How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing. This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that "bravely" trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.