Emancipation of Women=Major improvements in hygiene and health (and hence, beauty!)==Widespread sexual liberation==Economic egalitarianism - rise of wealth in Western Civilization==An increasingly educated population==Amazing technological advancements and inventions==The liberation (legal, social, economic, et al) of various minorities (people of color, gays, physically handicapped)==General increase in use of drugs==Acceptance of and desensitization to violence in polite society==Decline of manners, in general==Disinegration of the nuclear family==Rootlessness of a highly mobile society==Alienation of the individual in an industrial society==Shift to visual stimulation from verbal or written word==(Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson from Shakespeare and Tolstoy)=