Scrambled egg and families

It is very difficult to meet and get to know people in Australia.

That's nothing new.

But I've also realised something new today: the problems young adults have are everywhere.

It is almost everyone who has these problems! So many people I meet are from blended families which are split up: spouses living with second or third spouses with one or some of the children.

It is just unbelievable the number of them. It is almost impossible to meet a family which has a complete nuclear complement living under one roof and in which at least one member is not on prozac!

Western society has become like a scrambled egg

Why?

More importantly for me-why is no-one interested? Am I the only one?

Do we see the media full of comment and analysis of the gathering speed of social change which has had drastic consequences for the human spirit?

What has led to the disntegration of the family into lonely isolated individuals who continously reassemble into an amorphous mass of spouses and children with no meaningful bonds: a coagulated mass where no-one has a sense of belonging to an entity greater than the individual self?

Nobody seems to be interested.

All people seem to want to do is sit in their cells in isolation, work themselves to death, watch the football and drink themelves into oblivion.

As an ageing and isolated 'unit" I am still very interested.

I am aghast at how this has happened.

I don't like being part of a scrambled egg.

For me, years of refection on this issue has only been rewarded with confusion, isolation and loneliness.

I used to think that we in the western civilised world were so sophisticated and advanced.

What a con!

Now, I think we are not clever.

Not clever at all.

Isn't this what the divide between East and West in the world is really about?