When future anthropologists study America in the 21st century and its rapid decline, they will no doubt better understand its code of values (or lack thereof) by examining the symbols and ideas that captured the spirit of the time – the things that we held dear.
In every generation, there are icons that sum up its core values – not official ones, but symbols that really mean something to people: Rosie the Riveter, the American flag, Elvis Presley, the motorcycle jacket, the defeatist “peace sign” and now the tyrannical “Coexist” bumper sticker. There are symbols that sum up the zeitgeist of a time, a generation.
The popular emoticon found on phones today, of a happily smiling pile of excrement, is just that. It best exemplifies the low state of the world, of the culture, and of America itself in the age of the primitive. It signifies America’s rapid decay in the wake of the left’s decades-long war on Americanism, freedom and individual rights. The absence of morality – and by morality, I […]
Mr. Schwartz, on many days, your humanity helps me to bear some of this execrable news. Today I say to you or your copy editor, please do not confuse tne beloved A.A. Milne character of Winnie the Pooh with the poo of excrement. Thanks.
Check out the New York Magazine article on emoticons and origin. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html
The meaning and origins of “pooh” are a little different than the conservative blogger presents.
Tunnel vision and a decided lack of a sense of humor once again demonstrated.
VRauluk
That was breathtakingly bizarre and disturbing. Three devotional quotes from Ayn Rand no less. Sometimes I think “1984” is being read as a reference manual.
Well, there’s “Hankey, the Christmas Poo” on South Park. but that’s the only one I’ve heard of.