My Left Winger robertdfeinman recently posted a fine article titled Pulchritude in which he commented upon the changing visions of male and female beauty in America over the past 50 years or so.
He wrote:
At some point in the movie some of the wimpy looking men get turned into hunks. The men used were all obviously body builders, with the classic Charles Atlas look. As a contrast, last week Victoria’s Secret had a televised “fashion” show. In this case the “look” was thin, anorexic appearing women with over emphasized busts.
We see the same change in other areas. Most of the soap opera TV shows (including the new series on prime-time) feature only one type of person. The semi-androgynous pretty boy or girl.
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Are we breeding new subtypes of people like dog breeds? Are people afraid to look like themselves? What does it say to a society when 99% of the people are made to feel that they are subpar in some respect?
I started a reply that grew WAY beyond the proper boundaries for such an effort, and so now I present it as a stand alone post.
Read on.
What do you expect from a society that feels the need to broadly advertise drugs so that its men can be reasonably sure of achieving erections?
Hell, folks, in most parts of the world over the history of humankind that has been the LEAST of our problems. Too damned MANY hardons, if you get right down to it. Testosterone poisoning on a HUGE scale.
But America is guilty; its guilt has made it weak, and it is presently…to put it country simple…fucked.
Fucked.
On a GRAND scale.
End of story.
More precisely, white, Northern European-descended America is fucked, as is any part of any minority culture that aspires to cultural integration within said white America.
Listen…a reasonable yardstick for the mental, physical and emotional health of a society is how well its members do in high level sports activities. Sports at their highest expression require the same effective combination of mind, body and soul as any other real human activity, only they are easier to score.
Well, white America’s score is headed down, down down, as are the scores of the minorities who live within that system and wish to become part of it. Who are being dragged right down along with it.
If you had listened closely to sports news and criticism over the last 60 years or so…and that’s all sportswriters really are, sports critics on the same levels (High AND low) as drama, book, art and film critics…you would have heard furtive whispers and hints about African superiority because so many black athletes had such great success in pro sports in America during that time. (Only whispers of course, because the BIG money lies in not acknowledging such an idea.)
From Jack Johnson on, really.
From the beginning of the 20th century.
Well I am here to point out that this is sheer bullshit.
This is NOT a racially-based phenomenon short of the undeniable facts that:
1-Those Africans who were shanghied to the New World were generally hand-picked for physical strength.
and
2-Those who survived the depredations of America for more than a couple of generations damned well surely had some undeniably great strength of both character AND mind.
But the real fact is that power breeds corruption, and ultimate power breeds ultimate corruption.
Look at American sports today.
Baseball is a Latin game. Bet on it. With a growing Asian population as well. And when I say a “Latin” game I mean mostly players who were born outside of the borders of the U.S.
What is the racial heritage of a surprising number of up-and coming dominant players in basketball and boxing?
People from ex-Communist Europe.
With South America and the rest of Europe coming on strong.
With U.K.-based boxers doing damned well too.
How “African” are the several truly international sports? Soccer, track, tennis and bicycling?
And how American are they?
Answer to both?
Not particularly.
The fact is, this country AND its culture…countries and cultures being essentially inseparable, really…are both headed down, down, down.
On the evidence of its sports successes and failures. (If one actually needed any more evidence than a cursory look at the headlines.)
And there is not a damned thing that we can do about it except to try to separate ourselves and our loved ones from the mainstream culture as much as we practically, survivably can do so and continue to fight for some kind of honorable lives, either by staying here and fighting or by going elsewhere.
To the ideas of NEWSTRIKE!!! and MEDIASTRIKE!!! I would like to add one more.
CULTURESTRIKE!!!
Black, brown or beige.
Get the fuck OUT of Viagra America, any which way you can.
Do not take its drugs.
Do not eat its food.
Do not consume its propaganda.
Do not partake of its usurious financial system any more than you must to survive.
Drop the fuck OUT!!!
As far and as fast as you can.
Listen…that recent set of headlines that you may have seen about how John McCain wants to fuck up the internet?
Co-sponsor of that little effort?
Charles Schumer.
Bet on it.
Please…READ THE ARTICLES!!! (A BooTrib one here and the Schumer connection here.)
Corruption on this level is the ONLY “bi-partisan” activity in America today.
It has been said by some wise people that there are three forces at work in the universe. The Constructive Force, the Destructive Force, and the strongest force of all…everything else. The NEUTRAL Force. On any level you care to examine, this holds true.
A competition between two humans? Between two cultures? The destruction of the dinosaurs? A star going nova?
The rest of the universe is basically uninvolved.
Neutral.
When constructive action is limited or essentially impossible and one refuses to engage in destructive action, it is often best to emulate that third force and simply step away from the conflict as far and as fast as you are able.
CULTURESTRIKE!!!
Sorry…fresh out of other ideas.
Tune in, tune out and fucking LEAVE!!!
I’ll see ya there.
Where?
Wherever.
See ya somewhere, though.
Bet on it.
AG
