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Blame hippies

Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society

oh yeah that's right - society was just sooooooooo moral before the 60's -
it was a veritable utopia with no immorality whatsoever...

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Blame hippies

Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society

By Paul Jackson



My scholarly friend Herb Meyer contends the American Revolutionary War
was the greatest intellectual event in western civilization, not
simply because the British were beaten, but rather it determined God's
power flowed to the people and not to the kings.

Greatest intellectual event???? You're kidding right?

With that, insists Meyer, the rule of law and the concept of
individual rights were born.

If you were white and male you had the kind of rights that some in
Switzerland had known for 500 years and that some in Athens had enjoyed
2,000 years earlier.

SNIP

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Blame hippies

Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society

By Paul Jackson



My scholarly friend Herb Meyer contends the American Revolutionary War
was the greatest intellectual event in western civilization, not
simply because the British were beaten, but rather it determined God's
power flowed to the people and not to the kings.

Greatest intellectual event???? You're kidding right?

With that, insists Meyer, the rule of law and the concept of
individual rights were born.

If you were white and male you had the kind of rights that some in
Switzerland had known for 500 years and that some in Athens had enjoyed
2,000 years earlier.

SNIP

"Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trumpet@warpmail.net> wrote in message
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Blame hippies

Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society

By Paul Jackson



My scholarly friend Herb Meyer contends the American Revolutionary War
was the greatest intellectual event in western civilization, not
simply because the British were beaten, but rather it determined God's
power flowed to the people and not to the kings.

Greatest intellectual event???? You're kidding right?

With that, insists Meyer, the rule of law and the concept of
individual rights were born.

If you were white and male you had the kind of rights that some in
Switzerland had known for 500 years and that some in Athens had enjoyed
2,000 years earlier.

On 3 Feb 2007 17:15:08 -0800, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@warpmail.net> wrote:

Today, he sees the internal threat to our moral foundations stemming
from the 'hippie' counterculture of the 1960s.

The hippie movement spurned all that centuries of western civilization
had spent building and safeguarding. Hippies rejected material
success, and military strength. They loathed the consumer society, and
the moral values of the day.

Which is, no doubt, why that generation has become the most
materialistic, consumer-driven, moralistic one that we've see in
decades, if not centuries...

On 3 Feb 2007 17:15:08 -0800, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@warpmail.net> wrote:

Today, he sees the internal threat to our moral foundations stemming
from the 'hippie' counterculture of the 1960s.
The hippie movement spurned all that centuries of western civilization
had spent building and safeguarding. Hippies rejected material
success, and military strength. They loathed the consumer society, and
the moral values of the day.

Which is, no doubt, why that generation has become the most
materialistic, consumer-driven, moralistic one that we've see in
decades, if not centuries...
--

"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"

On Feb 3, 5:15 pm, "Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net>
wrote:

Blame hippies

Sixties counterculture eroded moral foundations of society

JAZZ RUINING GIRLS, DECLARES REFORMER
Chicago, January 21st

"Moral disaster is coming to hundreds of young American girls through
the pathological, nerve-irritating, sex-exciting music of jazz
orchestras, according to the Illinois Vigilance Association."

"In Chicago alone, the association's representatives have traced the
fall of 1,000 girls in the last two years to jazz music."

"Girls in small towns, as well as the big cities, in poor homes and
rich homes, are victims of the weird, insidious, neurotic music that
accompanies modern dancing."

"The degrading music is common not only to disorderly places, but
often to high-school affairs, to expensive hotels and so-called
society circles, declares Rev. Richard Yarrow, superintendent of the
Vigilance Association."

"The report says that the vigilance society has no desire to abolish
dancing, but seeks to awaken the public conscience to the present
danger and future consequences of jazz music."

"That the weird, neurotic, sex stimulating strains of so-called jazz
music result in a 'feeble-minded morality' is indicated in a study
recently completed by the Illinois Vigilance Association....

"Mid the distracting notes of the saxophone and the weird beat of the
tom-tom was witnessed conduct not hitherto seen outside the old red
light district.

"In full view of the audience, which included many boys and girls
apparently still in their teens, couples on the floor gave way to
almost every form of indecency. Dancers violently threw their arms
about each other, frequently assuming immoral postures.

"Lights were lowered, and to the strains of syncopated music action
that are indescribable took place. This is the full flowering - the
fruition of modern erotic music, which has so crazed and befuddled the
moral make-up of young people...."

From a 1922 article appearing the New York American, based on an

Illinois Vigilance Association report:

http://saintvitus.com/Jazz.html

Plus ca change, plus le meme chose.