Community losing sense of family

Dear Editor:
I’ve lived in Hamilton County for 68 of my 69 years. I now live across the road from my childhood home. 
I can remember back when our neighbors all worked together to harvest hay, silage, corn and milo. We all knew each other’s families, their kids’ names, their approximate ages and grades in school. I’m gradually seeing the old family farmsteads taken over or sold out to this younger generation of farmers, whatever generation you call them -- XYZ -- becoming a generation of selfish, self-centered people who don’t know or even care to know the people who live practically next door to them. I met one of these neighbors on the road just a mile from my house jogging the other day.  I stopped my truck and rolled my window down to say hello and introduce myself and this person totally ignored me and continued to jog away. I tried to speak, to no avail. 
How far we have fallen away from what we once were as a farming family community. In the days and years ahead we are heading toward hard times. The Bible predicts this. How will we survive? Will we help each other, or will we steal and kill each other for our own survival? 
After all, we don’t even really know the people that live in our own neighborhood! Our parents and grandparents who established themselves farming in this county by working together must be so ashamed of what their descendants have become. God have mercy. 
Jon Moore,
Aurora