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Originally Posted by acousticrock87
Right, but I think it builds over generations. In America, at least, your generation was still more dangerous than the previous one.
It's kind of like censorship on TV. It starts out with little blips here and there, letting a shoulder slip, then a few mild swear word, and eventually no one cares about anything anymore. Not that that's a bad thing, but it seemed like a decent metaphor. If a bored and angry kid grows up to be a bored and angry father, there's a good chance he'll raise an even angrier kid.
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I agree that there seems to be an accumulation of cuntishness as time moves on. But then we can look at the Victorian era where things were clearly
far worse than they are now. The seventies, when I was growing up, is another interesting period. That was an
extremely violent decade, but in a very different way to the way in which violence seems to exist today. I remember football hooligans, skinheads, people getting mugged by rastas. But school children simply weren't a group that were feared then the way they are now.