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I believe the majority of Americans, if they think about it at all--and keep in mind that the ones who think about it are also the ones who take the time to vote--think that our cultural life has coarsened, or even debased, and that the sense of "values" that just 30 or even fewer years ago meant that the majority of Americans felt no need to lock their doors has been, perhaps irretrievably, lost.
Rosenman even dipped into the 12-tone techniques revered by the very high priests of modernism who thought his profession was debased.
We see the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and the vital.
Her writing since certainly confirms that rock 'n' roll was not her ideal subject, but the idea that the value of her provocative thoughts is somehow debased by her candor about her personal life, or by her willingness to appear topless on the cover of her book, is hilarious.
If the country is debased and decadent, the cure has to come from uplifting the people, not from acts of government.