Throughout most of the 20th century, morality was not cool. It looks like the moral values had declined at each decade until we had reached rock bottom about the year 2000. I was born in a time where things were pretty immoral and free. We were accepting more of swear words, divorce, sex, and the internet was the place where anything rotten could be on there freely. Some of the stuff on the internet is extreme filth but people are entertained by that. It is not the free for all of the internet - the internet is actually a place where I can express my views and I can be part of the collection of thoughts. I am probably just a little mouse in the sphere of the internet but at least I am expressing myself to an audience of people that will read to me and maybe understand what I am talking about. Some of my philosophies about things might be pretty good and I am contributing to this huge brain called the internet.
I am lucky to live in the Web era and that is going to be a core of the 21st century and beyond. I doubt that we are going to live in an internet less world; there is going to be a internet by the time I am very old and about to die.
Of course, I am rambling about the internet but I can see something that is coming. The 20th century was a century of loosening of the values and it seems like it has been doing since the 1920s. The 1920s was a time where you can finally expose a leg and that is okay, but it looks like exposing legs and wearing shorts were not that common til about the 1950s. The 1950s was a time of loosening moral values with the advent of rock and roll, which actually decreased the moral values of the 1960s and 1970s. By about the 1970s, things were pretty raunchy and you can get by with anything - it is the free will era. There was a short time in the 1980s were pretty stiff and that was the Reagon era, and that might be a preview of the true worlds of the 21st century.
We do have some eras of modernity and formality, but it seems like things had turned pretty savage throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century. We are not pretty racy and raunchy by about the turn of the millennium, with lots of violence, greed, and decadence. It seems like the moral have fallen apart around the 2005-2007 era, where everything was about being a slut and being greedy, along with being whiny and spoiled emo kids on MySpace.
We are currently in the '10s era and it looks like there might be a moral shift. It was starting about the Reagon era and the Reagon era was pretty much the core of the new millennium 21st century living. The Reagon era was a sewing up of the Soviet Union and started to have the peaceful modern world with the information and technological revolution of the internet. The world of freedom is starting to come. But the internet is more than just freedom - It is anything can go on the Web and I mean anything can go.
I can see there is going to be a shift back to the conservative, traditional values throughout most of the 21st century. You might have some short liberal eras and there will be very weak, and I can see it is going to be more about environmental issues, not the social injustice of the 20th century along with the weakening moral systems. Health care and environmental issues, social services had become the "new liberal" of the 21st century and the defying moral values might be of the 20th century. Economic freedom might be high as well unless you have someone tamper with the system and it is most likely based on environmental and health, safety, and security.
But I can see the environment is important, but we are going to see a rise in science and technology, along with some moral, futuristic values. There might be certain things that are causing problems in our society, especially with the relationships.
It is just not going to be cool to walk around like a slut and we might be starting to have more "properness" to see if we are civilized, modern 21st century human beings. By the end of the century, things will be morally stiff. Of course, there is going to be more modernist look and we will be focusing on the morals, or it might be some sort of surrealist look in the future.
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