Conspiracy theories were once a shocking thing to share, but with a heavy hand on digital censorship, it's now commonplace to presume that the whole story isn't public for many things
I would like to turn the question around. Is it normal not to be shocked at anything? Maybe it is living in nudist communities for decades or working in an Emergency Room, or even being a birder/RVer and being on the road more than most and saying "I have seen everything." Maybe because I am constantly looking for birds in that I see things most don't pay attention to? I remember driving down US 81 West of Alpine Texas in my RV where the road follows the railroad. It is long straight and flat there. I see a car parked in the other lane. As I get closer I see a naked woman taking a selfie while she is laying "spread eagle" in middle of tracks. I make a comment to my wife in co-pilot seat, she doesn't even look up and just notes "was she using a selfie stick or a tripod?" Seen naked people in cars, drug drops/deal, stumbled upon naked wiccan ceremonies basically naked people doing almost everything, people having sex, dead bodies, bodies that looked dead that weren't, cars, car parts, even beer barrels bouncing towards us on the highway, UFOs, tornadoes, etc. In the ER, you have to get out in the weeds to tell me a story that even remotely shocks me, and language? I have had the gamut said to me. The list is long. Probably the most shocking thing was a herd of elephants that refused to let us pass, but it was in South Africa and how "shocking" should that have been? I have been shot at. I wasn't shocked but decided a quick retreat was in the cards, that was just self preservation. Like I said, nothing shocks us, are we abnormal?
I believe in this day and time very little is considered shocking. As a society, we have become numb to many things we once thought were sacred or held to a higher standard. The argument could be made that when standards or expectations are lowered, we allow ourselves to be less critical of a situation or outcome. However, the underlying issue relates to one's perception based on experience, knowledge, and open-mindedness. We all are a reflection of our willingness to accept others as it pertains to Naturism. Being Shocked... is relative to the inability to adapt or consider others and what they may consider normal.
Dans 100 ans, le simple vêtement, même résumé par un slip ou un string sera choquant, puisque les gens vivront intégralement nus, de la naissance à la mort. J'écris un livre sur le sujet dans la catégorie "anticipation prophétique".
in the 80s it was shocking to see two men kiss in public. Now its not so much. With the current political climate in the states, it may again be shocking in 100 years.
I differentiate between "shocking" used as an adjective, which often conveys a heavy sense of judgement, and "shocked" as a verb, which conveys feeling upset or surprised.
I find that I am split-second shocked by many of the things happening in the world today, after which my shock turns to skepticism, anger or disappointment. I will always have things that shock me because I care about people and the world. If my colleague died in a car accident on the way home from work, I would be shocked.
I am pretty insulated from a pearls-clutching kind of being shocked where inconsequential social norms are broken. I am shocked and find it shocking when things like what happened to Gisele Pelicot come to light.
In 100 years from now, I think many of our idiosyncrasies will be the source to future generations. However, I think that what will shock them is how willfully blind we were to each other as human beings and to the Earth. How we refused to see things like garbage turning less-privileged nations into toxic wastelands and how we spent so much time working to build things that don't serve us as humanity.
There is a wide gray range in breaking norms, from interesting to startling or surprising all the way to shocking. A shirtless man in a park on a warm day when no one else is baring skin is, in effect, breaking the norm, but it is little more than a side note. That same man entering a synagogue shirtless may shock someone.
What is normal or not normal is a learned or condtioned response. Part of the conditioning is what we are taught a nd part of the conditioning is what we experience in our everday lives. The explosion of information, largely as a result of the internet, means less is shocking due to being exposed to the diversity of human experience. Only the most isolated or sheltered people will be shocked by what most people accept as normal. Those are the people we nudists need to watch.
We had been married a couple years when my wife proposed we have sex on our hotel patio in Honolulu, I was shocked!!! But we both came and didn't get arrested. Open curtains and patios became a routine.
I don't think many people would run to the police if they saw someone naked or having sex even if they were shocked. A hotel balcony is probably more acceptable than say in a park.
Conspiracy theories were once a shocking thing to share, but with a heavy hand on digital censorship, it's now commonplace to presume that the whole story isn't public for many things
I would like to turn the question around. Is it normal not to be shocked at anything? Maybe it is living in nudist communities for decades or working in an Emergency Room, or even being a birder/RVer and being on the road more than most and saying "I have seen everything." Maybe because I am constantly looking for birds in that I see things most don't pay attention to? I remember driving down US 81 West of Alpine Texas in my RV where the road follows the railroad. It is long straight and flat there. I see a car parked in the other lane. As I get closer I see a naked woman taking a selfie while she is laying "spread eagle" in middle of tracks. I make a comment to my wife in co-pilot seat, she doesn't even look up and just notes "was she using a selfie stick or a tripod?" Seen naked people in cars, drug drops/deal, stumbled upon naked wiccan ceremonies basically naked people doing almost everything, people having sex, dead bodies, bodies that looked dead that weren't, cars, car parts, even beer barrels bouncing towards us on the highway, UFOs, tornadoes, etc. In the ER, you have to get out in the weeds to tell me a story that even remotely shocks me, and language? I have had the gamut said to me. The list is long. Probably the most shocking thing was a herd of elephants that refused to let us pass, but it was in South Africa and how "shocking" should that have been? I have been shot at. I wasn't shocked but decided a quick retreat was in the cards, that was just self preservation. Like I said, nothing shocks us, are we abnormal?
I believe in this day and time very little is considered shocking. As a society, we have become numb to many things we once thought were sacred or held to a higher standard. The argument could be made that when standards or expectations are lowered, we allow ourselves to be less critical of a situation or outcome. However, the underlying issue relates to one's perception based on experience, knowledge, and open-mindedness. We all are a reflection of our willingness to accept others as it pertains to Naturism. Being Shocked... is relative to the inability to adapt or consider others and what they may consider normal.
Dans 100 ans, le simple vêtement, même résumé par un slip ou un string sera choquant, puisque les gens vivront intégralement nus, de la naissance à la mort. J'écris un livre sur le sujet dans la catégorie "anticipation prophétique".
in the 80s it was shocking to see two men kiss in public. Now its not so much. With the current political climate in the states, it may again be shocking in 100 years.
Ditto a little further back two people of different "races".
I differentiate between "shocking" used as an adjective, which often conveys a heavy sense of judgement, and "shocked" as a verb, which conveys feeling upset or surprised.
I find that I am split-second shocked by many of the things happening in the world today, after which my shock turns to skepticism, anger or disappointment. I will always have things that shock me because I care about people and the world. If my colleague died in a car accident on the way home from work, I would be shocked.
I am pretty insulated from a pearls-clutching kind of being shocked where inconsequential social norms are broken. I am shocked and find it shocking when things like what happened to Gisele Pelicot come to light.
In 100 years from now, I think many of our idiosyncrasies will be the source to future generations. However, I think that what will shock them is how willfully blind we were to each other as human beings and to the Earth. How we refused to see things like garbage turning less-privileged nations into toxic wastelands and how we spent so much time working to build things that don't serve us as humanity.
There is a wide gray range in breaking norms, from interesting to startling or surprising all the way to shocking. A shirtless man in a park on a warm day when no one else is baring skin is, in effect, breaking the norm, but it is little more than a side note. That same man entering a synagogue shirtless may shock someone.
What is normal or not normal is a learned or condtioned response. Part of the conditioning is what we are taught a nd part of the conditioning is what we experience in our everday lives. The explosion of information, largely as a result of the internet, means less is shocking due to being exposed to the diversity of human experience. Only the most isolated or sheltered people will be shocked by what most people accept as normal. Those are the people we nudists need to watch.
We had been married a couple years when my wife proposed we have sex on our hotel patio in Honolulu, I was shocked!!! But we both came and didn't get arrested. Open curtains and patios became a routine.
I don't think many people would run to the police if they saw someone naked or having sex even if they were shocked. A hotel balcony is probably more acceptable than say in a park.
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