I was just at a friend’s apartment and he was watching a movie – so I delivered what I had to, and then thought, it looks innocuous enough, and presto, suddenly the protagonists are undressed
By zevi770 · November 13, 2013
So the question that is absolutely beyond human comprehension is, if you asked a man or woman, just fifty years ago, going back for thousands of years, will you undress in front of literally the entire world? the natural shame would have prevented it!
So what has changed?
On what basis are literally millions of women, whose shame is much more ingrained than men; disrobing; often for fame, not fortune; and if it is for money, it’s not necessities that they lack?!
The answer is shockingly and sadly simple.
Peer pressure
In Greek Stadiums, young men would nakedly – in the delusion of the beauty of the human body – compete
As Einstein said, “two things are infinite, human stupidity and the universe and I have my doubts about the latter.”
In other words, our ability to delude ourselves as Einstein replied when asked how the holocaust could be perpetrated by civilized people – “sometimes people don’t think!” – our need for approval is so great that we repress our own inner moral voice.
Which leads to the final quote from Einstein today, “never go against your conscience, even if called on to, by the state!” – and let me add, by peers!