Writing on another issue today, Robin of Berkeley – a psychotherapist and self-described recovering liberal – provides brilliant insight into the sexual revolution’s “40 year love affair with the body, an obsession of the self.”
[The 60’s musical] Hair is a nonstop, aggressive assault on your senses; a veritable orgy of insults to the body, mind and soul. … Along with the unbridled sex and drugs, Hair and the 60’s unleashed a tsunami of rage that has only gathered force over time. In Hair, the performers were literally in your face with their fury.
Judging by the early round of comments, Sense & Sexuality has struck a nerve with the Enraged. Most people would pass on a site they didn’t like. Not the Enraged, who seem to say with every post: how dare you disagree with my PC credo on sex or my chosen lifestyle!
Maybe, as Robin suggests, they can’t help themselves.
Hair helped to unleash the genie from the bottle on all the impulses (if it feels good, do it!) and, like Frankenstein, created a monster. Now we have an almost feral society where people no longer know how to control themselves. And they don’t want to button up because hedonism feels so good, and pleasure is their sole reason for existence.
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We’ve had one generation after another that worships pleasure. They’re immersed in a 24/7 drug and sex culture, where oral sex is now the moral equivalent of the 50’s good night kiss. Girls swap their self respect for attention; and boys measure their worth on how many babes they’ve bed.
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Today the angry people of the Left are still enraged, but they don’t even know what they’re pissed off about. Being ticked off just feels powerful; it produces feel good brain chemicals like adrenaline. After a while, fulminating becomes an addiction, like cocaine…
Be enraged if you like, but we do disagree with your credo and the hedonistic lifestyle that goes with it. Get over it.
I was the dramaturg for my university’s production of Hair. I got a lot of things from the three performances I saw–love, community, fear, hope. “Fury” wasn’t one of them. At least, the audience seemed pretty happy when they were invited onstage to dance with the actors after curtain call.
I’d suggest you avoid Spring Awakening. It’s about teenagers whose lives are ruined because their parents and teachers did not tell them the facts about sex. It’s not a product of our so-called “hedonistic society,” either–the original was written in 1897.