Posted on 10/29/2023 12:03:44 PM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
As I go about my business around town and to various parts of the state and the country, everything looks so very different from the America I knew as a kid and young adult. Everywhere I go, people look weird. Girls in their early 20s with bright pink, green, purple or blue hair, have half their heads shaved, or their bangs cut straight across in a “bowl” cut that would have been embarrassingly ugly for even boys to have to wear when I was a kid.
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Young ladies not yet filled-out/matured wear padded bras to pretend they’re more of a woman than they are.
Dream on. You smoking that stuff?
It’s true. The drug addled have influenced society enough that the younger ones don’t even need drugs to be idiots.
It’s a type of affluenza if you remember that term.
I never did drugs of any kind. But I know that many of us dressed ‘colorfully’, and you can’t tell a book - or what it will become - by its cover.
I doubt that highly. Actually I know for a fact it’s a bunch of BS. I live numerous counter cultures. Including the ones with anime hair girls. They’re not on drugs. They weren’t influenced by people on drugs. And a lot of them ain’t affluent. They’re just not normal. The only real difference between now and olden times is the not normal don’t feel the need to hide anymore. We realize we actually out number the normal. Then of course you all started going to our movies. And so now we wave our freak flags high, and anybody who don’t like it free to $%&* right off.
Take care of yourself as well.
I have a younger brother who is just coming to the rooms.
He tells me “I’m thirty days from my last drink!’’
I say ‘Ok bro good. Keep making meetings’’.
And then I tell him just make sure you’re counting AWAY from you last drink. Not counting TOWARDS your next one’’. :-)
“ They weren’t influenced by people on drugs.”
Normies today, which includes the weird hair etc… people, are all influenced by people on drugs.
Let’s examine your contention. Who are the “various counter cultures” influenced by.
Signs and wonders:
“If you had told me 20 years ago I’d see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair...”
https://youtu.be/gfTAOsRki0E?si=CUlMglwzRIUwMvzE
In 1966 when “intelligence” agencies sparked the hippie movement in Laurel Canyon and in other targeted locations, the strategy was to heap gasoline on age-old sins like rebellion and lust which had burned below the threshold of public acceptance for most of history.
It’s important here to understand how social mores have been manipulated.
The all-too-common—even cliched—cries of “but younger generations have always rebelled against older ones” don’t seem to grasp the idea that the threshold of public acceptance was actively breached in the twentieth century by deliberate and calculated operations of intelligence agencies. The result was an acceleration in the intensity and prevalence of bad behavior. As if these government activists hoped to bring back the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.
I should have said: the threshold of public acceptance was actively raised in the twentieth century by deliberate and calculated operations of intelligence agencies.
Mostly each other. That’s fun part about people forming their own subculture. They find like minded people and group together.
One thing to understand about the sub culture you speak of. They have a common motive for blueing or pinking their hair and cutting it in asymmetric patterns.
Their motive is a need to make a statement. The statement is “I reject mainstream culture,” and various different versions of this statement.
But it’s also important to understand that these blue and pink haired characters and their like-minded colleagues necessarily do not fully understand what it is they’re doing. This is evident in the fact that they wholly benefit and fully or partially participate in the very culture they claim to reject. It seems highly likely they don’t really know the nature or the focus of their protest.
This is not unexpected, given that their actions are the product of mind control.
They aren’t rejecting it so much as declaring they’re in a different one.
Really, I’ve known these people for decades. It’s no different than a band t-shirt, or team shirt, or any other form of personal branding. It’s simply declaring “I am one of these”. We all understand that we have to participate in the main culture (referred to as the “mundane world” in many of these cultures), that’s how we get the money to do the stuff we enjoy.
They absolutely understand the nature and focus of their protest, they find people like you boring, which is why they hang out with people like me. I’ve known weirdoes and outsiders my whole life. They’re fun. As long as you’re not the kind of narrow minded jerk who tries to explain to them who they are.
I’ve known these people at least as much as you have.
I will give you a snapshot of my past. God himself knows the following is true: In the late 1980s I was in a club in London related to my professional duties. Mick Jones and Terry Chimes of the Clash approached me and asked if I wanted to do cocaine with them. I told them no thanks, I’ll be leaving soon with my companions.
I’ve spent years around the counter culture. They’re as boring as anyone else, probably more so because their exploits are, as I’ve already pointed out, derived from an attitude of hypocrisy.
“ The statement is “I reject mainstream culture,””
40 years ago.
It’s totally mainstream today.
I think maybe you’re saying this too?
Your last two paragraphs make this point and you’re right.
I got that beat. My youngest aunt was a biker babe. I grew up around outlaw biker. Then I got into table top gaming in jr high. Then I joined the scifi world. Now I work on a scifi convention. I also hangout with music dweebs. And frankly they’re way more interesting than people who kneejerk reject them.
What you’re missing is that ALL culture was once a rejection of the mainstream. Even the mainstream now. Every aspect of your life was once a rejection of the mainstream.
Do you belong to a religion? Well that religion started because some people didn’t think the religion around them fit.
American? America was colonized by people rejecting European culture.
Live somewhere that was one of the original 13 colonies? American expansion was fed by people rejecting the “settled” parts of America.
And here you are on FR, a place that started by rejecting mainstream media.
Every aspect of culture you surround yourself with, your clothes, your food, your language, your home, your worship, were ALL at some point rejection of the mainstream. And some still are.
Rachael Leigh Cook
“Appeared in a now-famous (in the USA) anti-drug TV spot in which, armed with a frying pan, she bashed her way through a kitchen to show the disastrous effects of heroin.”
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000337/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
The only religions that can be based on a rejection of other religions are untrue religions.
When a religion is true, then it is based on and in truth. This is not the same as something based on a reaction to another religion or idea. The postmodernists haven’t comprehended this vital distinction.
All of progressivism (blue-haired ideology) is false because it is founded on a rejection of objective truth. This is seen for example in Epicurus, Rousseau, Hume, Emerson and Marx all the way up to the postmodernists and existentialists of today.
(By the way, where is the knee jerk rejection in our conversation, hmmmmmm?)
When our ways are accepted for their own value without regard the ways or ideas of others, then they cannot be based on a reaction to those other ways or ideas.
It takes focus, more than high IQ, to understand these points (although it all adds up to comprehensive IQ). So put aside your mechanically high IQ and focus. But first, put away the knee jerk rejections.
Sounds reasonable. But I was thinking, these days when I see blue and purple hair, it seems to be more than just a rejection of mainstream culture. It’s a rejection specifically of MAGA and TRUMP.
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