Idle Ramblings of a Slightly Mad Man

I was listening to a conversation with my coworkers this morning and they were discussing theirselves.  Each sentence was spoken to outdo the other person.  As I was listening it got me to thinking about how we have really become a society of individuals. 

In this day and age it seems that we have become a group of people focused on being the best at blogging, texting, You-Tubeing, My-Spacing, etc….  I wouldn’t say gone but nearly fogotten are competing with the neighbors, better dressed, better cars, etc… We are so focused on these type of individual tasks that we have ailenated ourselves from focusing on becoming better at things that could bring society together as a group.  It seems that social activities are becoming harder and harder to find.  Friends and neighbors used to play cards, vacation together or just sitoutside on a summer evening.  Kids would run up and down the streets playing football, baseball and kickball or catch fireflys.  These things are all but lost anymore.  Now we sequester ourselves behind computers.  Our socializing comes from forums and chatrooms. 

How did it become this way?  Are we not letting our kids out out of fear of something might happen to them?  Are parents to absorbed in theirselves and their lives to take interest in their kids? 

 Going back to my co-workers conversation I didn’t once hear anyone while they were trying to out-do the other brag about any of their skills that involved a group activity that involved person to person contact without electronic means.  Not even a tall tale of picking a smoking hot babe at the bar last night.

This is the world we live in.