Interesting thoughts on when bad posture first set in. I associate it with Rock n roll, mid 70s, thereabouts. Being in school at the time, it was the cool thing to go around hunched-up, like your guitar hero. That was then compounded by the spread of left-wing politics and the sexual revolution: the older generation were stiff and up-tight and right-wing. The youth were laid-back and slack. So a lot of it was down to generational rebellion which then went on and on through the gens. Maybe Gen Z is the first that's showing signs of reaction. If they could only get off their phones!
Yes, I think you're right. It's unfortunate how upright posture vaguely came to be associated back then with being square, while slouching was somehow cool.
Interesting thoughts on when bad posture first set in. I associate it with Rock n roll, mid 70s, thereabouts. Being in school at the time, it was the cool thing to go around hunched-up, like your guitar hero. That was then compounded by the spread of left-wing politics and the sexual revolution: the older generation were stiff and up-tight and right-wing. The youth were laid-back and slack. So a lot of it was down to generational rebellion which then went on and on through the gens. Maybe Gen Z is the first that's showing signs of reaction. If they could only get off their phones!
Yes, I think you're right. It's unfortunate how upright posture vaguely came to be associated back then with being square, while slouching was somehow cool.