Don't you think the people are degenerating?

I don't think that people are degenerating so much as society. society is in a pitiful state. One only has to turn on the TV to see that. People are only concerned with themselves and maybe 5 minutes into the future. Common courtesy is evaporating and the media celebrates decadence and rudeness. Look at the television programs. Reality shows of people "telling one another off". Younger people think, "Hey these semi-scripted shows should be a model for my behavior" and voila we have a nation of people with the mental and emotional capacity of perhaps a 10 year old. The media "pushes the envelope" to shock people just so they will tune in to see what the controversy is all about. You are totally right about the arts. The great painters and sculptors of old are gone and are replaced by talentless hacks who throw paint at a canvas or pile up scrap iron and call it "art". If you object to such obvious nonsense than you are "narrow-minded". We are inching toward lawlessness and barbarism. Maybe all of us "narrow minds" can get together in one state and build the worlds largest "narrow-minded" walled community.