I agree with you completely, snowy, and it's something I haven't been able to wrap my head around either. How we got to a society where violence and barbarity and gracelessness are not obscene and yet sex and nudity are.
It's quite disheartening when you really consider what that says about us.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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