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The fact that Kim kardashian balancing a glass of champagne on her ass is as news worthy as the first time we landed on a comet is indicative that our society has reached a certain level of shallowness. Perhaps it is easier for the masses to engage in mindless stimulation because we have become quite conditioned to it. Depth of thought is not something this society promotes at large as te values inherent to that are antithetical to consumerism
Chris,
Thank you very much for your comment.
Violent events in Ferguson – burning and looting stores, burning police cars, etc. – and in Los Angeles — attempts by marches to get on major freeways to shut down major freeways – following the Grand Jury decision not to indict the police officer who killed Michael Brown indicate to me that there are depths of feeling that are beyond common comprehension.
Likewise the recent events in Jerusalem – wherein two Palestinians gunned down rabbis while they were praying in a synagogue – followed by events in Gaza – jubilant celebrations of the murder of the rabbis – and in Jordan – a moment of silence observed by the Jordanian Parliament in honor of the two Palestinians who were shot during the shootout that followed – convince me there are depths of feeling that are beyond common comprehension.
The Taliban trying to kill Malala – the girl who stood up for the right of all girls to receive an education in Pakistan – by shooting her at point blank range in the head while she was riding home in a school bus in Pakistan – is another example of depths of feeling beyond common comprehension.
There is a depth of feeling by certain women that they have been oppressed by “societal norms.”
To certain women the taboo on women showing their body is a form of message to men and women that women should be ashamed of their body, and/or consider themselves to be chattel owned by men.
Perhaps those women do not “buy into” the idea that women should not show their nude body to anyone other than their husband.
Some women believe no woman should be ashamed of her body. To them, Kim Kardashian’s blatant exposure of herself – of her nude body – is a celebration of a woman’s body and a strong statement of a woman’s right to be herself and is both a sign and a symbol of self-confidence.
We ALL are in the midst of ongoing social revolutions.
The acts of ISIS (beheading captives, etc.), Ferguson (looting and rioting after the decision of the Grand Jury not to indict the police officer who killed Michael Brown), and Kim Kardashian (posing fully frontal nude and with a champagne glass balanced on her naked butt) are manifestations of some of those social revolutions.
Those acts and a society’s reaction to those acts are manifestations and touchstones of a society’s consciousness.
CULTURE is the bedrock of human action.
Culture is a key driver in how a society thinks, acts, behaves and communicates.
Cultural sensations are forces which shape how business must act if they want to succeed.
Cultural sensations are also forces which shape how a society must act/change if it wants to succeed.
In that regard, US Attorney General Eric Holder has recently said that police and police departments should not act or feel like an occupation army to the local community in which they operate.
Everyone agrees on the same “big picture: that what “we”/”society” need(s) is a positive culture, which enables the right behaviors, actions and decisions driving society which impact everyone’s quality of life.
Kim Kardashian’s acts are but one of many calls to action in a milieu of adapting to constantly changing conditions.