FIRST!

I couldn't think of a original name for a blog, as everything has already been taken, so I hit the 'random article' button on Wikipedia hoping to find inspiration.

Shame society

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A shame society is one in which the primary device for gaining control over children and maintaining control over adults is the inculcation of shame and the complementary threat of ostracism. A shame society is to be distinguished from a guilt society in which control is maintained by creating and continually reinforcing the feeling of guilt (and the expectation of punishment now or in the hereafter) for certain condemned behaviors. Recently this distinction has been criticized as nothing more than a semantic existentialism.^{[citation needed]}

I'm being laid off by the daily newspaper I've happily worked for for the last year and with this job market it's unlikely that I'll see another decent writing job in months, so... hey. Blog. It'll keep me busy.