We Are Living in the New Dark Ages

Sometime in the future, society will find that it cannot extirpate destructive cultural memes, pornography and general filth without banning all content created between 19XX and 20XX. There will be professionals tasked with sorting through the cultural artifacts and pulling out the genuine works of art. Due to the general level of discourse however, most everything is inaccessible including Facebook, Twitter and Blogger archives. This period will be dubbed a New Dark Age and relegated to the ash bin of history. Rumors of the content of these sites will be common. Middle school students will amuse themselves by telling their friends that people used to watch videos of coprophagia and it even became a popular cultural meme. The friends won't believe it though. They know the New Dark Age was bad, but not that bad. As time goes by and the culture is re-sensitized, even the exaggerated stories will become tamer, until the supposedly made up rumors of the time will be more tame than prime time cable television.