Monday, October 01, 2018
Bring Back Shame
Eileen F. Toplansky recently wrote about it in her post at AmericanThinker.com:
"Consider how America has lost an awareness of the value of shame. As defined, shame is a 'painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.' James B. Twitchell in his 1997 book For Shame: The Loss of Common Decency in American Culture asserts that 'we are living in shameless times,' as compared to when he was growing up in the 1950s, when 'public drunkenness, filing for bankruptcy ... drug addiction, hitting a woman, looting stores, using vulgar language in public, being on the public dole [and] getting a divorce' were considered shameful, and 'most of these reflected concerns about limiting individual behavior within a group.'"
