When our kids know more about the Kardashians than the Constitution--
When Ke$ha's "Get Sleazy" tour becomes the favorite summer stop for the tween set--
When grown men share their girlfriends' concealer and eyeliner--
When parents name their children after appliances, fruits, numbers, and one of the five boroughs of New York--
When people nurture their virtual crops on Farmville while subsisting on Lucky Charms in their parents' basements--
You know we have a cultural meltdown on our hands (all of which I discuss in my new book).
Think you're immune to the fall-out? Not a chance. None of us is safe. Not even our pets. (Do you know who "friended" your Chihuahua last night?) Accompany me on a quickie tour of the seven rings of America's cultural hell.
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humansareinsane said on 22 Friday 2011 am31 11:15 am: Ke$ha's tour? Eyeliner? Naming children after appliances? What a bunch of superfluous nonsense. Here's something I find revolting about American culture: Indifference The “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave” has more people in jail than any other country in the world and time and time again gives up freedom for security. |
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Yeah, there's bigger problems with American culture than Harry Potter nerds and Muffin Tops :/
I like reading about culture but I think I'll skip your book, Mrs. Ingraham. While I do sometimes look at things like Ke$ha and muffin tops and shutter, I also believe that regressing into some backwards ideal of "tradition" is not healthy for a civilization that has already moved in to the 21st century.
To quote Charles Bukowski: "I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age."
The media now has folks carrying their pleasure devices everywhere they go so that no matter what we are doing away from home, someone is going to have a noisy a*sed cell phone blaring away or be talking so loudly on it that most of us want nothing more than to take said phones and place them up their obnoxious a*ses.
A slide could you could have added could have been ' Feeling slightly embarrassed about being so judgemental and having an opinion on EVERYTHING.'
After all why do we care about a stranger's muffintop or if a man wears (ugh!) skinny jeans.
We're all 'Mean Girls' now!
While the root causes are not exactly clear, there are definitely origins as to what these may be. The era of the Vietnam War, the revolution in the drug trade (which supported terrorism worldwide) and other associated events are very largely, but not entirely, to blame. We can't reverse these effects, but we can at least try to dilute these influences and start anew in the future, in favor of sound logic, values and *productive* advances in technology.
World changed. You didn't. Adapt.
I bet you are a hot mess when you are not on your mountain of entitlement.
I mean, geez, the well known Greek philosphers lamented how their young dressed and acted. Nothin' new here folks, move along...