Where are we headed?

I’ve been noticing some strange things in the news lately. OK, I know there are always strange things in the news, that’s what makes a lot of them news. It jsut makes me shake my head and wonder where we're headed.

Some of this stuff is what you’d have expected to see in the Dark Ages where science was the enemy of the righteous man. You know the kind of thing – the sun can’t be the center of the solar system because the Church says the earth is. Or we can look a little closer in history where, regardless of selected breeding in our farm animals to improve breeds, evolution can’t be real because God created us in his image. You know little gems like that.
Jump a few centuries or decades ahead and now science is under attack not because its conclusions are wrong, immoral, or blasphemous, but because they’re incontinent. Recently North Carolina has made it illegal to report on or make accurate projections on rising sea levels that will impact their coasts. This was quickly followed by Virginia demanding terms such as “climate change” and “global warming” be removed from a bill before voting. Then this morning I hear that a federal court has struck down EPA rules that limit cross state pollution.
So in North Carolina the legislature was apparently under the pressure from developers who want to develop coastal properties and sell them without future owners having any chance of knowing their properties could be under water in the near future. In Virginia, republican lawmakers are pushing their party’s stance that global warming does not exist. And, in the federal case polluters don’t want to be responsible for what happens to the toxins they spill into other states.

It’s all really about greed. Rather than do the right thing and building a better future for everyone, it gets down to me, me, me, me. And, now, now, now, now. When did we stop being innovative, forward looking, and driven to be the best? Just exactly when did this happen to American? When did we become smaller, blind, and without sympathy for our fellow man? When did we become so individually self-centered?
More importantly how do we get our big ideas, and change the future attitude back? How do we move back to a place where “he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother” is the aspiration of all? Where we leave a better world for our children and not just a bigger bank account? Where we inspire our children, and each other, to dream in big and without self centered blinders on?

I’m just wondering, and hoping we haven’t let the sun go down on the great experiment that is the United States.