Yes, there have been tremendous technological advancements. We're all grateful for them. But they do not in anyway offset the societal devastation that continues apace even as technology advances.
Those arguing that better automobiles or cell phones makes up for intact family structures or wholesome communities not riddled with societal dysfunctions that were the stuff of sordid tabloids of yesteryear have missed the point.
An entire generation used up the hard earned social and financial capital of previous generations and then voted to eat the seed corn too in their own life times and have left debt, family dysfunction, broken institutions, and moral degradation in their wake.
Please don't lecture those of us who've came after and are saddled with cleaning up the mess and who are doing our best to prevent it from subsuming our children to believe that faster cars or computation was worth all of that. It wasn't.
