"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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I think in the past, we had a culture of self-education. People generally
yearned to better educate themselves, to learn to be more civil and genteel.
People generally had a sense of personal honor and people kept to their
word. Unfortunately, this honor system kept on getting abused.

Nowadays, we have a culture based on self-gratification and hedonism. Watch
MTV for awhile and you'll find out.