Sustaining sensibility: What is obscenity?
From my perspective, the local controversy regarding nudity is a minor matter compared to some of the issues we are facing regionally and nationally.As a metaphor, when emperors are wearing no clothes, it’s compelling to make sure that average bodies are covered. By concentrating on nudity, we can divert our attention from job loss, foreclosure, drug addiction, hunger, child abuse, climate change, energy issues, food shortages, overpopulation, etc. When things have gone so awry at the highest levels of financial and fiduciary responsibility, it’s not surprising that we want to cover every front and fanny and have no reminders of how the middle and lower classes have been fiscally denuded. No one wants to face feelings of powerlessness.If society is a pyramid, then a lack of compassion, creativity and sacrifice at the top can erode access to credit and job opportunities at the base. In order to support a healthy, stable economy, we must have jobs on the ground now! It is wrong to kill p
