Are we a little too tolerant?

I woke up yesterday morning with a start. My entire house was reverberating with some seriously LOUD cacophony that was threatening to burst my ear drums. I jumped up to investigate the source of this din. It turned out to be some celebration or commemoration that some community decided to observe in a vacant plot right behind our house. This auditory rampage comprised of an eclectic mix of Hindi songs of the kind that even the music director cringes when he has to listen to them, live music from the vocal cords of somebody who must be deaf or has been seriously mislead about his vocal skills and some devotional songs that woe betide everybody decided to join in. Mind you I have nothing against celebrations or music. But I fail to understand why it has to be imposed on everyone within earshot. My daughter sprang awake (well that was one good thing that came out of the episode) with a complain on her lips. Why cant we go and stop them, she asked. She even suggested that maybe the police can be involved in stemming this blatant violation of personal space. I chose my words carefully coz frankly she had voiced my very thoughts. But somehow it seemed rather harsh coming form her. So I adviced her to be tolerant as this land was as much theirs as it is ours. She seemed to get it and thankfully didnt come back with an intelligent retort (as happens usualy).
Which brings me to the crux of my rambling. Are we a little too tolerant. Have we been schooled in patience and adjusting to such an extent that we have now been reduced to become mute spectators to most artrocities.
We tolerate people who litter right in front of our door step. We tolerate people who defile our historical monuments with stupid odes to their so called romances or worse still some pornographic doodling. We cringe in silence when we see brats littering the place with beer bottles, empty packets. We tolerate people spitting at will, relieving themselves aginst any wall or tree- sometimes right next to designated places thoughtfully constructed by the government. We turn a blind eye to bribery, incompetence, mediocrity. We never call the advertised numbers to report rash driving for if we started doing so, we would probably do little else all day. We quitely swallow the indignity of people rubbing themselves covertly against our back in buses and trains, we shrug our shoulders in dismay at delayed school vans, we waste our breath with the delivery guys when LPG cylinders dont come to us on time or when they unduly charge us more than stipulated. I could go on and on..
Are we being a little too tolerant. Should we start imposing and more importantly enforcing stringent limits on what is allowed and what will not be tolerated. If we keep cribbing about the state of the traffic, the filth on the roads, the ineffeciency of our government but stay mute everytime a violation happens in front of us, arent we condoning the act and in essence being party to it. If we want to transform our country into a Singapore for example then we need to emulate their stict laws on anti-littering or anti-corruption. We all need to put a stop to "adjusting" and start becoming intolerant to all the small "crimes" that keep pulling India back.