Generational Welfare, Obese Disability, Safe Spaces, Never leaving your parents house, wearing PJ’s in public. When did the human race lose the ability to feel shame?? Or turn it around, when did fat, drunk and stupid become the preferred way of life among the masses?
Same year MTV launched. August 1, 1981
OMG that preacher guy was right!
The first time I saw it was 1969 at Penn State. I used to do HVAC work for my grandfather (in the summers). The student body was dressed worse than what I was allowed to wear when fixing compressors and condensing units.
Still, as an engineer, I wore a tie to work – 1972. You wore a sport coat on a plane. About 1980 you could wear a sport shirt to work. Now all you need is a shirt with a collar.
Somewhere around 1990 it became OK to wear T-Shirts with edgy / mildly offensive statements. By 2000 it became acceptable to have T-Shirts with Fuck You…..
I’d say Stupid came about 2000 – the Darwin crowd. They figure the doc’s can always put them back together.
One the most slovenly places is the MOA – Mall of America in Minneapolis ( I live 20 minutes away). Go there on a Sunday – you will see masses of over weight / sloppily dressed zombies. Tee Shirts / Sweat Shirts / Sweat Pants. Add to this the Light Rail delivers Niggers from the ‘Norf Minneapolis Ghetto’ every 30 minutes. A sight to behold.
It has happened over a period of time. No one defining moment. But if I had to give a date I’d say November 6th, 1989 at 6:45 PM Eastern Standard time.
I blame the volatile combination of cultural decay (lowering of standards), reality TV, and social media.
Had to be in the mid to late 60s with the hippies and flower children as they were called. I remember many of them being nasty , stinking little things associated with the drug culture .I did like their motorcycles.
Who cares when? Just another sign of the decay slowly eating us alive.
Classy, we don’t have any more.
It’s either trash or sex as far as clothing is concerned and it matters not where it is displayed. Sad..
Muck
I believe that American society has been gradually and incrementally sliding down the slope to destruction since the advent of Progressivism in this country over 100 years ago. Slowly but surely, the Progressives (Cultural Marxists) have eroded and gutted the morals, gender roles, religion, mores, values and language – in essence the very fabric of the nation – in the hope of attaining some utopian society. Unfortunately, in their desire to create this impractical and idealistic society, they have only succeeded in creating a gradually and incrementally more frightening and miserable dystopian society. So it goes.
Downward spirals move things like turds being flushed down a toilet. At the beginning, the distance around the top is great, and the downward movement is difficult to perceive. Tough to to say for sure that actually it began in the 60’s, but there is no doubt the hard flushing downward movement occurred when the kids of the 60s began running the show. So that puts it on the first clinton administration.
Now if you believe it’s a commie plot, watch “Agenda, Grinding America Down”. It still lands on the same group.
Get up get out and do something productive or intresting to attempt to better your self or the world around you ! Stop the boob tube x box bull shit ! Slouch on the couch with the remote is fine but not as a way of life . After serious illness requiring organ transplant I was forced on Social Security Disability after 42 years of working my issue was not related to poor behavior . Entitled , yes between my employers and myself I paid 15% of every dollar I earned for that protection and still I work part time for a great deal less but I can still be productive and there are good days and bad days but I still have family depending on me ! Give Up hang out kick back , never occurred to me ! So get up off your lazy ass drop that remote and do something even if it’s wrong just move !
Probably about the time that hippies began suggesting “If it feels good, do it.”
LBJ
Two major components to this. The first is the worship of the almighty dollar over anything. Abolition of dress codes, the customer is always right, toleration of homeless people and panhandlers in the parking lot. Walmart is the paragon of this.
Another is the subsidation of low-IQ breeding through the government. Food stamps, WIC, public housing, affirmative action, scholarships, H1-B visas. All these raise the economic power of morons to unnaturally high level, allowing them to support broods of children they have. Anyone who works with the public knows that the dumber the person, the less shame they have. A fat, overweight, loudmouth dressed in a snuggie will throw a tantrum if their waitress forgets their extra ranch dressing; the millionaire will likely stoicly move along with their meal. I don’t expect the mouth breathers among us to realize how classless they are, but P.C. culture has forbidden us from the social pressures that used to keep them in check.
Decision in the Brown v. Board of Education 1954 (Justice except that IQs became PC and academic standards were driven into the gutter); Civil Riots Act of 1964 and anti-White male quotas; The Fair Housing Act enacted as Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968; Forced Busing in 1971 to complete the destruction of Public Schools.
In my lifetime, several things come to mind that effectively removed the negative feedback loop and logical and natural consequences for poor choices and actions: the women’s movement/birth control pills/abortion on demand; the Welfare State actually giving incentives for poor behavior; health insurance that covered every little thing, and pills handed out like candy, the No Child Left Behind mentality of federally run education.
Throw in all the media advertisements and the goobermint telling us all how no one should have to suffer any pain, injustice, rough times, tough love or inequality…that’s just a recipe for disaster.
Springs were invented somewhere in the 1500’s. a fact we would know if Stucky would get to writing about such stuff again.
The world changed with the invention of springs. Kids loved jumping and skipping, and old men’s hearts leaped up at the sight of everything up in the air half of the time.
They put springs in the shoes, springs in the clocks, springs in the cars and springs in the beds. The world bounced along merrily, much gayer than before.
Women developed a spring in their step and every movement was light and easy-peasy. Rabbits hopped and crickets jumped, dogs and cats leaped into the air and maidens, ah, maidens had flouncy bouncy hair.
Sloth
Greed
Gluttony
Lust
Avarice
Pride
All sins that we are constantly told are “rights”.
All sins that are considered virtues.
I was reading something a long time ago, along the lines of “The 7 character traits all humans should develop” (I honestly can’t remember the exact title) but I wrote the list down.
Humor
Imagination
Eroticism
Spirituality
Rebelliousness
Aesthetics
Curiosity
I have this list on my fridge.