tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post7150117261204790630..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: The cultural euphoria from 2003 to 2006 -- was 9/11 the source?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-75396811256472764992017-12-18T12:35:57.358-05:002017-12-18T12:35:57.358-05:00It could be that the 2003-2006 outgoingness is som...It could be that the 2003-2006 outgoingness is something only effected the upper-middle class and rich. What we know is that there was a rise in white-collar crimes during that period - the housing bubble, Bernie Madoff(arrested in 2008), etc. - so one could say that upper-middle class people were committing more crimes in general.<br /><br />Furthermore, as you point out, the cultural renaissance was focused more on indie rock, rather than hip-hop or other mainstream music.<br /><br />In this theory, crime did rise, but only for the rich and upper middle-class, and it wasn't enough to raise the national crime rate. This is why it would seem that at least some segments of culture were becoming more outgoing, yet statistics show no crime rise.<br /><br />, <br />Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-63453776875298934282017-03-11T17:25:56.161-05:002017-03-11T17:25:56.161-05:00"When patriotism is high, we're also most..."When patriotism is high, we're also most charitable toward other nations, provided we don't see them as a threat."<br /><br />Sounds good, but many assume patriotism is zero-sum, at someone's expense. Can we disprove that?<br /><br />"Young girls were definitely more flirtatious, but on the whole they must have been holding out for a clearer sign of rising violence to conclude that they needed to start earlier and mate with more partners. Overall it was still part of the attention whore trend of the past 20 years."<br /><br />Is there any data on marriages under age 18? Would that indicate much? And I really don't get your idea that women actually believe they need more mating partners in dangerous times. I would expect them to then need fewer partners in safe times, but places with lower crime, like Japan, do not have so little sex. Maybe much less sex than in the U.S., but we would need to compare the Japanese population to East Asians here, preferably Japanese-Americans. And I guess the ratio of crime:sex is not consistent throughout the curve. I can't imagine relatively asexual women beginning to mate, or vice versa. I think sexual behavior is partly genetic, and pretty static.<br /><br /><br />Does an attention whore avoid pregnancy more than other women? And does she do serial monogamy more, or conventional promiscuity, or, obviously, both? <br />Is attention whoring something sexual minorities notice too, or women notice in men?DBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-68558723260763557022017-03-11T17:08:35.506-05:002017-03-11T17:08:35.506-05:00"People are just more willing to go for it, a..."People are just more willing to go for it, at least in some ways, when their physical security seems less guaranteed into the future."<br /><br />This sentence just made me think those attempting shrewd investing will hopefully expect crime to go down, making their property value go up. They can't expect high demand for the house they plan on flipping if it's not a safe place for the flipee to live.<br />When crime rate changes do not help their investment, investors might then lose money, and get a foreclosure. I wonder if anyone could investigate this potential connecting of crime to real estate.DBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-21375127023464123242017-03-10T14:28:45.919-05:002017-03-10T14:28:45.919-05:00Not more thoughtful, but you are right on to label...Not more thoughtful, but you are right on to label the past 10 years a "decade of blandness". when people cocoon, they lose the ability to tolerate strong emotions. they prefer the media they consume to be more bland and not to arouse strong emotions, because it only makes them upset(because cocooning makes them more neurotic).<br /><br />to use the word "thoughtful", though, is incorrect. more like paranoid navel-gazing, not meaningful introspection. interestingly, meaningful introspection is more possible when crime is high and the public is more socially active. when people get more accurate feedback from others, and from the world in general, it makes it easier for them to gain insight through introspection. <br /><br />Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79700421661734688142017-03-10T10:49:48.799-05:002017-03-10T10:49:48.799-05:00Culture in general seems less upbeat and edgy than...Culture in general seems less upbeat and edgy than it used to be, and more somber, more sanitized and more wholesome, but also in many ways more thoughtful. https://medium.com/@m0nologuer/the-gigabore-a-decade-of-cultural-blandness-4fa66e94aab1#.f7tdiwnerclearancepostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-26488598227329840822012-01-16T14:24:03.971-05:002012-01-16T14:24:03.971-05:00Housing bubbles seem to be a more or less inevitab...Housing bubbles seem to be a more or less inevitable by-product of our economic system. I have no doubt there'll be another one, though given the depths of the current housing bust the cycle may be a bit longer than the 15+ years between the last two.<br /><br />As for terrorism scares, the government (especially in New York) seems to be getting steadily more paranoid.<br /><br />PeterPeterhttp://ironrailsironweights.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com