#usculture — Public Fediverse posts

When you read stuff like this, it’s good to keep in mind that all of this is a choice.

Why Being Middle-Aged Sucks So Much for Americans (and No One Else)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-being-middle-aged-sucks-so-much-for-americans-and-no-one-else/

#aging #americandream #unitedstates #individualism #uspolitics #usculture

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https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/behind-the-hood/

I've been thinking about the hoodie recently.

>>... no other garment is so charged, or so fraught, in this country as the hoodie. <<

My own dislike for the garment makes me uncomfortable. How much of my distaste springs from ugly prejudices about race, class, and age buried within me?

Then I start to wonder how much of my agonized reflection is not only an ultimately futile attempt to suppress my own aesthetic responses but also an unproductive focus on the individual psyche rather than on the structures of society.

Working with lots of young men in hoodies prompted these thoughts, as did...

#USCulture #Hoodie #Fashion #HistoryOfDress #Race #Class #Age

Is The Man in the Pink Polo Shirt as unhappy as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was in the mid fifties?

#USCulture #WhiteCollar #MiddleClassMen