Advertising bombards us with some 3,000 messages a day, promoting consumption as a way of life. The average American spends six hours a week in shops. Fracturing community . Americans are doing less together. Our ties to one another are disintegrating and it's showing up in increased crime,violence, and lack of personal and family security.
More people are lonely.
Eighty percent of Americans polled said they were concerned about the loss of community. There are approximately 200 million privately owned firearms in the U.S. -enough to arm almost every man, woman and child in the country. Breeding dissatisfaction and depression . Overwhelmed and seemingly powerless over the situation, we are becoming sad, cynical and despondent. The suicide rate for people between the ages of 15 and 24 has nearly tripled in the last 45 years.