Neo Puritanism - or just lacking in social skills
GFR - of no known LJ sobriquet - flipped me this piece on "Neo Puritanism" fr'm't Observer Guardian like. Her take of them could be loosely summarised as laudable goals, but don't know that it doesn't take a lot to have a good time.
These do not sound like fun people. These are not the kind of people you'd want to pop down to the local to listen to a band with, and I don't imaging they'd do a good line in inappropriate jokes. In fact they probably don't do any thing they consider inappropriate. This is ok, but they don't want anyone else doing anything "inappropriate" either. The right have cloned Doctor Lvov and set him loose to wreck "moral" behaviour on society.
So are you a neo puritan? I found myself on that b/c cuspe, which I found really quite comforting.
These do not sound like fun people. These are not the kind of people you'd want to pop down to the local to listen to a band with, and I don't imaging they'd do a good line in inappropriate jokes. In fact they probably don't do any thing they consider inappropriate. This is ok, but they don't want anyone else doing anything "inappropriate" either. The right have cloned Doctor Lvov and set him loose to wreck "moral" behaviour on society.
So are you a neo puritan? I found myself on that b/c cuspe, which I found really quite comforting.