My research will examine the historical development of “indecency” in America as it was defined by corporate interests. Before World War II, tests for normalcy were created to segregate able-bodied workers from the disabled. Massumi and Žižek claim that neoliberal capitalism continues to promote regression towards the mean by absorbing dissident ideas and repackaging them for mass consumption. This is an interesting theory worth exploring within a subset of normalcy: cultural standards of decency.