For years I have watched as the humor has been slowly leaving our country. It is as though a huge vacuum has sucked it out of our world. Comedians have lowered the bar so far I can no longer watch 'roasts' as I used to enjoy when they were first started on TV. It is pitiful to watch people laughing at themselves being destroyed by gutter humor.
Once we were proud of our Presidents whether we voted for them or not. We had pictures of them in our home or office. We honored the flag and didn't burn it, toss it on the ground nor make briefs out of it. Today we are subjected (by Amazon, no less) to Chia Obama. It makes a mockery of growing green, Nature and plant life to say nothing of our President.
The humor doesn't stop with Obama. The Clintons were not neglected with insults, presumably passing as a joke. Two Amazon offerings were annoying, at least to me. I find no humor whatsoever in the insults implied by the products bearing the Clintons' names. I am not prudish and accept the right of individuals to make and sell tasteless products. However, I abhor the people who would buy them and believe them to be acceptable to display or to give as gifts. It makes me cringe to think that, as a country, we have stopped honoring the people who served and continue to serve in public service with such disrespect..
Demonstrating the middle school humor, we have an offering of a toilet bowl brush. Not to be partisan, we have a companion item.
I have enjoyed the prepubescent humor of my several grandsons but none were ever personalized. I can understand the toys that make flatulent sounds as relevant to that age. I find it hard to believe my fellow Americans have replaced the naive child's humor when accepting their bodies and learning to be appropriate with adults. Bur taking over the attitude and personalizing it in such unacceptable objects seems to reflect a disregard and disdain for the office of the American President..
Once we were proud of our Presidents whether we voted for them or not. We had pictures of them in our home or office. We honored the flag and didn't burn it, toss it on the ground nor make briefs out of it. Today we are subjected (by Amazon, no less) to Chia Obama. It makes a mockery of growing green, Nature and plant life to say nothing of our President.The humor doesn't stop with Obama. The Clintons were not neglected with insults, presumably passing as a joke. Two Amazon offerings were annoying, at least to me. I find no humor whatsoever in the insults implied by the products bearing the Clintons' names. I am not prudish and accept the right of individuals to make and sell tasteless products. However, I abhor the people who would buy them and believe them to be acceptable to display or to give as gifts. It makes me cringe to think that, as a country, we have stopped honoring the people who served and continue to serve in public service with such disrespect..
I have enjoyed the prepubescent humor of my several grandsons but none were ever personalized. I can understand the toys that make flatulent sounds as relevant to that age. I find it hard to believe my fellow Americans have replaced the naive child's humor when accepting their bodies and learning to be appropriate with adults. Bur taking over the attitude and personalizing it in such unacceptable objects seems to reflect a disregard and disdain for the office of the American President..
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The level of respect shown to our political leaders has gone up and down throughout our nation's history. Check out the book "A Renegade History of the United States" by Thaddeus Russell to read about times when our elected officials were even more disrespected than they are now.
http://www.amazon.com/Renegade-History-United-States/dp/141657106X
Also, check out this short video where attack ads are created for the 1800 presidential race. Note that every outrageous insult used in these ads were actually said by either the Jefferson or Adams campaign!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI
If the problem is that old, wouldn't it be wonderful if progress could make some movement on it? Right now it feels like what many schools have become...teach to the least capable in the class. It is not Brave New World and we are not all C's or whatever.
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