The people, engorged on ease of communication, talk so very rapidly & voluminously that they forget what the words mean.

"Honor your parents and ancestors,"
"Honor your children,"
"Do not steal,"
"Do not murder,"
"It is seemly to die for one's country"
"Care for the sick & the poor"

—The Old Words, that have been words since before there were words.

How many can be covered over, buried, forgotten?How many, before the society doing the forgetting forgets also the meaning of "society?"

That new law or laws you've been complaining about? That new fashion or popular trend? Those are just symptoms.