Your point, dear Loran, is that the 60's started some perceived decline in society, via porn being let out of the darkness, rampant sex becoming socially acceptable, and morality on a steep decline. I've asked and asked for references from a specific group (that would be the academics) and you've provided nothing that supports your allegation. MY point is that sex and porn have been around for thousands of years, and the so-called 60's sexual revolution had little if anything to do with society as it is today.
The fact that porn has been around for thousands of years is utterly and fundamentally irrelevant to my argument, and that's the point. I already made an extended comment of your debate circumventing tactic of asking for sources for my philosophical critique of historical, sociological, and cultural phenomena, which you have not engaged. Your last claim would be little more than banal were it not so intellectually cowardly. The sexual revolution had little if anything to do with society as it is today? What you have just claimed is that history and the development of cultural attitudes and values through history are useless categories for understanding the present. You have just claimed that nothing of value regarding the nature of present culture can be extracted from a study of history, even very recent history. You have claimed that history is a useless frame of reference that has no bearing on the present. After decontextualizing the present and deracinating it from its historical roots, Harmony can now impose upon it any self satisfying ideological nostrum she pleases. Isn't this kind of anti-intellectualism fascinating.
Now that we know that the sixties had nothing to do with the cultural development of society up to the present (which logically means that the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and cultural developments within those decades have nothing to do with society as it is at present), We can forget history and just accept modernity as it is without question, historical context, or an understanding of the forces and developments among a people culturally, politically, philosophically, and psychologically, that created the socio-cultural antecedents of present cultural conditions and trends. Erasing or ignoring history is the work of the ideological coward who is afraid of what the past might reveal about the present, not of a critical mind that seeks to understand the truth and doesn't flinch what what it might tell us.
Its really very simple.:
We cannot understand the present if we do not understand the past and the past's relation to the present in the context of the origin and development of cultural attributes.
Claiming that the sexual revolution had no relation to the massive spread of pornography in later decades, the breakdown of the family, and stratospheric rises in unwed motherhood, premarital cohabitation, abortion, and a society in which one in every two marriages ends in divorce, is so out of touch with the literature, critique and analysis that's been done on this issue over the last several decades (not to mention being flatly counter intuitive) as to be stupefying.
Indeed, you could only get
this stupid in college...