In my view, many of them have very little to do with ACB and a lot to do with the kind of world we live in right now. When I checked the trends that seem to me to exist, I found that there was a lot of evidence to support the hypothesis I was beginning to consider. Virtually every volunteer organization in the country is finding it more and more difficult to recruit new members. Articles on the subject focus on everyone's increased work load. They also point to the fact that many people are now having to do two jobs just to keep their heads above water.
Some articles also explore the impact of the information age.
They say that with television, the internet, and home theater systems, people are spending more time at home meeting their entertainment needs and less time involved with others. If we apply the same kind of microscope to people who are blind and examine the influences on them, the situation is equally interesting. Most young people have not attended schools for the blind and have been brought up in a society that does not offer them much chance to associate with many other blind people. The picture they have of blind people does not differ much from the picture the rest of society cherishes. It really isn't until young people are out of school that they have either the leisure or the inclination to examine who they are.