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Originally Posted by Winterfall8324
I mean even gender is now a consumer choice. People can choose to be whatever sexuality, they can buy whatever prosthetics, and all with the right amount of dollars.
Soon childhood will be based off of adoptions where prospective parents will search off a craigslist for their favorite baby with costume skin tone, sex, ethnicity, and hair color.
Investments are becoming riskier, people are betting their money on crypto-currencies like our economy is a casino, and movies/TV are so inundate with hyper-specific tastes there is no longer a shared culture. Everything can be purchased online with no barrier, even the Whitehouse.
If you criticize commercialization, people will scream that you should return to the stone age. But what happened to balance? Why go from one extreme to the other?
When will it stop?
All of those examples are exactly that, 'choices', many of which arose from a 'need'. Though unclear how what other folks 'choose' for their lives affects yours (not counting the impact on your traditional 'sensibilities' of course)?
Or perhaps what's really bothering you, isn't other folks' 'extremes', but instead you might just be feeling some growing pressure these days to 'adapt' to the 21st Century and an 'evolving' world (you know, 'Social Darwinism', and all that...).
I mean even gender is now a consumer choice. People can choose to be whatever sexuality, they can buy whatever prosthetics, and all with the right amount of dollars.
Soon childhood will be based off of adoptions where prospective parents will search off a craigslist for their favorite baby with costume skin tone, sex, ethnicity, and hair color.
Investments are becoming riskier, people are betting their money on crypto-currencies like our economy is a casino, and movies/TV are so inundate with hyper-specific tastes there is no longer a shared culture. Everything can be purchased online with no barrier, even the Whitehouse.
If you criticize commercialization, people will scream that you should return to the stone age. But what happened to balance? Why go from one extreme to the other?
It won't stop until we embrace our origins and traditional culture. We need the best of both worlds.... The secularism and Innovation of the West yet the traditional values and richness of , well everywhere else.
I agree with your first sentence, but the rest suggests a fundamental misunderstanding our society and from where it evolved.
"The West" isn't secular. It's specifically built upon Christian values. Equality under the law is a Western idea. "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." Monogamous marriage is a Western idea. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." Etc. Our entire social philosophy is based on Christian philosophy.
That's exactly why the Left is trying to "burn it all down," by the way. They want to destroy the West because of its relationship with Christianity and the values of independence and freedom which it supports.
It was then, 20 minutes after leaving the airport that I realized, in America, everything can be commercialized.
In Iran, anyone can be beheaded. Different cultures.
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