My other prediction: by the year 2034, we will all be driving flying cars.
Originally Posted by Mr Peabody
Have you seen how Austinites drive (I use the term loosely)? If flying cars take off, I'm moving underground!
Regarding the morality of body modding...
I doubt all of the outrage is that people are exercising their right to do with their bodies are they wish. Certainly more than a few people see extreme body modding as self-mutilation - though where they draw the line is necessarily arbitrary - and I'll admit that foot grosses me out until I make myself take a step back and accept it as alien and only gross because it's not what I'm used to seeing. But others believe the only reason people do these extreme body mods in homage to pop cultural icons is because they're indoctrinated with what the critic views as "popular" beauty standards. More than a few woman (and male cheerleaders) like to feel superior by degrading anyone who enjoys mass entertainment and/or its beauty standards. To my mind this is just judgmental elitism, really no better than judgmental normality. It pigeonholes everyone who does or likes X,Y or Z as being mindless sheeple, when in reality individuals are diverse in their motives outlooks. Human beings are more than stereotypes. The hipster snobbery towards common commercialism is basically status angst in action, a way for those who fail at distinguishing themselves to contrast themselves against the mainstream.
There's a whole sub-industry of editorial articles and news stories dedicated to parading around people with unusual lifestyles or extreme aesthetics as "freaks" and selling advertising based on all the people that get a kick out of laughing at them. P.T. Barnum did it and so do modern media. I think it's dickish and juvenile, but it ain't gonna stop any time soon.
And, dude, that cortical internet port better come with the mother of all firewalls.
Love the topical Peabody avatars, BTW.