The dumbing-down of America

I'm quite sick of catch-phrases like "the dumbing down of America" or the "culture of life" vs. the "culture of death". But this letter in today's Buffalo News is evidence of the former. Apparently, birth control started the "culture of death." That also, apparently, sparked "thousands of acts of physical and sexual abuses and horrific murders." I didn't realize everything was peace, peaches, roses and tweeting birds before 1960.