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This last decade has seen a major change in the way society reacts to itself.
Families are becoming larger in the sense that all the Boomers are getting older and some are starting to live with their children or grandchildren. Also, friends are living with friends' families. And it's also getting more common for single parents to live with their parents. My family is a good example of all of these. My grandmother, my sister and her son, and my best friend are all living with me in my parent's house.
Also, society is not dumbing down. In fact.. we're getting a lot smarter. And that makes the media look like it's dumbing down. It's the same..we're just getting smarter. We have easier access to more information than ever before and this is both a good and bad thing. Bad because sometimes the information we may be getting may be propaganda or wrong.
This decade we have learned that authority figures have become incredibly corrupt and this has run down into how our children think and are taught. I've seen kids at my nephew's school questioning their parents and teachers more than they used to. Not questioning as in out of curiousity.. but questioning WHY they have to or should do something. They're interested in what kind of role their authority figures have over them.
We're also seeing a sexual revolution over the internet. There is way more amateur porn than there ever was. Porn stars are getting increasingly uglier for some reason. They cannot compare to some amateur stars at all.
Old people are not that old fashioned anymore. While working at a nursing home, there was a 90 year old telling me how she wanted to go to a rock show like her grandkids and rock out because she loved their music. (Really! haha) Boomers and "near Boomers" are soo not old fashioned.
Green living is IN.
This is probably the decade of information and experience. Not only do we "The more you know!.." we "The more you do!..". haha
The wierdest thing of all is how fast it passed.
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