Paul Johnson, the British historian, cites this as the day the modern age began in earnest.
He implies that the notion of relativity vis a vis spacetime was widely conflated with moral relativism and the world started down the slippery slope away from moral absolutes.
It is an interesting theory, one he supports further in Modern Times.
Me, I think everything started turning to crap after "Right-Turn-on-Red" legislation started showing up all over the USA in the 1970s.
It was the last of the era of self-control.
Licentiousness and chaos ensued.
LOL. Good catch on Johnson, who is so brilliant about so many things.
“Me, I think everything started turning to crap after “Right-Turn-on-Red” legislation started showing up all over the USA in the 1970s.”
Why?
Me, I think everything started turning to crap after “Right-Turn-on-Red” legislation started showing up all over the USA in the 1970s.
It was the last of the era of self-control.
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It’s an interesting theory. The law changed. And you can still get arrested for not coming to a complete stop at the Stop sign.
I look on this as one of many examples of convenience in modern life that made people fidgety and more lazy at times.
Air conditioning, microwave ovens, the internet, free telephone calls, mobile phones, Facebook, Free Republic.
Together they made life “better” in terms of convenience, but we lost some reverence for life itself in the process, less dependence on family, and in many other things we are poorer today than in the 1970s.
Modern Times is a brilliant history. Read it many times, and need to get a new copy (I keep giving them away).
I was introduced to Paul Johnson by the Reverend D. Force of a small rural black Baptist congregation. An exceptionally interesting man who made James Earl Jones sound like a soprano.