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A confessional culture meets up with the Internet, and exhibitionism becomes an extreme sport.
These are not trivial issues, but in our confessional culture they are familiar.
The nation has been slower than Britain to embrace the confessional culture that dominates on the other side of the Atlantic.
For in our confessional culture, with its cult of therapeutic openness, shyness seems to be increasingly looked on with confusion and suspicion.
But the confessional culture that has flourished in the past several years seems to have dispensed with that kind of discretion; in contemporary politics, the display of physical frailty is often employed as a way to gain sympathy.
Persecuted by media who can't come to terms with Lisa's inability to engage with the confessional culture, obsessed by the need to find the child, Jaz and Lisa's lives are utterly altered.
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Our culture is confessional, and politics is not exempt.
Note Santella's line: "It's strange that so many lay Catholics should have abandoned the confessional even while secular culture is increasingly awash in confession...of every sort".
Dylan's bedroom soliloquies and I-just-bit-a-lemon frowns look like the usual diaristic fumblings of self-navigation that have snowballed lately into a culture of confessional YouTube clips--canonical descendants of the LonelyGirl15 character who, if she appeared back in the '80s, might just have written bad poetry and shelved it in her closet.
It's quite hard today to imagine a culture where anything "confessional" was in any way new.
Communication through spoken-word poetry emerged from hip-hop, beat poetry and African culture, and weaves confessional performance art and rap.
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