Ben Stein on community

A blurb I found nosing around YouTube where Ben Stein — who I actually saw this week at the convention in Nashville — talks about our lack of community in America:[YouTube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=VE6XDVXeSxI]An interesting quote from the excerpt,

“And again, this is an essence of the culture: What you do in life is mostly get rich and it doesn’t matter how you do it as long as you do it . . . it’s ethical principals. It’s teaching community, hard work, study, respect for elders; if we don’t have those things a society cannot hold together . . . Fascination with Lindsay Lohan who, by the way, I see is writing her autobiography, will bind us together — I can’t, I already reserved my copy on Amazon — fascination with that will hold us together for a while. Fascination with the Emmys and the star’s dresses at the Oscars will hold us together; but getting rich quick is going to tear us apart if we don’t have a higher moral code.”