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I find I look down on people who go to bars/clubs.
They somehow think this makes them "better". when in reality the only reason bars/clubs have such a place in our culture is because the pop culture media says so (which everybody must know, surely).
Bars/clubs should be banned, ideally.
I often go to bars too. I don't think it makes me better. I go to visit with some of my friends. I rarely get drunk. (At the same time, I don't go that often.)
People went for fun, to relax, and to socialise. There was no social/pop-culture induced pressure to go to them. If anything, many may not have, due to 1813 being more conservative and religious than today.
You tell me where the attitude that it's "inherently" virtuous to go to bars comes from?
I don't believe that anyone has argued that it is inherently virtuous to go to bars. That doesn't make any sense. Like you said yourself, people go to bars now to have fun, relax, and socialize, same as aways. Pop culture has very little to do with it (and what specifically do you mean by "pop culture"?)
I look down on people who look down on people who go to bars. They somehow think they are "better" than people who go to bars. And I don't even go to bars anymore. But I still look down on those who look down on those who do.
lol.. it's the people who go to bars who look down on those who don't, simply because you think you're cooler or hold some virtue that the pop culture media tells you is good. I think most clubbers are plastic people who should be expelled from society.
ha. lol.. It's people who go to bars who believe they're the cream since they're executing a "cool" activity. they also fail to realise that it's merely a concept invented by pop culture and the media, not some ancient or supreme insight or wisdom.
Lots of places exist in which you can hang out with friends. And?
Okay, I see what you are getting at. But why stop there?
Why not ban movies, video games, shops, malls, basically everything that is not a temple,
Oh wait, there was pop culture involved in those too. Let's go back to the caves then.
Okay, I see what you are getting at. But why stop there?
Why not ban movies, video games, shops, malls, basically everything that is not a temple,
Oh wait, there was pop culture involved in those too. Let's go back to the caves then.
Why not?
though I will say that movies (at least in the Hollywood sense) are art for mass profit. Shops and malls exist due to economics (resources need to be distributed). Shops existed long before popular culture did.
this may be true, but attitudes to bars/taverns in antiquity were different to today. There was no pop culture in 100AD telling everybody the "intrinsic" virtue of going to such places. This is the major reason why persons today go.
Good for you.
Okay, where should we go ol-wise sage. At what virtuous holy grail of enlightenment shall us souls gather at.
(Do not say Church or else I will have to call you out for misrepresentation)
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