Prissy is a value that concerns me. In a person, I see it as everything about inauthentic and the way that "oh so inadvertently" puts others at risk, or at the very least distracts from the loops of exploring we need, each of us to go through personally, to keep on learning human respect and trying to act accordingly except where we have determined a deliberate reason not to.

So I have got to assume that a culture that enshrines prissiness into its biggest media is heading for shrinks. And if that is the case then one needs to make sure that culture doesnt engulf others, and offer people quicksanded by that culture diverse helping hands to jump out of the prissy sink into something that resonates whatever humanity's greater values are. (My daughter's school says they are love**, faith and hope though I find trust one that flows quite well)

Since bearing a breast at superbowl halftime, America's mass media has chorused such prissy outcomes as:
no more live shows with entertainers, they will be 5-minute video intercepted - expect the most boring ever Oscars' speeches this year

no breasts are to be shown on ER operating tables, causing a hasty cutting job in tonight's epsiode whose heroine was an elderly lady with breast cancer

I trust this is sufficient evidence of extreme prissyness. The next question is why do people's representatives say the people want this. I think I can see the control games that are going on here but perhaps those who want to debate that will do so by email wcbn007@easynet.co.uk - who knows maybe I can feed some of our insights into the next drink my father has with Rupert. Is this really what media moguls want their life's work bequest to be?

PS of course love (if you could take sex out of its mediating) is the greatest interpersonal value multiplier. I am endebted to this learning organisation thread , even though it leads us into another dangerous conversation: what happens if a nation's defining mass media heroises prissyness and aggression in equal measure?

bookmark http://www.learning-org.com/99.10/0095.html
Maturana defines:

Love is the domain of relational behaviors through which another (a
person, being, or thing) arises as a legitimate other in coexistence
with oneself.

and...

Aggression is the domain of relational behaviors in which another is
negated as a legitimate other in coexistence with oneself.

(I believe "love" and "aggression" are mutually exclusive sets of behaviors.)
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