10 thoughts on “American Culture”

1. Its just part of the “informalization” of society that has been going on since Victorian times. There was a time when folks would dress in their best suits to rise trains or fly on an airplane. Now its just the opposite, or do you still fly in your business suit?

   1. I think that taking pictures of your genitals and sending them to others goes far beyond “informalization.”

      1. True, but the very idea airlines would need to write dress codes would have been unthinkable a decade or two ago. Folks just knew better.

         http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/airlines-dress-code-controversy-cleavage-2012_n_1829989.html

         Airline Dress Codes Ban Cleavage, Shirts With Expletives

         By DAVID KOENIG
         08/25/12 07:11 PM ET AP

      2. Genitalia are not attractive. That’s why God made public hair.

   2. But Victorian morality was a reaction to Georgian morality, which was very liberal. So it is more of a pendulum.

2. Well I suppose a junkpic informs the recipient in a fashion…

3. What we are seeing here are symptoms of a larger problem.

   These are the actions of small children. Children do not think of consequences, or the future, they just do whatever pops into their heads. They are impulsive, thoughtless, and prone to stupid self-detrimental actions.

   Yet, we’re not talking children in a chronological sense here, but adults (chronologically) with the minds and mindsets of small children. They simple do not think of consequences, or of complexities. They do profoundly stupid things on a whim, and whine when they get bit by it.

   These sort of actions are a natural outgrowth of the urban-nanny-state disease, where the government does your thinking for you, and there are no consequences for your behavior.

   I think we can safely guess at the environment and politics of most of these self-developmentally-retarded types. (I’ll site Anthony Wiener as a classic example of this brain-rot).

4. One memorable summer term when I was living in a university student residence something more than two decades ago, one of the other students on the floor had a part-time job in a photo developing shop. They tended to make extras of ‘interesting’ pictures that came through, and post them on the bulletin board in the common room.

   Taking pictures like that isn’t a new thing. The ease of sharing/transmission is the only thing that’s new. That, and the fact that many (most?) people don’t think about how far anything they send electronically might go…

   1. As I recall, the thing two decades ago was to drop the britches and sit on the photocopier. Now, that photocopier is broadcasting to the world.

   2. Two decades ago you think these people would have used Polaroid instant pictures instead, but I guess they didn’t care who saw their junk.

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