Which is why I don’t think the whole legalize and push kids to smoke grass thing is a great idea.
“Today I saw a guy in his early 20s walking through a parking lot on his way to his car. He had long, dark hair and a full beard. He didn’t appear to be homosexual in any way, but he was wearing two large hoop earrings, blue jeans that were torn to shreds, and an expensive leather jacket.”
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Full beards used to be on more grown masculine men.
Today, a full beard is the padded bra for males pretending to be grown masculine men.
When I had purple hair, it was still rebellious - in the early 2000’s. When it started catching on, I stopped and went from my natural blonde to a natural mahogany red. I find that when lots of people like something, I tend to dislike it strongly. Rap is a good example, though admittedly I like the occasional Tupac. The man knew how to actually compose.
As a pharma tech, I agree that America has become radically unhealthy. Most of our patients, young and old, are obese. My mom falls into this category, though her eating habits are emotional. Her life is incredibly stressful, and in her sixties, it’s far too late for her to leave her field (elder social work - no, she’s no lefty) and start anew. She and I are making about the same income, and I didn’t get to complete my degree in nursing, and I have no college debt to speak of.
Most of the drugs we dispense are for blood pressure and the heart, anti-depressants, amphetamines for ADHD (when we have them) and anti-anxieties, and now meds intended for diabetics are flying off the shelves if we have them at all. I’m honestly thinking about writing an open letter and seeing if I can get it published, because what I’m seeing is shameful. Meds that could be life-altering for diabetics are being casually prescribed for weight loss, and this is causing a huge shortage.
Sadly, this has all been allowed. Our leaders are so power hungry that they’re willing to accept any degree of insanity so long as it serves their purposes and perpetuates their control.
The current look of youth reminds me of modern art. The ethos behind it is it’s meant to repulse and be ugly. Now this is hardly new. The punks of the 70s had a similar look but in a way it was more like a perpetual Halloween back then and they were the rarity but even today there are still enough normies around so that I don’t feel the complete outsider yet. Maybe to the youths but not my contemporaries.
Vaping. Vaping seducing women....Jr. H thru their 30s.
Marked loss of female reason. Vaping. Addiction substance.
It’s all about, “Look at me! Look at me!” so I just ignore them.
Who says any of these people are on drugs? One can easily decide to checkout of “main society” without drugs. I’ve known lots of girls with anime hair that don’t do drugs, they’re just into a subculture. And guys with earrings stopped a big deal decades ago. I think this guy is just not used to hanging out with non-mainstream people.
Youth culture will always be about shocking the elders.
Yeah. They're called "public school teachers".
MUSH tv... we want your brain!
Tons of old ladies running around with pink and purple hair, and you’ve got the guys doing stupid things like psychedelic mushrooms then climbing into the cockpit, like that one off-duty pilot who tried to crash the plane.
Drugs are just a bad idea whatever the Libertarians or Left coast says.
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
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