Sigh. These ‘more important’ things don’t just appear on their own. They follow the lesser degradation as surely as the sun rises in the morning.
We didn’t get to the lows where we are now because the date changed on the calendar. It happened because people were too stupid to realize that there is no such thing as ‘just dancing, ‘just a movie’, ‘just a pregnant cheerleader’ and so on. Everything is connected. Dancing, movies and books convey values.
We’ve gone from Elvis’ vulgar dancing, to Samantha Fox shaking her boobs on MTV, to Britney Spears doing a striptease on the Disney channel, to Marky Mark dropping his pants in front of screaming little teen girls, to Fuck for Forest at some rock festival. And similar decay in values has occurred everywhere else.
And after seeing this happen in slow motion people are *still* too stupid to recognize that this has happened and continues to happen. Those boring prudes who protested Elvis were right all along. Every decade since has shown this.
That’s too much of a sweeping generalization imo. You could go the other way and say that taking all sexuality out of dancing could lead to a society where no dancing would occur and no alcohol, etc. That could be a typical islamic republic, for eg.
As it is, the dancing is probably over the top but I still don’t see where it should be banned. As if that will stop anything. They’ll just take it to a non sanctioned place.
Your comments are very true.
People who say “we’re just animals” are the reason we are so far down the slippery slope.
Humans have a choice - to follow their baser instincts with no restraint, or to behave like humans - following the basic laws of morality which are enshrined in every religion.
Because so many want a “secular” society - a society where the only rule is “if it feels good, do it”, we have what we have. And the degradation is not static - we’re still heading south, at a fast rate of speed.