People have changed. I recall in the sixties, waiting three years to join the local volunteer fire department in the town where I was born and raised. Today, that same fire department is begging for members and nothing has changed to reduce the number. People just say they have no time but what they really mean is, they do not want the inconvenience.
The interstate highway system gave new found freedom to people who traveled further in shorter time and once got where they were going, some remained. This helped tear down the family unit.
The local Kiwanis, Rotary, JayCee Clubs, various fraternal organizations like Masonic Order and Elks, Moose, Eagles, church groups, are not getting new, or very few, members and no one volunteers they way they did in the fifties and sixties. Why is that?
From the forums here, I've gleaned there are one or two who do little league, one is a volunteer fireman and volunteers in his church (they know who they are), but what about you? Why are you not volunteering in your community? Are we all so self-absorbed we do not have time to help in a volunteer capacity with an organization that gives back to the community we live in?
People grumble the community life has diminished but why wouldn't it when no one wants to volunteer for anything because they are too busy and I ask, busy doing what? I read posts on this forum and very few people volunteer but there is an over abundance of whiners about everything that is wrong with America.
