But the reality is different from the way the thumbsuckers are painting it. The reality is that the military as an institution took the road less traveled and is now better than the society as a whole. But my gut says the military is more immune to the sicknesses afflicting the society. But it's not America's moral health alone which has me feeling this way about the future. And it's not the perpetual boom of the stock market, either.
Technological changes are certainly a part of it.
The web fundamentally changes our understanding of civil liberties and winning the war for libertarianism. Witness the intransigence of the American Library Association to allow porn blockers in public libraries. But I'd bet you my last TV remote that there's not a library in the country that subscribes to Jugs, Hustler, Oui, Penthouse , etc., and then puts those magazines near the kids. And I bet virtually no library maintains a vast collection of porn movies on hand. But I don't know if it's that either.