Thursdays in the height of summer, are possibly the most perfect time of the year for middle class America. I, on the other hand, find humidity and heat absolutely repressive; as repressive as Jimmy Carter on the television, or even more repressive than Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal style. I would rather have a beautiful spring day Jackie O style is Hyannis port, or an enchanting fall New York evening Viviene Westwood style. I find that as we progress as a more casual society we become less and less aware of our appearance. This is absolutely baffling to me?!?!?! This generation has been bombarded by society and the media. Selling to each new generation a new concept of beauty and fashion, style and aesthetic. How have they missed the boat? Is it because we have just seen our predecessors fall to the personal style wayside? Haven’t we all heard our fathers say? “I am getting old it doesn’t matter what I look like!” or “I have had 5 children its OK that I weigh double my healthy weight.” Does each younger generation just give up a little more than the last?
Funny enough our predecessors will quickly say that everything “wrong” in this country is because “kids” these days don’t do this, that, or the latter. Well if my grandparents were the greatest generation, what didn’t they do to make us the worst? I say that they laid the ground work for divorce, abortion, and corrupt politics. YET ,my friends, when liberal minded youth try to make this America a better place we are told that we are nieve, ignorant, or worst yet un holy. WOW ……well if we still lived in a world of “greatest generation” thinking. We would still have slaves or at least maids. We would still have spouse abuse,….oh wait we do. We would still have wars over seas….ok. So what is my point? Well if you shop at Wal-Mart I assume you don’t have personal style and that you are cheap. If being cheap is about being less aware of our personal appearance….if we are less aware of our own sense of self what will ever make us AWARE of the world around us?
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