More For My Friends Who've Been To Holland With Me...

According to this article from the Associated Press, the Holland we've come to know and love might be a changin'.

I mean, if what this article says is true...

...a politician said, "The Red-Light District is not the way I want people to view Amsterdam."
...the Dutch nation seems to be saying, "we should have values; people are asking for more and more rules in society."
..."Parliament is considering a ban on the sale of hallucinogenic 'magic mushrooms.'"
..."Increasingly, politicians from the more center-left Labor Party are among the most outspoken proponents of closing some brothels and marijuana shops -- known here as 'coffee shops.'"
and...
..."There is a more conservative mood in the country that is interested in setting limits and making sure things don't get out of hand."

Now, that last statement might be a classic "closing the barn door after the horse escaped," but all of this goes to show that societies tend to have pendulum swings in morality of the masses. From liberal to conservative and back and forth it goes. Think 60's to 80's to 00's in America. It's just the way it is.

But, when you think about it, all those folks who say the the U.S. is at cultural depths of depravity, allow me to say, from someone who's been there, we're still a pretty conservative lot by comparison.