Tr1v14l Pursu1ts: Virginia Beach, bastion of visual morality (but for all the wrong reasons)

Maxims, rules of thumb and other observations on human cognition and sociocultural affectations

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What is said to humans directly is received with skepticism and considered with dubiousness while that which is heard in passing, especially that which most conforms to their mentality or prejudices, is readily believed.
Humans have a certain cognitive latency between exposure to new information or experiences and the ability to think dispassionately and intellectually about it.
Humans have a certain cognitive spectrum starting with the moment of exposure to new information or experiences and ending with some point at which the thing is effectively "in the past" for them.
This cognitive spectrum is linked to the emotional process often referred to as shock, anger, denial and acceptance.
The more and faster information or experiences are presented to people and the closer the quarters and the lesser the distance between people, the more their early reactions in the passionate emotional stage are reflected back to them in the manner of responses to those reactions from others in light of those responses.
The more outrages which are suffered without sufficient time to allow emotional bleed-off, the farther the bar for subsequent reaction and outrage are pushed, and the more further events must progress before reaction and outrage.
It is possible for serious detriments to eventually sit below this threshold for long enough for their damaging effects to build and multiply until their entire society undergoes some reactive convulsion.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Virginia Beach, bastion of visual morality (but for all the wrong reasons)

Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com

Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.

I have several questions...

Should we be worried that they are more obsessed over young men's asses than the tacky tasteless nature of the fashions purveyed?

Will Virginia Beach forge ahead in the fight against the buttcrack and modify plumbers' license laws to require pants be kept up at all times?

Do you think the manager still thinks that job is worth $8.50 an hour?