Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.
The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.
Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
Cynicism has its own zealots.