Originally posted by kevcvs57I don't think it is "integral". I think it is ugly. I think it robs victims of their humanity on account of them not being "familiar". I think it enables the atrocities on the scale that they happen. I think it can be resisted. I think it can be rejected. So I certainly think it can be criticized.
Then explain how a phenomenon that you accept as an integral aspect of human nature can at the same time be a symptom of 'dehumanization'...
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Originally posted by kevcvs57Tell you what, let's see how many threads the OP poster and others [those that share his "fascination" with Manson and all the celebrities he listed, STILL, 40 or so years down the road] ...how many threads they start on much more grotesque things that U.S. culture coughed up in 1970, and I will respond to their expressions of upsetness as and if necessary.
...my question which you avoided before, is how much more upset do we need to be to satisfy your yardstick for a 'common humanity'
Originally posted by FMFI think you are wrong.
I don't think it is "integral". I think it is ugly. I think it robs victims of their humanity on account of them not being "familiar". I think it enables the atrocities on the scale that they happen. I think it can be resisted. I think it can be rejected. So I certainly think it can be criticized.
Originally posted by FMFGo for it, I await the Disco Dancing op with trepidation.
Tell you what, let's see how many threads the OP poster and others [those that share his "fascination" with Manson and all the celebrities he listed, STILL, 40 or so years down the road] ...how many threads they start on much more grotesque things that U.S. culture coughed up in 1970, and I will respond to their expressions of upsetness as and if necessary.
