Despite all the advances in technology and the inevitable but plodding progress towards a society that doesn’t treat huge swatches of its population like second class citizens who are allowed to starve to death, there is one thing that just keeps getting worse and worse. Something that is so fundamentally important to the development of our children and our culture that its decline in quality is a legitimate societal tragedy.

Cartoons.

Those of us thickly in the middle of our 20s were spoiled, spending our formative years watching Saturday morning cartoons that really pushed boundaries and tried to be as subversive as possible.