you know influence anything
yeah you feel out of control
uh-huh uh-huh like just a few people have it all wrapped up and they're not going to let you through um
yeah
um-hum
um-hum
and it's a bad feeling
yeah it is it's really frustrating and the way our families you know our nuclear families are
disintegrating and stuff it's just a real
um-hum
um-hum
you don't have the the social networks we used to have to
yeah go ahead
to protect the family and protect the people in the family and things like that with everyone moving
you know every five years you lose your contacts you lose trusted friends that you know they'll do things you know in America it seems now it's independence is the thing and
um-hum um-hum
you know heaven forbid if you ask anyone for anything
yeah then that's
whereas we used to be able to depend on each other and trust each other and
you'll help me and i'll help you not and not in this corrupted sense but in the sense of
you know when you're in trouble and you need someone you know someone to babysit the kids sure
um-hum the interdependence interdependence in a nice way
yeah
exactly
yeah i think uh i i don't know there was a lot there was good and bad in the nuclear family we've certainly found out a lot about the bad about it
yeah
uh but but but the community
however the family looked and it didn't always look like a nuclear family even then you know you had generations living together or you know whatever community has just definitely been lost and
um-hum
i think a lot of people are trying to reestablish it in all sorts of different ways um you know well okay so we don't have a small town and okay so we move but
you know maybe there's some way that we can have a group that works together you know everything from people who do live in communal you know almost commune areas that they've started up again you know
um special cities or little towns that do that to people who do it through a church or through a book club or something i mean something you know even offices have started sort of becoming the community
yeah
yeah i think i think because it's a necessity
yeah
as as as human beings we need a network around us of people we can rely on i guess that's uh thing is that right now it's such a um
um-hum and yeah
temporary thing that how far does it go how far can you depend on them and they're so much more fragile at the touch you know
yeah
yeah and that's a good point and and we don't have the intergenerational generational
community either which means that do you do you have to be between twenty and forty to be accepted and if
