Two separate issues. Whether or not someone decides to take action to better themselves is irrelevant to the fact that that we have been royally betrayed by the boomer generation, and not only that but standing against the tide of moral degeneracy is tiring and a ultimately fruitless pursuit. Religion and social constructs helped keep a lid on it for a long time, but thanks to the wisdom of the boomers we've abandoned all that because we're just so damn enlightened in the modern era.
So just to clarify your position here... in your view, the religions of the past and all the irrational, oppressive, and frankly backwards belief systems that came with them, were a preferable state of affairs to what we have today?
In case it is not obvious from the tone of my question (although I would still appreciate an answer! Perhaps I misunderstand you...) I think this is just a ridiculous viewpoint for a whole bunch of reasons, as is the idea that we have been betrayed by our ancestors. There are many other reasons you could say we have been betrayed (the beginnings of global warming, the extinction of thousands of species, the establishment of a hierarchy within our own species along lines of race and class and everything that goes with that, etc, etc) but the beginnings of a more liberal attitude to sex and sexuality is not one of them.
Remember that these "religion and social constructs" of the past that you are implicitly glorifying in your rejection of more modern ideas, also gave rise to rampant misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and just centuries of general hatred and oppression towards vast segments of human society. The fact that anyone can now google pictures and videos of sexual acts within seconds, is, in my view, and even if we can say that there is actually any inherent problem with this (which I think is very very debatable) a very small price to pay for the huge progress in other areas, ie, the beginnings of the end of the aforementioned deeply ingrained cultural hatred and oppression... which really just arose from ignorance anyway.
On the thread topic... no, porn is not "bad for society", and I do not believe porn can be said to objectively be a bad thing. The fact is, in the past porn could not exist in the same way it does today. Now, largely because of technology and a lifting of frankly prehistoric ideas about morality, it can. This is the same situation as a vast array of human advances made possible only in the past few decades by an increased understanding of what constitutes rational thought and the continuing advancement of technology... abortion, genetic engineering, social media, online dating... these things were not possible in the past, and now they are. We now need to make decisions about the finer points of the morality of these things, but with the understanding that they are and very likely will remain, to some extent, a part of life. Obviously, non-consentual porn, and those aspects of the porn industry that are exploitative and predatory are not good things. These can be said to be immoral, and bad for society. However, porn ITSELF, is not bad for society any more than drugs are bad for society.
Yes, perhaps more regulation is the answer, NO, the answer is NOT just to KEEP ON BANNING STUFF... It constantly baffles me how on a forum that is largely only necessary because of the current bizarre state of affairs where all but a small and random selection of psychoactive substances are effectively entirely banned globally, people still keep seriously asking if the answer to a social problem is just to ban something else. CAN WE PLEASE STOP TRYING TO BAN EVERYTHING?!
