Am I terrible for laughing while watching this?
By Snipzor 3 Comments
Surrealist News Reports of the 1960's, holy shit!
I'm so glad we've gotten past this way of thought... oh wait, no we haven't, not yet anyways, or completely.Well actually I didn't laugh, I was made sick by it. It made me sick to see something I knew of, it made me sick to see the media support the way of thought without question. It made me sick to see such disgust for a group of people, as well as seeing people being referred to in ways that animals are referred to. So very strange to see something like this, this is only 43 years ago. Think about that for a second, 43 years ago, I can't tell if I should be disgusted by this or if I should be happy about this... I guess a bit of both. This is only two generations ago. Let me repeat this, two generations ago we have repelled against the 1960's progressive movement with absolute hatred and disgust for a movement we should still be thankful of today.
But it also makes me thankful. Within that period of time, people have changed. The 1960's has changed people into eventually becoming more accepting, more loving, and less restricted in conversation. Hell at this same period of time, as referenced in the report, Great Britain was in the process of changing their laws and beliefs. Funny enough, it was an elitist who had learned from the social movement at the time, who had changed the laws (More on that at a later date). The point is that within such a quick period of time, we have changed our beliefs system.
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This brings me to another topic. Recently I had a conversation with someone regarding the human race becoming much worse to others, and I had asked myself a simple but also impossible question to answer. If we are becoming worse, then how is it that all the social progress was made over the past 40 years was actually made. I asked him this question right away, then he stopped and thought about it. Humans are very cruel, very angry, and very estranged creatures, but we are capable of this unity and support and love. This poses another question, are we becoming better? Then another question, how was this progress made if people were elected to support the status quo? My head hurt by then, and so did his. He had been paraphrasing his Environmental Ethics professor, whom I had met before. I wondered what would happen if I had asked these questions to her. I wonder what would happen if I wrote all of this down within a flow chart. No more thinking about it, it's tough to try to challenge hegemony when we realize that there's no real permanent way to fix the system without completely scrapping the whole thing down.
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I should simply take comfort that weeks from now, I will be able to hold my boyfriend within my arms lovingly without the fear of being harassed by a bunch of young people. Blissful ignorance is truly a wonderful thing.