Interesting! Could this be a cause of the degradation of popular culture and of social life? Because nobody knew how to say "hey, these changes are not good". Because to say that was to embark on a religious discussion, and nobody knew how to have a religious discussion, in the public square? So a vacuum was left, and the profit motive had a field-day, and unimpeded by disapproval, and sold people debasing stuff  - stuff that at first only a few marginal people liked. But then it became available and was advertised, pushed. Then, more people came to like it, because of its attractions, and because there was no discussion against it. Any discussion against it sounds prudish and stupid. Because ... without religious discussion, there is no reason not to do whatever they are selling this week. Religion is the engine of disapproval and it gets in the way of commerce.

So now nobody can explain exactly WHY anything is good. Nobody knows what good is.

Therefore, the only remaining good is youthfulness, because youth is the time of innocence. So, to be good, nobody grows up. Ever. There are people who are in their middle and late twenties, grown women and grown men, vigorous adults, who stay "kids".They dress "kid", they drink "kid", they talk "kid", they listen to music "kid", they have sex "kid" and they kid themselves they haven't really left youth. These pseudo-kids don't want to be bad. They are afraid of becoming The Man. They haven't left youth, but they are young adults: adults, do you hear. Not kids. They have no idea what "adult" means. It is not their fault and I am not mad at them. Somebody stole it in the night.

Of course, they are under orders not to define their parents as old, by growing up, and that is part of story, too. Old age and death cannot be faced without religion. And, as you say so well, there is no way to discuss religion. So, they freeze the clock.