{"id":1681,"date":"2020-09-17T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:43:56","slug":"cuties-remind-us-why-society-needs-a-well-trained-sense-of-disgust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/cuties-remind-us-why-society-needs-a-well-trained-sense-of-disgust\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuties Reminds Us Why Society Needs a Well-Trained Sense of Disgust"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new piece up at the Federalist<\/a> today on that Cuties<\/em> abomination and the nature of disgust:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only natural to react to this with exactly the kind of outrage that Netflix is currently reaping. Sexually exploiting children is so revolting that anyone would recoil in disgust when presented with the kind of material in \u201cCuties.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Except not everyone is disgusted. The film made it through layers upon layers of writers, actors, producers, and marketers who thought it was a great idea\u2014even to the point of giving it awards.<\/p>\n

Of course, leftist degenerates are now rushing to defend the movie. Rather than being disgusted, their claim is that any failure to appreciate \u201cCuties\u201d is either prudish, unsophisticated, or \u2014 even worse \u2014\u00a0conservative<\/a><\/em>. It\u2019s a\u00a0French<\/a>\u00a0film, after all, so it must be artistic and sophisticated.<\/p>\n

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In more normal times, disgust serves as an incredibly useful feature of our natural emotional life that helps prevent our circumstances from devolving into all manner of wretchedness. Ultimately, however, it\u2019s a feature that we must train. As with our sense of\u00a0<\/span>shame<\/a>, our sense of disgust is something that needs to be cultivated as we mature. A well-formed person ought to be disgusted by disgusting things, but not disgusted by benign or positive things.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Look no farther than how so many now sneer at motherhood, fatherhood, and\u00a0children<\/a>\u00a0in the West to see that we can be trained to be disgusted when we should not.\u00a0 And as we can see from the \u201cCuties\u201d scenario, we can also be trained to become used to something that\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0be utterly revolting.<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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