Posted
1/01/2004 12:59:00 PM
by Douglas
Interesting piece on the
devolution of American standards. Sadly, not much of this is news.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, writing in The American Scholar a decade ago, described how society's increasingly relaxed standards were allowing more and more marginal behavior to gain gradual acceptance. He called the process "defining deviancy down."
Well, duh. When was the last time he watched MTV for more than 7 seconds? I did like his "top ten" list. II and V especially.