Arguments like this one, trying to make the point of a decline in morality, rigor, intelligence or what ever, tend to use the post WWII world as a point of refe

Arguments like this one, trying to make the point of a decline in morality, rigor, intelligence or what ever, tend to use the post WWII world as a point of reference. I recently watched a Noam Chomsky documentary, http://video.google.com/videosearch?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=Power+and+Terror:+Noam+Chomsky&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=bwggS9ylBsiUtge0mOmxCg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQqwQwAA#oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&q=Power+and+Terror%3A+Noam+Chomsky&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=bwggS9ylBsiUtge0mOmxCg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQqwQwAA&qvid=Power+and+Terror%3A+Noam+Chomsky&vid=6909612995471559345 http://video.google.com/videosearch?oe=utf-8&rls=org.moz..., in which when discussing the history of social activism he made the point that the post WWII era up to the 60's was anomalous and that we are now settling back to business as usual. It is may be that this is true of many other activities. If we look at Victorian Era science it was rife theories and notions that were scientifically somewhat mainstream, Phrenology, Spiritualism, ..., that we now consider pseudoscience. It is possible that some of the points raised in this article may be contemporary manifestation of what will in time become pseudoscience. I think it more likely that we are seeing th normal state of science not the decline.