Bob mentioned: "This discussion is off topic of being naked, except that big corporations which make huge profits producing and marketing clothing are always against allowing people to be naked."
As Eyesup is eluding to in concern of ownership.
I'd like to elaborate on this topic of incorporation, add and conjecture our collective futures as these may influence the spread of naturism. Yup, absolutely nothing to do with Chebo Falls.
There is a corporate culture stemming from the simply focused structural mandate to create profit. This focus tends to make aspects of humanity a periphery issue to the main purpose of profit. Uniformity, treating human beings as merely parts in the machine, and dismissing them as needed, all contribute to the clothing issues faced within the broader culture.
I remember those corporate uniforms of the sixties, black, grey, or blue suits with a small hat and a brief case. Associated with this, was the rest of a limited and enforced social behavior. Little boxes filled with ticky-tacky were examples of uniformity and lack of tolerance that existed socially. It is a dark side of unbridled capitalism influencing and coupled with existing culture. Those were bad days for the nudists. Visiting Eden in California, we noticed the old fears that they experienced and were ingrained into the older nudist populations. They were not just boxed in by the intolerant world, but they were fortified, or hiding behind walls and fearful.
In the late sixties, these most obvious symptoms of excess were questioned and rejected. More free ranging naturism, and associated attitudes of acceptance and tolerance were produced in sociological and cultural context in much of the world, including body freedom activities.
I see the increasing corporate control of just a few entities as very threatening. These have been creating culture, consumerism and increasing the old corporate profit driven abuses to humanity. Currently, we are in sex sells and naked is sex, rather than naked is humanity. The corporate structure in effect isn't controlled by the masses of investors, but it has been consistently controlled by a few with larger portions of stock at the top. These few, now popularly referred to as "the 1%" or "the .1%" sit on the controlling boards of numerous corporate entities and consequently control all large corporations for profit. This has been going on since before I was born, when Rockefellers were so dominate and then the Gilded Age and robber barons. It is not just numbers. Who would not want the connections and alliance with someone like a Rockefeller on their controlling board of directors? How far will this go?
The mining towns, sung about by "Tennessee Ernie Ford, were where everything is essentially owned, everything is controlled by the company. There is conformity and work and certainly no freedom to rattle the cart by being naked. This extreme would be what I would suppose would be the tendency of our ever greater controlling corporate institutions. In numerous ways, life in America is tending to head towards that direction of a slavery, or contract into an unnaturally structured world. Nudity must not effect profit. Values and behavior can be and will be controlled by the few with the purse strings, when those with the purse strings can.
Two examples are corporate control and its fusion with the government that has affected the mental health field to a negative. Profit is also driving the effectiveness and access of medical care. What we listen to, and what news we are given to manipulate our thinking have been increasingly controlled by a few. I see these trends as a potential threat to nude lifestyles. In history, those that control, have gotten around to controlling morality and ethics for profit and for ego. Our revolutions have been results from this.
Fortunately, the clothing profit motive is constantly exposing more and more skin and shape in fashion. More often it isn't the cost of the fabric that drives price, but a better profit can be made using less cloth. This year women are wearing their revealing tights on the outside and swimming gear has been doing this trend for years. It used to be that profit could be produced so that skirt length fashion could go back and forth, year to year, but now it is a completely new ball game. After a while, things will get so ridiculous that clothing may be seen as the joke that it is. What you wear shows all body shape, what difference does it make from beach to street, and then...well...topfree, etc. You all know about that.
I might add that comfort and convenience is also a contributing factor to the wide spread acceptance of these tight clothes. They are very stretchy and don't require laying down and a hernia to pull them on. Two of the pros of going about naked.
The thing is that fashion is profitable and out of control of the few. It has this tendency and you can see how there is a potential for it to swing completely out of control. It could kill its own influence by its own greed. There is a history of swings that have resulted in anti-fashion. One latest, is those fashions to make clothing look old and worn. The opposite of wealth and walking billboards with labels. Perhaps reflective of, or caused by, frustration from control. Am I effectively making the correlation of two tendencies of out of control corporate structuring? One wants more control, getting stronger and one weakens the unbridled control. Both drive by greed.
If media consolidation and the demise of internet neutrality, which are all results of unbridled corporate structures and oligarchy, don't turn us all into fearful robots, unfree, there is hope that other corporate shortcomings will produce wide spread nudism. Nudism tends to produce naturism. It just generally follows that naked is more in touch with grass and trees and then wilds become more conscious.
Bare breasts were associated with glamor in Monaco in the sixties and look what has happened in Europe and is still is evolving. Nudity can be a release valve to over control. Nudity can be the influence, with which we gauge our sense of freedom. Nudity can be the reminder that life is not only about profit and gaining wealth, but life is of this earth, egalitarian, and in any moment to merely be experienced. We understand this about nudity in the current context, but what if it were to become a cultural ideology and practice on a grander scale? If clothing fashion ran amuck and killed itself? I head to the hills and get naked and forget all about making a buck. What if naked was a social norm to provide frequent reminders of the extent of control? Would we have a healthier more civil, less greedy planet?
Gotta digress and go find a buck.
Jbee
