The old standby, “what has become of the world today?” in reference to a lack of moral chutzpah has always made me uneasy.
I do not believe that the world has gotten especially worse for wear as of late, just a bit more complicated. You see, before the Internet and all of these crazy new-fangled communication systems, our deepest and darkest desires were pretty much bundled up in our brains. Now, with mass access to a plethora of semi-anonymous venues we’re able to spill our deepest and darkest all over each other in and endless instantaneous cacophony of kink and vinegar.
Perhaps one downside to this is that some of us were exposed to the likes of Rotten.com circa 1998 and have been searching to out-demoralize the general online public ever since. I’ll see your Two Girls One Cup and raise you Three Men One Hot Air Balloon and an Interpretive Telling of The Aristocrats Performed by Your Childhood Mentors.
