This is like my first blog ever!

This is like my first blog ever! I always stayed away from these things because I sincerely believe that so few people really have a talent for being an author, and I am not one of them. Not only am I not one of them, but I can't get into reading blogs because other people who shouldn't be authors can be less interesting than even the slowest and most disappointing day of tv. Not to exclude myself from the rest, I don't even journal because I fall asleep while trying to write my boringness, and hate to subject myself, much less the blogging world, to all those things that only matter to me for just a small time. If you've made it this far, how lucky you must feel to be following my blog that will cover things I'm definitely not an expert on!
I want to sit and muse a little more on my Tuesday's class rather than today's. I had a little more sleep before Tuesday, and I felt like I was all there and participating as much as I should. I was a little intrigued by the topic that Victorians were not so back-asswards as we previously thought. They were not quite as racist as we thought. They still didn't care so much for the poor, but not as in love with the aristocracy as I thought they might be. They also loved thrill seeking and adrenaline-filled entertainment. After mentioning that they were not so stuffy and buttoned up to the top button all the time, we could have stopped there, and I would have happily accepted the thesis. After that, we talked about how progressive they were with examples like eschewing religion and open acts of depravity. We acted like these were the good things that made them even more "progressive" than us in certain ways. The article made page after page of certain scandalous attitudes and vices seem like their redeeming qualities. Granted I see the problems with the puritanical, harsh, public-penalizing theocracy we thought they might be, but the exact opposite isn't any better without some decency and self control. The reason the author seemed to like that side more was because we currently err to the "progressive." Keep in mind progressive isn't bad, but I just don't like it when we can throw all decency and self-control out the window and pat ourselves on the back for advancing human civilization. Also, if they were so much like us (and tons of societies before them which we've found to be progressive), then it's almost like nothing has ever changed with almost any society. Parallels can be drawn from us to the Victorians to the Romans to the Greeks and to almost any other society. We reach a level of prosperity, and then we become addicted to entertainment and more open with indulgences. It's been the same for thousands of years, and it doesn't seem like progress to me at all. Each society is running the same course. It's like the Victorian behavioral culture has suddenly become more predictable, and all that leaves to me is the music, artists, authors, the technological advances, and some funny clothes. More to come on that music. That part will be fun.