The American culture I have seen over the last few years has ever so slowly moved into the grey. What I mean is that there is smaller and smaller defining lines of what’s right or wrong, good or bad needed not needed.
I know exactly what you mean. What once was considered to be bad is now everyday life. You look at TV shows and what is allowed to be shown or music and what the lyrics are saying or suggesting. It's interesting how much has changed in such a short amount of time.
Let’s take something simple like eating food. I took this comment from May-June issue of Harvard Magazine.
"In today’s world, where we not only cook but eat a great deal of processed food that has been ground up before it reaches our mouths, we don’t generate as much force when chewing. In fact, for millennia human food has been growing less tough, fibrous, and hard. "The size of the human face has gotten about 12 percent smaller since the Paleolithic," Lieberman says, "particularly around the oral cavity, due to the effects of mechanical loading on the size of the face. Fourteen thousand years ago, a much larger proportion of the face was between the bottom of the jaw and the nostrils." The size of teeth has not decreased as fast (genetic factors control more of their variation); hence, modern teeth are actually too big for our mouths—wisdom teeth become impacted and require extraction."
Now this issue was in 2004 8 years ago. I spend thousands of dollars every year in Ortho bills for my children because their mouths are to small for their teeth. we can preform patch work on the problem so we can live in the grey a little longer.
i believe there are still areas that are black and white. look at wars for example. you are either in or your out. nobody is like, ok, lets go but lets do it when its convenient. or we get to choose which battles we fight. as a vet its not that i believe in war, but i understand why we go and am ready for the next battle
The American culture I have seen over the last few years has ever so slowly moved into the grey. What I mean is that there is smaller and smaller defining lines of what’s right or wrong, good or bad needed not needed.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean. What once was considered to be bad is now everyday life. You look at TV shows and what is allowed to be shown or music and what the lyrics are saying or suggesting. It's interesting how much has changed in such a short amount of time.
DeleteLet’s take something simple like eating food. I took this comment from May-June issue of Harvard Magazine.
ReplyDelete"In today’s world, where we not only cook but eat a great deal of processed food that has been ground up before it reaches our mouths, we don’t generate as much force when chewing. In fact, for millennia human food has been growing less tough, fibrous, and hard. "The size of the human face has gotten about 12 percent smaller since the Paleolithic," Lieberman says, "particularly around the oral cavity, due to the effects of mechanical loading on the size of the face. Fourteen thousand years ago, a much larger proportion of the face was between the bottom of the jaw and the nostrils." The size of teeth has not decreased as fast (genetic factors control more of their variation); hence, modern teeth are actually too big for our mouths—wisdom teeth become impacted and require extraction."
Now this issue was in 2004 8 years ago. I spend thousands of dollars every year in Ortho bills for my children because their mouths are to small for their teeth. we can preform patch work on the problem so we can live in the grey a little longer.
i believe there are still areas that are black and white. look at wars for example. you are either in or your out. nobody is like, ok, lets go but lets do it when its convenient. or we get to choose which battles we fight. as a vet its not that i believe in war, but i understand why we go and am ready for the next battle
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