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Notes in a Bottle:
Altered Social & Interpersonal Expectations

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Is the Problem That We Compete?

 

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Post-Glasnost Tips for Former East Bloc Citizens:  Women's Labor and Child Rearing

 

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Our mores are becoming more like those of aristocratic courtiers.

 

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Mallophobia

 

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Malls are places where big people get effectively slammed around by little people.

 

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Normally the threat of physical consequences tends to improve certain kinds of manners.

 

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Malls put people in a  childlike, heedless state, by beckoning them to bliss out on the goods.

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) Crime and Prestige
A Cautionary Tale

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) The inability of culture to keep up with change is behind many contemporary problems.

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) Media culture brings great uniformity to behavior, but without any socially-enabling coherence.

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) S*x is Still the Subject We Can't Discuss

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) Perceptions of contradictory gender interests have evolved into a major "fault line" in American politics.

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) According to the prevailing iconography, it's column right for men, column left for women.

 

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butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes) We've accepted a view that today's corporate social order embodies male interests and values--when it's often profoundly testosterone-hostile. butnsqar.gif (1086 bytes)

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