Posted on 07/05/2021 9:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude
Those comics were awesome!
Society allows what you see today.
Society wouldn’t have let it go years ago.
What is society?
It’s a percentage of somewhat influential people who would not let dumb, irreverent, way off... go on untouched by opinions.
It’s hard to let go of discipline, responsibility, honesty, modesty.... what is allowed today is what is tearing us down..apart..
There is no one to say NO.
One more thing.. I had 5 to raise... there were absolutes.. there was consistency... there were high expectations... there was fairness and understanding.
Somewhere... some good things were lost.. today is not good.. you all know it.
Zappa hated hippies.
Who Needs the Peace Corps
First I’ll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band
To go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lure
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
You know I have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the ____ out of me on the street
I will sleep
Yes, I will go to a house
That’s, that’s what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there’s a rock roll band
Because the groups all live together
Here’s Johnny
I will stay a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won’t care
I remember the characters in the first Mad Max movie 1979 that thinking society will never go that far. Those characters are tame to what I see today
If you’ve ever gone to Downtown Hollywood where the Chinese Theater with the Stars footprints are , THAT has always been ground zero for the freaks.
Hippies, Patchouli oil, stoners, acid freaks, Dead Heads. Complete derelicts.
In all though, back then there wasn’t a continual parade of weird and mentally ill people. There was some sort of etiquette and some morals in public places.
I swear, the trailers for Mad Max were scarier than the movie itself!
People seemed to be content
fifty dollars paid the rent
freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the days
Narcissistic People have been with us forever. “LOOK AT ME!!! I have to be the center of attention!”
If you don’t affirm their behavior by noticing them, they will continue to get more and more outrageous.
Just ignore them. That’s what they don’t want.
Most freaks lived underground or on a kind of show circuit. Gays met in secret. And most of their proclivities were done discretely.
What doesn’t exist, as much,in modern times is the idea of public decency.
The idea that “adult” type activity was kept separate from the public.
They protected children and women.
.
We normal folks at my job, joke that we may have to dye our hair purple and get a tattoo.....never in a million years.
It is disgraceful how far things have fallen.
The cotton candy colored hair is something you’d have worn as a prank or for “losing a bet” , when we were young. Now they do it every day. 🙄
The african ear holes on pasty white boys really is gross. Idiots.
🙄
That’s a symptom of social media, because no matter how crazy you are, or how whacked out your ideas are, you can always find plenty of people online who can affirm your beliefs.
I think it becomes like a game of one-upsmanship over time and trends towards freakier.
Guys getting earrings was still new in the 70’s when I got one ear pierced, the left, because piercing the right back then meant gay. Then society saw piercings move to belly buttons, lips, tongues, eyebrows, nipples and even the Prince Albert. Me, my one ear piercing eventually closed up and I never had a tattoo. The next weirdest thing I did was bleaching my hair one summer.
When we finally got internet a new world of weird opened up, at least for me after growing up in a pretty slow, old-fashioned area of the south.
I think the boundaries just keep getting pushed to be more and more strange.
Next thing you know, people are eating Tide Pods.
If you can remember the 60's , you weren't there.
And the sign said “Long-Haired Freaky People Need Not Apply”
The resident weirdo for the entire nation was Maynard G Krebs on “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” He adopted the “beat” persona, but wasn’t that weird looking. But nobody dressed like a slob like that in the 50s and the first half of the 60s.
We had “greaser” culture that didn’t conform, but they were largely restricted to big cities…
There were freaks, but they were called freaks then which made them at least attempt to limit their freakiness. Now freaks are called normal and people who aspire to be normal are called bigots.
England had the Mods and Rockers.
10 years ago people got A tattoo. A young slut would get a tramp stamp on her lower back. Now, the're like some sort of vine that grows all over the body. People don't get A tattoo. They get tattooed - whole body sections done at a time. Can't do one on one leg without doing one on the other, etc, etc, etc
And that's just the parts of the body that show in public.
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