Really it does, the media has a great effect on society.
Sure it does. And in the Victorian days
a glimpse of stocking was very shocking. Yet, they still used beautiful women to sell things and very often, for their day, in a suggestive manner. It was the look on a woman's face that told the story back then. Check it out. So what time is it exactly that you want to go back to?
How can you relax when everything you know is going away...I feel I need to try and tell people about it. Trends are trends....based in time...finishing in time...but most people are thinking for today. People in general are not looking in the scope they need to see the trends....
What is "everything you know" if everything is already so ****ed up? Could it be that this "ideal" you pursue, which no one I have seen here shares, never existed and cannot exist in a free society? Does it bother you at all that the closest a community has come to exercising your worldview has been the Taliban? Think about it.