Me, Myself, and I

A rant? A teacher has asked us for a rant? Ask, and it shall be given!
This is most definetly a subject that I feel strongly about. Or, at least, I can babble forever about. Hrm. Are we, as a society, going downhill? Well, I think you need to have an end place to sort of "fall". Could it be bad that we, as America, have influence everywhere? No, I think not. I think what's bad is that we have that influence, and that we are spreading corruption to those places. Could it be that we know what is good and bad? No, I don't think that's the worst of it. We know that drugs will kill us, and yet we still smoke, and get high, and do all the crap. I think that the worst that America can get is when we have spread corruption, and we do know what's right and wrong, and yet we decieve ourselves into thinking that we're ok, or we're helping people. We are losing our morals, because we try to please everyone. We try to hide our problems behind a facade that we are ok. I think that, as a society, we, individually have adopted that attitude. Can you justify a stupid choice? We can't even get out of debt! I was reading a newspaper heading today, and, if I remember correctly It said "Did Christianity Cause the Crash?" When we can own up to our own mistakes, then we will be getting better.
So, to make a long story short, yeah, I think that American is going downhill. I think that's the only way that we can justify our actions so far.