I Couldn't Have Said It Better

If only I could claim credit for the following remark, which I stumbled upon after reading an article on how sex-obsessed modern life has become in just a few decades.

Re:."Who would've thought that Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" would eventually lead to gangster rap?” In 1955 my steady girlfriend and I did foresee something like that. We saw the substantive subliminal message in Rock and Roll ("Rock Around the Clock") immediately. Music, the most powerful of the arts carries its own more potent message quite apart from the lyrics. The Pre-TV generation of Eisenhower Administration and the 1950s were more free thinking and "liberated" than the conformist useful-idiots of all succeeding decades. We were not prudes, we just had self-control and a sense of the sacred. This freed us. The mass media provided a channel for the injection of a suicidal subversive culture into our populace and rendered them vile. They are now prisoners of the tyranny of their urges. I know no one that "lost" their faith. I know many whose faith was assassinated.

At least the remnant still lives and breathes, which means there remains hope for civilization to re-assert itself.