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I'm full steam ahead myself. I am fascinated by the idea of Open Aging. But anti-intellectualism is not cool. Saying "she did a little dance and that's all the
by thenerdfiles 13y ago
I'm full steam ahead myself. I am fascinated by the idea of Open Aging.
But anti-intellectualism is not cool. Saying "she did a little dance and that's all there is to it" or even "she's just being young" is more obnoxious than the fact that she did it.
There are cultural analyses to be made, if not merely to gain an understanding of how activities like this will affect culture and influence opinion.
Cultural nihilism and cultural solipsism are less sophisticated than cultural relativism, and these probably do more harm than good. No one should really critique from cultural apathy — I mean, just, why? "I don't care, so you shouldn't either"? Really? That's just picking your nose at the Weird Kids table.
- haliax 13y ago> But anti-intellectualism is not cool. Saying "she did a little dance and that's all there is to it" or even "she's just being young" is more obnoxious than the fact that she did it. It isn't anti-intellectual to question the validity of any analysis. Your argument, taken to its conclusion, provides as much protection for the previously mentioned analysis of Miley Cyrus's dance being a grounded argument to make, as it does for my claim that she was subconsciously invoking the goddess Kali.