Patrick Hall
Practically Family
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I do agree with Lizzie Maine about decline, though. I think that as a culture, everything's become so globalized and sensationalized that the situation has become volatile and tense.
I see a distasteful taste for scandal which is amplified in our culture in comparison to others. But all cultures have distasteful elements, and it could be worse - we could be sacrificing virgins as part of our harvest rituals, forcing widows to be immolated on their husband's funeral pyres, or making criminals perform seppuku as punishment for their crimes. I affirm that our culture has a dark, distasteful side, but I think it always has. In fact, it could be cogently argued that our culture is much LESS dark than it was, even during the Golden Era. I just don't understand how the presence of that dark side = a generalized "cultural decline" obvious to anyone who is looking.