Powell Memorandum at 50

[beechnut79]

(09-08-2021, 01:02 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-08-2021, 12:18 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(09-08-2021, 09:30 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(09-07-2021, 10:32 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(09-07-2021, 08:08 PM)sbarrera Wrote: Here is a link the memo, clearly a right-wing reaction to the "new left" of the Awakening.

https://law2.wlu.edu/deptimages/Powell%2...script.pdf

Golly isn’t it very obvious that the right wing won and for the most part continues to do so despite obvious flaws which the lid has come off of.

The left won the culture and the right won the economy -- at least that's the narrative that seems to dominate most discussions like this.  We may be on the brink of real change, but greed is hard to defeat when it has the kind of power it does today.

I am not sure that the left really won the culture. If they did wouldn't we still be in the "free love" mindset?

I don't think it matters.  We're still open about sex, and comfortable with consenting sex of all types, assumiing the consenting are old enough to consent.  That sex is now a mundane enough issue that it has gotten boring (or at least not exciting) makes the point.  Nothing is nearly as tempting as the illicit.

Sorry but this does not apply when it comes to paid sex work. In fact authorities have been cracking down on this even more than the drug trade and violent urban street gangs. Government seems to have created an arranged marriage between sex work (the more politically correct term for a certain P word) and the despised element of human trafficking of the mostly underaged.  It has been brought up that there are many who do this type of work of their own free will but so far no local government outside of the lone state in the US where it is legal  in some parts has bitten the bullet. One of the sorry results has been an increase in the incidents of so called escort scammers who won't accept cash for any of their supposed services. This is the lowest hanging fruit trying to attract those who can't afford higher end escorts that tend to charge significant sums of money.

My main question is this: First, now that gambling is nearly everywhere and marijuana heading in the same direction, why hasn't the sex work domino fallen yet, and when might it happen? Doesn't the PTB realize that prohibition of this activity hasn't been any more successful than it was with liquor a century ago?