An article on CNN has gotten me thinking about the swinging pendulum. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, it was the Swinging era. Everything was go, and folks let it all hang out. Few cared, perhaps because the lack of networks limited who could see. But now? I see us getting more puritanical. A judge has had to recuse himself from an obscenity case because he posted erotic pictures. Is this saying that the only judge that can hear the case is one against erotic displays? Isn’t that equally biased? A princess gets in trouble for frolicing naked at a college party? Isn’t that supposed to be part of the college experience? Don’t we expect kids to get their stupidity out of their system in college?
Is society swinging back to the puritanical? Have we gotten over judgemental?
