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Here is what I call the "30 year" test. It can and should be applied to many Cultural War issues that arise in America, every day, in so many towns and cities these days.

First, truthfully analyze general American social aspects of the year 1975. In America. In terms of crime statistics, broken families, STDs, school dropout rates, wife-beating, single moms/deadbeat dads, overall obscenity, drug use, divorce, cohabitation, illegitime children, abortion, filthy lyrics in popular songs on the AM, swear words on TV, etc.

If the conclusion one can come to is that the quality of moral life in America was BETTER 30 years ago, and one accepts the premise that American movies/television and fads have a strong social impact in shaping us as a people, then ask if that specific thing that is now proposed in 2005 (such as a visit by really nothing more than a glorified amateur **** movie actress to an American junior high school), would have been accepted or even entertained as an idea in 1975 by American Society then.

If the answer is no, and since that past American society was empirically shown to be morally superior, then the answer to whether or not such a proposed program should proceed in 2005, (such as legitimizing the morality of Paris Hilton), is accordingly answered IMHO.

The answer is "no".

Who says we cannot turn American society BACKWARDS to the days when it was, without a doubt, GREATER?