There were a whole string of signs of creeping degeneracy. Western culture has been spiraling downward since at least the 1950s. But we're near the bottom.
You're right, even back to the roaring twenties.
Look at Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. They were shocking.
Look at this degeneracy from 1933: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4MPdvnkC0 There's so much more around that era.
Oh dayum, I been around but hadn't heard of this. Nuts.
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