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"Please explain the date reference??"

Well, I probably should have said "approximately 1968" but it does seem to me that that's the year the lid really came off.

I grew up in Manhattan and until the mid-sixties we lived in peace, the doors of Churches stood open during the day and life was basically normal.

Starting at that time chaos of all varieties seemed to begin to flouish. Divorce was made easily obtainable, crime increased dramitcally and all the churches were locked up tight to guard against theft and assualt. Then RFK and MLK were assissinated (and even if one didn't like or agree with them brutal murder is never a good thing), we had the hippie drug/sex fest "summer of love" and it just seems to me that that's when all this modern dis-harmony started.

Now, I am aware that all the dubious philosophies propounded today have roots that go way back. But it still seems to me that some unarticulated, possible unknown, thing or force took hold of the zeitgeist in 1968 and it has held sway since that time.

But you know, I still live in the NY Metro area, which would included Philly too, broadly speaking, so maybe it's just the Urban East-coasters (and their counterparts on the left coast, of course) who have been nuts for 25 years.