Have You Noticed A Lot More Americans Look Like A Frightful Hot Mess? | In my town, it looks like public slovenliness and disarray have become more of a norm than a subculture in the last three years
... For Gen Z and others who didn’t catch the site years ago, the blog People of Walmart posts humorous pictures of people whose life choices clearly began going south many years before they ended up making a spectacle of themselves in public. ... This is notable because there is indeed a correlation between one’s outward appearance and our inner state. I’m not talking about the things people can’t control, like being born with Grandpa’s large nose or a broader body frame than most women. I’m talking about the things people can control... All people have better and worse versions of themselves, and lately it seems a shockingly large number of people are descending into the latter.
I've recently notice people in church (!!!) wearing pyjamas and was wondering if this is something like a new trend.
... But it’s obvious lockdowns accelerated, and likely amplified, terrible preexisting trends. It will take years to quantify the damage, but just go outside and look around. It’s visible in Americans’ bodies, in their clothing, in their behavior, and in their faces. ...
Yep. The collective psychological damage caused by lockdowns has not even begun to be assessed.
... But advertising and movies are now going far beyond showing realistic imperfections or the diversity of beauty to pushing truly repulsive images. We’re not being encouraged to find beauty in reality, but to believe that what’s ugly is in fact beautiful. ...
At that point, we've got from mental health (a physical thing) into spiritual health.
It's one thing to end up looking awful because of poor mental health; it's another order of magnitude to SEEK OUT that which is objectively ugly, and actively DESIRE it.
Beauty -- along with truth and goodness -- are all aspects of God. That which destroys beauty ON PURPOSE is obviously something demonic.
It's how civilizations die, first very slowly, and then suddenly.
In my area, we already passed the peak of the hill, and have started our rapid descent. It's a free for all on the roads, and many are at the edge of their mental capacity, ready to pop. I've seen severe arguments pop off at gas stations over literally nothing. To me, it seems that the normies are starting to feel the precipice creeping up.
If I’m not mistaken, you and I live close to each other and you’re exactly right. The roads are dangerous anymore. Everyone that’s vaxxed is in a shitty mood all the time. Or pulling out in front of us to do 49 in a 65mph zone. They never look over when you pass, either. Just a death grip on the wheel and staring straight ahead- with mask in place, of course.
Sadly, this may be end up being the last year me and the wife are here.
Once the scare event/precipice moment happens, it's going to be UGLY in this area. I don't want to be around any of the violence, baited into a situation I don't have to be in. I'll do what I have to in protecting myself and family, but I'm doing what I must to keep at bay/remove the anger and hatred out of me from the past. I don't want to do something that I'll end up regretting later on. Jesus would want us to take the higher road, and forgive our enemies as God is the Judge and Jury. This is the path I need to stay on.
Yes. We stay to ourselves. Our family are our friends, for the most part. Thank God almost everyone is on the same page. They listen to me and my Q info. I keep getting “It’s taking too long” from a couple of my kids. I tell them it takes a long time to cast this big of a net. Praise God, all six of my kids have jobs, and good ones at that. Still, what was once excellent income is now barely middle incomeEdit: CA transplants have ruined this state. It’s sad.
That's sad. I'm sorry for you and your wife.
Speaking of the roads, someone in a red van tried to make a right turn from a left lane on a highway, without slowing down...and also while I was in the right lane. Dude didn't even turn his head to look if anyone was there, or turn his blinker on, just started shifting over, and when I noticed he was getting too close I swerved right and honked my horn a couple times. Thankfully nothing happened but I couldn't believe how out of it this guy was that he just wasn't paying attention to anything on the road at all! And this wasn't early morning or middle of the night, just right after people get off work.