This has been around for several years:
But it continues to be true. The problems we see today are the result of endless causes. Figuring out which are the key factors to what we've become is a task unto itself. Admitting that something went seriously wrong, on the other hand, is simple.
(Tom New Poster)
ReplyDeleteAn age of highly-conformist behavior is often followed by a nonconformist reaction (Romantics against Enlightenment, 1920s v Victorian-Edwardian), but things usually settle down and drift back toward where they had been. The post-WWII era was highly conformist and so some reaction in the 1960s was inevitable, but somehow there was no pullback (except perhaps a weak and short-lived one in the 1980s), as there seemed in the other cases. I'm open to suggestions as to why.
I think because too many social guardrails were torn down completely. Now you have a couple generations of people who grew up without a certain social stability who are super conformist but see themselves (with their immoral lives, colored hair, and multiple medications) as non-conformist. Ironic of course.
DeleteI think because the rebellion against the conformity this time was accompanied by a rebellion against almost everything. Plus, it hasn't been nearly as grass roots as some might think, but there has always felt a purpose driving the rebellion as well.
DeleteBecause the era of an open mind became unlimited thus the gray matter spilled out.
ReplyDeleteIt could be argued. I'm not even sure common sense can be found today.
DeleteNot sure about anyone else but when I see a bun on top of a man's head I have this uncontrollable urge to cut it off and flush it down the tirlet.
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DeleteUnless he's Japanese and brandishing a tachi :)
If he was, he wouldn't be wearing those shorts and sandals and his name with be Belushi.
DeleteI have the uncontrollable urge to ask him what he was thinking.
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