Re: NFL Refuses to Run Ad to Recruit Border Agents

> What I don't understand is why we have a culture that promotes shit
> like that. No, I don't mean football -- I mean criminal elements of
> all stripes and colors! I really don't understand the fascination
> with crime and criminals...I find them disgusting, not romantic. Yeah
> it's one thing if you're poor, etc. -- though I also think there's
> much more than simple economics involved -- but even the well-to-do
> thugs are celebrated. Just look at all the play steroid-using
> bodybuilders get...you'd think folks want to see real bodybuilders!
> But no, they want to see the latest drug-induced biceps...I've got 17"
> arms and that comes from working out only half as hard as these pros
> seem to...if it takes drugs to add another five inches, I'd rather do
> without!

Modern culture has deteriorated from classical values very quickly over
the last 60 or so years. Now our values are inverted so discipline,
intelligence, and decency are out the window and thug values are the
norm.

I guess that's what you get for having a diverse society instead of
one based on unified values that held things together for thousands
of years.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c4ac4a74-570...0779e2340.html

On Feb 13, 1:52 pm, "Steve Caudil" <scaud...@please.nospam> wrote:
>
>
> Modern culture has deteriorated from classical values very quickly over
> the last 60 or so years. Now our values are inverted so discipline,
> intelligence, and decency are out the window and thug values are the
> norm.
>
> I guess that's what you get for having a diverse society instead of
> one based on unified values that held things together for thousands
> of years.
>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c4ac4a74-570...0779e2340.html



I wonder...you suggest it may be a natural consequence of cultural
diversity in one society, but all these cultures seem robust enough in
their own social environments...is it simply the lack of a broader
over-ruling standard, or a consequence of what Spengler has long ago
documented as "The Decline of the West," in his books of the same
name?

Or perhaps we are in the midst of a new civilization being created,
and as happens to those in the cataclysms of earth and heaven, we're
simply but dreadfully caught in changes we do not understand....

BTW, I do reject the "good ol' days" mentality: there never were any.
Sixty years ago you had the world wondering whether fascism would
bring a new Medieval Age upon mankind...the Nazis, the Soviets, etc.,
were certainly thugs. As well as the CIA and American geopolitics,
which undermined democracies with abandon....