Society allows what you see today.
Society wouldn’t have let it go years ago.
What is society?
It’s a percentage of somewhat influential people who would not let dumb, irreverent, way off... go on untouched by opinions.
It’s hard to let go of discipline, responsibility, honesty, modesty.... what is allowed today is what is tearing us down..apart..
There is no one to say NO.
One more thing.. I had 5 to raise... there were absolutes.. there was consistency... there were high expectations... there was fairness and understanding.
Somewhere... some good things were lost.. today is not good.. you all know it.
That’s a symptom of social media, because no matter how crazy you are, or how whacked out your ideas are, you can always find plenty of people online who can affirm your beliefs.
There was an expectation of people to conform to societal norms. That really started breaking down around 1964 or 1965 as the “counter-culture” ramped up concurrently with the massive Vietnam war.
A couple decades later and “tolerance” became the new mantra and norm. Now we tolerate everything including public squares filled with drug-addled bums, graffiti covered cities, rampant and blatant theft, families without fathers, unfathomable murder rates, multiple “genders,” and every perversion under the sun.
The “respectability rating” of old institutions like the military is rapidly crumbling. This will not turn out well.