Times have changed, and it's sad, but most of the issue is poverty. You live in that atmosphere, it's not easy, or good for that matter.
Not just in New Orleans, it's everywhere. Thing that gets me is the meth addiction. I've had a branch of my family lost to addiction of that crap, blowing up meth labs and trafficking, it's so screwed up.
I beg to differ. In the sixties and seventies, there were poor. We didn't see this wanton disregard for life. The difference between then and now is that we no longer have a moral compass that we had in quieter times.
Video games have gotten exponentially more violent with the passing years, news footage shows us horrors that we never would have seen in my youth. Sex and depravity seem to be the calling cards of every news stand publication and silver screen offering. Our kids have become so jaded to what would have given me nightmares as a 13 year old, that they think little of joining in with what we've allowed them as a society to think is acceptable.
The church is no longer the moral bedrock it once was. There too, scandal after scandal has caused the majority of the world to dismiss anything the (remaining few) good men there might have to say.
It's up to us.
Stop complaining about the state of things and mentor a young man or woman. Take someone under your wing and make your neighborhood a better place than you found it. Be a big brother. Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Perform random acts of kindness.
Excuse me. Time to get off this box and live up to my own ideals.