Posted by Ritmo on March 07, 2001 at 14:47:10:
In Reply to: Cool response. posted by RickFeliz on March 06, 2001 at 22:58:17:
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I don't know though if it makes much sense to talk about a culture bein' "psychologically abnormal." Cultures don't got psychologies. They just got rules and roles and norms and all a that. And I'm no advocate of the 'human universals' position--unless ya just mean that all people eat, shit and die. But even then, they eat, shit and die in so many different ways, I wouldn't be able ta decide which a those ways was the right or best one. I know I like Mexican food much more than French. And would prefer dyin' w/some honor, hurlin' myself off a mountain once I'm too old to do any of tha good stuff, rather than hooked up to some machine in a hospital. But them's just my preferences. Others prefer other thangs. It's all good. BTW it ain't "my definition of normal"--I think if ya look around, you'll see that that monogamy-requirement is pretty consistent across the age spectrum in this society--at least once a guy ain't a 16 year old takin' girls to the movies for popcorn and a soda anymore. Ya right of course that cultures only have so much power--you don't have ta accept its moral condemnation of you when it labels you 'deviant' (which is what all of us objectively is, if we're fuckin' putas in TJ--which I definitely AM! and will be doin' this weekend, matter o fact!). But ya can't redefine the whole spectrum all by ya lonesome, turn the culturally-determined deviant into the culturally-determined normal, just because ya don't wanna be deviant! The culture makes those decisions, bro, not one individual. Me, I'm cool wit' deviance--to me, at least, it's a lot more fun than the other choice--plus the right kind a chicks like bad boys...
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