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With more research, some scholars say, it may be only a matter of time before modern society accepts adult-child sex, just as it has learned to accept premarital sex and homosexual sex. "Children are the last bastion of the old sexual morality," wrote one of the trailblazers for this view, Harris Mirkin, an associate professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

The Devil is a patient master - he has all the time in the world. This is yet another example of the one-way ratchet in the decline of civilization. All change is in the direction of more depravity, and nothing ever changes back in the opposite direction. Drop by drop, the stone is worn away.

All change is not in the direction of depravity.

Although the depravity of these academics is beyond dispute, the fact is clear that child abuse, both physical and sexual, has been consistently declining for generations.

Treatment of children that would have been unremarkable 100 years ago would be cause for criminal prosecution today.

While it is necessary to expose these perverts, don't assume that this morally mutant minority will thrive anywhere beyond the humid hothouse of the university campus.

There is no reason to be that fatalistic. If we take a slightly longer perspective than our own brief time on this earth, we can see the cycles of society and gain a more hopeful perspective. Just as an example, the English went from a licentious society in the 1700s to a very moralistic and straight-laced society in the Victorian era of the 1800s. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” is true not just in physics but also on sociology.

One of the most hopeful factors in favor of the reaction we are looking for is the overthrow of the “gatekeepers.” That is what I call the mainstream media who have, for the past half-century dominated and controlled the flow of information. They were able to define the terms of debate and marginalize the dissident by excluding them from the public forum. The right felt isolated, as the left’s voices were the only ones heard.

Thanks to this magic medium were a using right now – the Internet – the right is no longer unheard and frozen out of the public forum. Look what just a handful of Freepers are doing by communicating, and then going out into the street and demonstrating. Twenty years ago the idea of a conservative demonstration would have been considered an oxymoron. Even I, during the last election went to a street corner with my wife waving a SoreLoserman sign.

Remember, dispair is not just a sin, it is unnecessary.

This is yet another example of the one-way ratchet in the decline of civilization. All change is in the direction of more depravity, and nothing ever changes back in the opposite direction.

So much for hoping the moral pendulum was beginning to swing back in the other direction.

Things do tend to move in cycles, and there's (mostly) nothing new under the sun.

A lot of the good old days weren't as good as we look back on them as being.

Remember Genghis Khan? Adolph Hitler? The Civil War? Child labor? Roman entertainment? The Inquisition? Things don't only go in one direction; they do sometimes get better.