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Shrinkage Theorized

I have been told our culture cultivates moral decline That we live in a time which pushes propaganda of pleasure, sex, and self interest Our cultural standard of clothing has gone from the scandal of showing your ankle to the norm of displaying your navel From Victorian coverage head to toe with no skin to show To a life of spandex skirts and tube top shirts And I wonder if this new fabric to skin ratio reflects a morally decrepit environment With the shrinkage of clothes does also go the shrinkage of morality? With each hem raised are more eyes raised in lust to see it? With each pair of painted on pants are we painting an image of lustful conquests? With each new inch of skin are we inching our way to a shameless action of sin? Or perhaps are we finally finding our path beginning to straighten? Are we seeing written on the butt of yoga pants a message not of depravity, but of hope? Could it be that humanity is trying to redeem the invention of clothing at the fall? Do we feel no shame of nakedness because all lust has left us? Or have we lost that defense because lust now rules us? Do our outfits speak of our desire for attention, Or of our resolve for redemption? So again I wonder if this new fabric to skin ratio reflects a morally decrepit environment Or does it give hope to a radically redemptive movement If we keep tightening pants and lowering tops Will we be tightening our hold on a life in the pre-fall garden Or lowering our standards till we've fallen farther than before? Let us hope the former... because without clothes, we'll have no parachute to save us as we fall.

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Date: 1/1/2016 12:02:00 PM
HANNAH, pleasure to read :) HAVE YOURSELF A HAPPY January 1st. ...... SKAT
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