[WackyKat]

Most people today think that the level of morality was higher in 1893.
As Schaeffer shows, people in 1893 thought that morality was higher in 1793.
People in 1793 thought morality was higher in 1693
And so it goes, back into the mists of time....
The Greek poet Hesiod, writing in about 700 BC, complained that his generation was decadent and immoral and that the Greek's ancestors had lived blessed lives of peace and abundance.
My point being, most moralists sorely lack a sense of perspective.

[Maigret]

Your implication is that one time is as bad as another, and I don't believe history confirms your opinion. Does it go in cycles? Certainly, but anyone that was alive in even the first part of this century would be more than astonished at what is now deemed 'acceptable' today. Just tune into TVLand and watch the sitcoms from the 50s and 60s and compare them to the poison that is on every night of the week now, and tell me that our society in the last 50 years hasn't become a cesspit.