Moral decay in society?

[CTZonEdit]

When did the moral decay really begin in the USA and why?

Seems to me sometime after the 1950's that people really started to loosen their morals.

I have also heard that the Beatles caused it in 64 with their invasion. :D

[Jessie]

boy the beatles just get a lot of credit , but I think it was already here and just exploded.
did'nt they have lack of morals in the roaring twentys?

maybe it just started to really pick up speed like a snowball at that time???

in thinking it seems and of course I was'nt around back then, but a lot of moral decay was already within the family and was hidden. now its out in the open and of course getting worse.

the old adage...
do as I say, not as I do. a lot of hyprocrisy.

[CoreIssue]

Hmmm.

I think it began a long time ago.

But began coming together big time during the late 1800s when Higher Criticism began and it became okay to question and challenge God and the Bible.

They set principles that showed up in their children. The so-called Greatest Generation, which today seems more like the 'I am Entitled Generation.'

I believe they see themselves as the greatest because there were so many opportunities failure took effort.

Their whole focus was money, power and change. Which neglected their kids.

That generation, pretty much the baby-boomers and slightly before, became the radicals that challenged everything. Say hello Hippies and more.

And their kids are the largely the spoiled generation. Who expected more for less effort.

Now their kids are in high school and such. Need I say more?

How da ya like that theory?

It all began when questioning God became okay.

[John * Thunder!]

You all might remember the so-called Dead End Kids from the 30's and 40's
on TV. They were white, poor and punks. The mob used them a lot to do
little jobs, but as they grew up, they got better at it, and so it went.

Yes, it was in the movies, but life imitates art. And let us not forget that
movie Gangs, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day Lewis
about the Irish immigrants. LOL! I imagine corruption ruled back then.

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[CTZonEdit]

The vast contrast between the society of the 1950's and the one of the 60's where there is such a moral generation gap between the two that exists really stands out to me.

I recognize that society had been declining before. Perhaps its advance of TV and increasing mass communication that came out of these decades that make the gap more noticable?

Or perhaps the technologies actually help widen the gap? Look at what the internet has done to morality in the past decade.

[Jane Doe]

The vast contrast between the society of the 1950's and the one of the 60's where there is such a moral generation gap between the two that exists really stands out to me.

I recognize that society had been declining before. Perhaps its advance of TV and increasing mass communication that came out of these decades that make the gap more noticable?

Or perhaps the technologies actually help widen the gap? Look at what the internet has done to morality in the past decade.


So true. Plus there has been a huge increase of graphic imagery in television and movies in the past ten years. Kids can now see sexually explicit dating shows on a bunny eared tv set, no cable. As the generations go on we are getting more and more desensitized .