Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018)

Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by weberc2 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @09:29AM (#21100178)

> Cultural changes and evolves, of course, but it's really hard to uproot a norm or more once it's settled in, even if it's one that causes you personal pain.

I don’t know if I believe this in general. Certainly we are happy to utterly change our lifestyles whenever a convenient new technology comes about. How much have smart phones or social media changed us culturally in the spans of a couple decades? If culture can change quickly over convenience, surely actual pain would drive it to change even faster. It seems that those “hard to change” cultural aspects are actually _useful_ in some way, and therefore they survive.

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Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by phkahler on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:10AM (#21100362)

Adopting new technology may seem like change, until you go up a level and see it as consumerism. Then you see that nothings changed.

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Re:Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings (2018) by weberc2 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @05:06PM (#21102868)

It’s not just adopting technology, but the package of lifestyle and cultural changes that go along with it. Perhaps it is “consumerism” in some broad sense—we adopt our culture quickly to our convenience and entertainment.

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