Quote: Victor Davis Hanson
|Posted: Jul 30, 2020 12:01 AM

Cultural suicide used to be a popular diagnosis of why things suddenly just quit.

Historians such as Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee cited social cannibalism to explain why once-successful states, institutions, and cultures simply died off.

Their common explanation was that the arrogance of success ensures lethal consequences. Once elites became pampered and arrogant, they feel exempt from their ancestors' respect for moral and spiritual laws like thrift, moderation, and transcendence.

Take professional sports. Over the last century, professional football, basketball and baseball were racially integrated and adopted a uniform code of patriotic observance. The three leagues offered fans a pleasant respite from daily barroom politics. As a result, by the 21st century, the NFL, NBA and MLB had become global multibillion-dollar enterprises.

Then hubris ensued.

One of his better columns. Right on the money.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victorda...n2573354?u

Related to his commentary on the movies...

It was over Christmas vacation and I wound up watching the movie Airplane. Love that flick, but I remember thinking there's no way that gets made in 2020.

- A couple black guys speaking 'ebonics' with subtitles
- Passengers line up to punch and slap around a hysterical woman
- Gay air traffic controller guy literally lisping and prancing around the office

No chance this passes today's Twitter mob without a heavy edit.

Motown, think of all the other movies that couldn't be made today. Even Mel Brooks movies have un-PC stuff in them.

(07-30-2020 01:48 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Motown, think of all the other movies that couldn't be made today. Even Mel Brooks movies have un-PC stuff in them.

unless Tarantino....