Anomie

Our society today suffers from an excess of tolerance. We tolerate loud people and boom boxes, we tolerate women wearing mens clothes (jeans),we tolerate illiteracy, we tolerate obesity,we tolerate teen age pregnancy, we tolerate dumb TV, bad governmental policy... mismatched couples. etc. Spoiled, undisciplined children rule the roost...

Negative social sanctions use to enforce certain standards...., the evolution of the moral ambiguity of the 1960's...have produced these results....we are reaping the whirlwind of our faltering confidence.