While I suppose that was true then, and still is probably true now, I feel like there is a swampy, country American sound to it that actually is evocative of the American soul of the 20th century in an America-loving way. It perhaps paved the way for harmful alternative thinking and social trends that grew worse as time went by but in today's world, it takes you back to a better time in United States history and seems to be loved and appreciated by conservative-minded/old-fashioned Americans in a way it may not have been back then.
You can't beat swampy, country American landscapes
We need to reconnect with nature, go to a festival with some live music and put OUR PHONES DOWN
All over the country are deserted social sites like roller-rinks. They used to be places for communities to bond and make memories. You might meet your wife at such a place. You might meet the guy you give yourself to for the first time. Maybe it didn't work out but at least you were making love, which stats say is happening in lower amounts than previous decades--which is a trend marriage rates are following. Marriages are happening less. People are taking longer to marry if they ever do at all (which may be a blessing from God that will make sense as time goes by)
Life and society literally moved on and abandoned all sorts of these locations throughout the country. Why have heritage and continuity in a meaningful place when you can move elsewhere and build something newer and fancier? I think multiple things caused society to change and move on from so many places. Some things were intentional, some things were unintended consequences of behavior.
Treasures for adventure have been present all over the country and existence simply moved on from them, to the detriment of society (IMO). People gathered, they experienced. They lived. All without the use or creation of the internet and social media. Has the world ever been so openly before the individual yet felt so empty, fake and meaningless?
In the way the entertainment industry largely moved away from practical effects to create grander images with CGI, the experience of entertainment became hollow, as it should, because the physicality of it declined--this parallels (IMO) a decline in the tangibility of the soul of the United States over the past 50 years.
If you look through these great United States lands, they are filled with deserted sounds and relics that remind us how true it is that there was a time when the Gentiles were highly favored and we can see for our own eyes, as Ether witnessed the end of the Jaredites, that the Times of The Gentiles are coming to an end.
It is clear to me that the soul of the United States died and we exist in hollow remains
