- Messages
- 14,392
- Location
- Small Town Ohio, USA
This is a really good article - especially about the last 1/4 of it. I concur that everyone should read it.
It's the strangest thing, when I see a guy with a Hell's Angels leather jacket, I assume he must be a biker in the Hell's Angels. I assume that a person in the Hells Angels is up to nefarious deeds. Boy, was I way off. I should assume that his clothing says absolutely nothing about him. Sorta like, like when I see someone wearing a Green Day t-shirt. I assume he likes the band. Boy, was I wrong. Thank God for this thread. How people dress and act says absolutely nothing about that person.
Now that's just wrong!
It is indeed a part of growing up to realise that one's first assumptions are very, very often - one might even say mostly - wrong.:eusa_clap
I didn't read the whole thread.... but anyone who thinks a sense of entitlement is a modern phenomenon, should watch The Magnificent Ambersons, set in the 1890s but made in the 1940s.
See Orson Welles protest indignantly, that a job he was offered does not pay enough to support him and his mother in the style they are used to. And see the reply he gets from his prospective employer.
It was from a novel published in 1918, based on the author's experiences growing up in Indianapolis in the late 19th century. He was describing a type that would be familiar to his readers, and alas even more familiar today. Back then you pretty much had to be rich to be that spoiled. Now I guess everyone is rich or at least spoiled.
My point was, that this type is not a new phenomenon, it has been around probably forever. But in past ages, only the most privileged could get away with it.
As with most of these meme things, it's not the original incident that's the issue so much as it is what the Wisdom Of The Internet Crowd makes of it.
Laughing with or laughing *at?*
Same thing with the Epic Beard Man -- a minor incident on a bus got to where it says something really disturbing about today's culture.
Post-racial America, c. 2010.
I couldn't get beyond the three main characters are man-boy brothers who were never weaned off their mom's breast and dad's wallet. Film is subjective so maybe it's me. I guess one gets to the point where seeing men on screen roughly your own whining about mom and dad gets old..
I wonder if, somewhere out there, like the Walmart site, there's a web page with photos people have gleaned from the Fedora Lounge displayed with disparaging comments about various pictures of ourselves we've posted here . . . "Look at that old-fashioned-looking idiot," "Hey $#^%$ wake up it's 2013 ya know!" or "Nice grandpa clothes jerk." A scary thought for the day . . .
Yes, The Other Forum has already done that. :eusa_doh: