http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/britney_anna_nicole_and_the_fu.html
January 06, 2008
Britney, Anna Nicole and the Future of America
By Bob Weir
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Rob and Laura Petrie walked into the bedroom, doffed their robes, revealing full-length cotton pajamas, gave each other a peck on the lips and retired for the night, in separate beds. That was the public state of our morals in the fifties and early sixties. The Dick Van Dyke Show was one of the top shows in the Nielson ratings during a time when America’s standards of decency were suitable entertainment for every age group.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had a zany but loving relationship which was always humorous without ever being licentious. Parents could watch television with their children and have no fear that their innocence would be stolen with the turn of a knob. Forty years later, we have “advanced” to scantily clad women and men jumping into bed with (and on) each other and leaving little to the imagination about their lustful purposes.
Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity to shock their way to fame and fortune. Partially nude bodies, undulating in paroxysms of feigned passion was once restricted to X-rated movies on the side streets of the big cities. Now, it’s available with a stroke of the remote or thrust into plain view with a click of the mouse.
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This really resonates!
When one thinks of the end of the Roman Empire, debauchery, debased currency, the absence of civic virtue, and the mob in the Colosseum come to mind.
But, it always starts much much earlier.
With the failure of virtue in the individual?
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