The limits of our decency
Maybe we shouldn’t be worry and allow people to forget about those limits? Videos of birth attendants, night Honeymoons, toilet, bathtub, fully clothed, naked, everything for sale. Why not?
The Internet remember, the internet never forgets, the Internet can hurt you. Periodically social campaigns are designed to make clear that we should be more careful, but usually these actions explain nothing to us, but they are a warning to others. Because we are wiser and the others — those are real morons! They throw everything on Facebook and think that it will have no consequences.
It’s a trend to say that we shouldn’t share everything with people online. Intimacy should remain to be private. Not everything should be just to “show off” and not everything should be for sale. And I agree with this, but only when I stand in front of my mirror. I have no need to rip off my life from intimacy, and I have no reason to tell about everything that’s happening in my life, but I don’t see a single reason to deprive others of such a possibility. All I see is an enormous stupidity of our generation which is trying to determine the boundaries of privacy to next generations.
We are acting the same as old generations, rebelling against changes made by those who believed that the adopted standards are inadequate or outdated. So it was in fashion, film, literature. Something that was considered to be shocking, today is the norm. Therefore, you can ask yourself a simple question:
”Whether it is worthwhile to oppose those who break new barriers?”
Maybe the thing here is that our opposition to the behavior of the new generation is just mindless and unnecessary result of a conservative approach to the new reality for which we can’t keep up with? Or rather: we can not keep up because we are tainted by the memory of the world in which exhibitionism associated only with people who have mental problems.
I am also surprised with pictures of farrowing which are keep popping up on my timetable. I also don’t like the fact that people in my age are turning their lives into a reality show. Also, I think that it’s stupid to sell our intimacy for a few likes or shares.
Who am I to tell others what it the limit of their privacy? Why is my belief about the existence of these limits is better than convincing others that there are no limits at all? Well, it is not! If we were to ascend to the heights of objectivity, there is no difference between throwing pictures of a fried eggs and newborn photos. Just like today — when we watch movies — there’s no difference between a kiss and nudity anymore. It is so common that it does not make any impression on us. It once did, and they were the same people as you are now the only difference is that they lived half a century earlier.
Nowadays, the movie is just a movie. Nothing shocks us anymore. Otherwise, the actor is not the same as a private person, and that’s why the actresses showing naked breasts in a movie doesn’t impress anybody. But would it be unfair to say that social media are just another form of acting? There, creation and creation here. If we accept crossing so many boundaries in art, then why do we still have a problem with acceptance of deviations from the norm in social media?
I already answered that question above (kind of). In the past, we were talking bad about a woman who do not cover the legs and a kiss on stage was considered as the pornography. Today, we are a little wiser and the guardians of morality screams that you have to be careful online because you can never be sure who’s watching. They could be not only your friends and relatives but also the rapists; pedophiles and fuck know who else. They could come and harm you or your family. The best solutions seem to be an argument “for the safety of our children”. When you say “child/kid/baby” you can achieve everything, ban everything and change every rule because our “kid has to be safe.” No one is going to argue on that. Extreme arguments are always the most difficult to break, but also the most stupid because they only represent extreme cases. And not the majority.
We don’t need to approve the fact that someone decided to share the live stream from wedding night, but you need to remember that it is not your fucking problem. It’s not your life that is getting ripped of intimacy. I don’t feel the need to laugh at girls who can get millions of likes under the picture of boobs or cellulite on Instagram. Their lives, their likes. Let everyone itself sets the boundaries of exhibitionism, because at the end of the day, the right will have those who proceed from the assumption that there are no boundaries. No boundaries at all! History teaches us that the right is on the side of those who crossed all of them. They didn’t think for a second what the moralizing and conservative majority of the society will say.