{"id":6151,"date":"2011-05-08T08:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2011-05-08T08:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T15:11:39","slug":"on-the-degradation-of-public-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=6151","title":{"rendered":"On the Degradation of Public Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say it started with rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll.  Others blame Dr. Spock.  Me, I think it goes back to Sam Peckinpah&#8217;s 1972 movie <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068638\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Getaway<\/a><\/em>, one of the first mass market films to glorify and glamorize criminal behavior.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6152\" style=\"width: 431px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-7-11_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6152\" title=\"click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-7-11_1-431x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-7-11_1-431x450.jpg 431w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-7-11_1-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-7-11_1.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meet the Hate Fuckers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Saturday morning we rode our bicycles down to Tucson&#8217;s 4th Avenue.\u00a0 It was our weekly ride and coffee-shop run, and I particularly wanted to go because a local hot rod club was putting on a show that day.\u00a0 What could be more fun than a good bike ride with friends, a cup of coffee at an outdoor cafe, and hot rods to gawk at?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At some point I noticed the two gentlemen walking ahead of us.\u00a0 I took a not-very-good photo with my cell phone.\u00a0 You may just be able to make out the logos on the backs of the vests: the guys are members of something called the &#8220;Hate Fuckers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was not a late night rock concert with an adult audience.\u00a0 It was a Saturday morning family event (and indeed you can see a family in the photo).\u00a0 Hate Fuckers?\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay to walk down a public street wearing clothing decorated with the word fuckers in big block letters?\u00a0 In the morning?\u00a0 With families all around?<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have been shocked, but I was.\u00a0 I still am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say it started with rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll. Others blame Dr. Spock. Me, I think it goes back to Sam Peckinpah&#8217;s 1972 movie The Getaway, one of the first mass market films to glorify and glamorize criminal behavior. Saturday morning we rode our bicycles down to Tucson&#8217;s 4th Avenue.\u00a0 It was our weekly ride and coffee-shop run, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6155,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/6155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}