Culture wars
2004-12-23 02:58:59.629219+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Over at Pursed Lips, Debra has an entry where she looks at Kinsey and muses about what her web experience would be in the days of the Comstock laws. It's some worthwhile musing. Heck, "community standards" have changed a hell of a lot in the past decade and a half; I remember BBS operators being tried for obscenity in whatever jurisdiction the prosecutor thought would be most advantageous, something we don't really think about much nowadays.
However, one of the recent memes has been that the "culture war" is over, and "conservatives" lost. This is a view most often put forward by the aforementioned "conservatives" (ie: David Horowitz quoted in this article). Another debating tactic I've run into recently is those same people saying "look at all we've given up, you should compromise too".
Yes, we've made tremendous strides in the past 50 years. But in terms of the macro scale of cultural change we've taken a beachhead at Normandy, and we've still got to get all the way through France and a good portion of Germany before we take Berlin.