- Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace. (Agnew was kicked out too.)
- There is now a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. on the national mall.
- The airport in Liverpool has been formally named the John Lennon International Airport.
- Gays now serve openly in the military.
- Schools and workplaces are racially integrated.
- Abortion is legal.
- Church attendance in the developed world is on a steady decline. (That one actually began with the Renaissance.)
- We now have formal relations with Vietnam.
- Rock hits are played (albeit in watered down forms) in restaurants, grocery stores, and even elevators. Rock music is common in churches, even in the south.
- The percentage of people living in nuclear families is steadily declining.
- We have elected a black president.
- Medical marijuana is legal in 13 (and counting) states and is prescribed by physicians for a myriad of ailments.
There are stories of lone soldiers who are stranded on islands and manage to survive for years. Eventually they are found as old men building fires and living on roots and berries. After a brief episode confronting each with helmet and gun, it is explained that the war ended years (or decades) ago and he is invited to return to society and rejoin the rest of us.
"Culture warriors" are like that old man. Someone needs to tell them that the culture wars of the 60s are over. It's time for them to return to society and rejoin the rest of us on the right side of history.
(Unfortunately the class war is another story…) |