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.
After the past 7 or 8 years, you need one of those tee-shirts that says "I need some new conspiracies because all of my other ones were proven to be true". Your mom would probably love that. ;)
Hang in there fren. It's gonna suck for a while, but then things will be better than we ever dared dream.
thanks fren. I'm actually insanely good at staying positive about life in general. i'm very comfortable with the big picture. its just my own part in it that gets me puzzled. but faith has brought me this far, and i've got lots of it