{"id":503,"date":"2013-03-02T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebcsv.com\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2015-05-21T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:50:08","slug":"cultural-deformity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/cultural-deformity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Deformity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-504\" src=\"http:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/oscars.jpg\" alt=\"oscars\" width=\"144\" height=\"100\" \/><\/em>As defined by Merriam-Webster<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Culture:<\/strong> The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also: the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deformity:<\/strong>\u00a0A moral or aesthetic flaw or defect. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I read a very interesting article <a title=\"Cultural Deformity\" href=\"http:\/\/theblacksphere.net\/2013\/02\/the-comedy-of-cultural-deformity\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Comedy of Cultural Deformity&#8221;<\/a> by Derrick Jeter, posted on <a title=\"The Black Sphere\" href=\"http:\/\/theblacksphere.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Sphere<\/a> this week that puts these two terms together to describe the state of our culture today and thought it worthy to pass along, see if you don&#8217;t agree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Cultural%20Deformity\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As defined by Merriam-Webster Culture: The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also: the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time. 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