RA: Killer Culture

The article Killer Culture written by David Kupelian shows us the changes in life and culture from the 1950’s to now. Kupelian states that we are losing our morals and that we are a society comparable to the biblical “Sodom & Gomorrah”, following our passions and feelings to feel free. Our freedom allows us to express ourselves even if it doesn’t quite fit in with the ideas of what a man or woman is to the older generation. Men growing their hair long, wearing jewelry, or just being gay. Women doing “Man’s work”, being independent, being able to think for herself, and not just conforming to being a being of less importance than their husbands. Kupelian not only agrees with what was the normal life style of the 1950’s but also states that he believes that we should go back to that way of thinking making life distinctly black and white with no gray middle ground, by creating a subculture that, celebrates the distinct gender and color roles in society.

            Kupelian show us that we as a culture are destroying our morals by following our lowest primal pleasures. We want to be entertained, we want our own identity to distinguish ourselves from others, and we want the new. We want to be able to do whatever we want and to do it whenever we want. We as a culture would be perfectly happy to do nothing and follow the fleeting feeling of pleasure. I agree that we are following our primal instincts to find pleasure but I don’t think we are destroying our morals we are trying to abide by whatever schema is set in front of us, and we follow it to fit in. In Kupelian’s case his schema doesn’t match what his schema, which allows him to think that what we are doing is wrong or unmoral.

            We all have this kind of feeling that someone else’s schema is wrong and we feel that because the schemas of our lives are drastically different from someone else’s. Most of Americans have at one point or another thought to them that the Middle East is so oppressive and malicious for whatever they are doing, but they would say the same thing about us because of the different schemas. Kupelian may think that we are unmoral and that our culture should change back to the schemas of the 1950’s but I think that as a culture we are doing just fine.