Supposedly the Roman Empire ended after one too many orgies. Is an erect penis on TV or graphic fellatio our own symbol of moral decay and our imminent demise? What does the rest of the world think about us? Woke gender ideology and future PMs who are unable to say what a woman is, cancel culture, gay parades, imbecilic art and facile architecture, reality TV etc
Perhaps I'm just an old prude, but to me there's something truly incontinent about our Western civilisation's behaviour and thinking. Here's a whole article about public pornography treated with earnest importance "Gender parity of nakedness is a positive shift" Positive for who? In the meantime 500,000 Ukrainians blown to smithereens and a likely similar number of Russians and 14,000 plus children chide us from their graves - we watch from the sidelines mush as we now watch penises, which is the bigger titillation and which the more earnest to discuss?
Do civilisations ultimately reach a involutionary stage, and develop an inchoate wish to self destruct, like the tired old man seeking to just fade away by not caring for himself any longer?. Like Biden, failing, fading but determined not to allow reality to intrude until the bitter end.
And re Biden, interesting isn't how one of his spokesmen suggested in supporting his continued candidacy, that Biden is, unlike Trump, truthful, thereby implying in the whole of the Democratic party there is no other candidate that can be relied on also to be truthful (and also stay awake at the same time)?
Divide them using sex, gender, colour, ethnicity etc: no real cost and distracts them from following the money...I was fascinated to see the LGBT etc etc parade in Swansea had been thoroughly infiltrated by " Doggie folk" i.e. ...guys who believed themselves / dressed as dogs.
It's a natural corollary of the whole subjective idea brought forth about by the "Trans women are women" bullshit: I feel like I am a dog therefore I am indeed a dog...and if you disagree, well, you are some kind of illiberal "Cynophobe". Maybe this is the apogee where the punters work out the lunacy of the whole dumb principle?
An erect penis on TV is a drop in the ocean when you consider that most parents allow their children devices which contain unrestricted access to every type of pornography and perversity imaginable. There is no age limit on owning a smartphone...the damage to young minds is unprecedented.
'Mainstream commercial' isn't so 'mainstream' any more and is increasing irrelevant, as is the Guardian and other rags. Our 'culture' is a contradictory/schizophrenic mix of pornographic excess and shame-enducing prudishness. Nothing wrong with nudity except when it's fetishised/demonised in equal measure.
The Babe has booked her telly for Wimbledon fortnight and I was astonished to see all the adverts phlegmmed on it and on the football coverage by CommercialPrivateEquitybbc. On the other hand it shows how few of them pollute my life - which is nice.The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
This may be a strange comment (of mine), but I tend to see the UK as a kind of a kind of “social laboratory” for the US - to gauge reactions, outcomes, etc., even if indirectly. Of course I could be completely mistaken.
on July 6, 2024, 2:11 am