There are readers of a mild and sanguine disposition who probably think the opinions on this blog are excessively cynical and critical of contemporary American culture. Oh very well, live in your rose-colored dream world, if you must. But let's put your happy-spin to an empirical test: consider this year's winner of the Westminster Dog Show, and tell me that our society hasn't already gone past the tipping point.
Photo by Seth Wenig.
Of all the weird looking dogs to choose from, did they have to pick one that looks like a rap star?
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While I rant, I may as well mention the stupidity of car shows. All a car show does is prove people are stupid enough to invest 14 times what the car originally cost and put in years of sweat to bring it back to the condition it was when it took an hour and fifteen minutes to originally travel down the assembly line.
I, for one, do not believe you are "excessively cynical and critical." Perhaps that's simply a coincidence.
The same thing is done in the breeding of horses. Breeding for looks (meeting a judges criteria) rather than a horse that could be used for anything other than a show piece.