This guy hits the nail on the head

Grayson Quay, an editor at The Daily Caller, wrote a brilliant commentary on one of the trends I see contributing to the collapse of society.  Attention people crave and receive is creating what he calls an "an epidemic of exhibitionism."  Messages and actions are motivated by the seeking attention and validation from others as a form of acceptance in the form of likes, retweets, commentary and follows.  

Quay goes on to postulate: "The epidemic of exhibitionsism is rooted in the demand for total authenticity and the accompanying stigma against...well...stigma.  Each individual has the right, and perhaps even the duty, to bring the whole self into every situation.  To conceal one's kinks, politics or mental health issues is to submit to systemic oppression and 'respectability culture.''

Contrary to popular belief not every aspect of the self deserves to be revealed or celebrated publicly, much less privately.  As a matter of fact, most personality traits, perversions or deviances to the extreme left or right of center should be suppressed, judged and ridiculed.  The fringe is polarizing.  Behavior or ideas on the outer fringes of normal breeds controversy and cultural friction.  Without society's systemic oppression of cultural extremes and the peripheral acceptance of weird, all that remains would be a gluttonous orgy of unrestrained filth, hate and the indulgence of sin.  We don't need the masses of society living through a technicolor panacea or hallucinogenic LSD trip touted as society's great awakening.


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