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10/14/2009
AN ASSAULT ON AMERICAN MINDS
I do not believe that all media are totally mindless, but there is evidence that from time to time the media refuses to use common sense, or subverts the meaning of what is the "freedom of speech".
May be the ignorance exhibited therein is not intentional, but the resulting damage is the same. If one throws a hand grenade, whether they intended harm or not is a moot point. From time to time I have argued the point that freedom of speech was never intended to promote the banal and the base and since not all minds are equally capable of discerning between the tasteful and the tasteless, between entertainment and the brain damage, there should be some limits placed on what is said to and exposed to ALL populations. I had used the example of certain college student being killed after copying a stunt from the MTV show "Jackass".
In my book of poetry, I have poem "Beauty Queen" in which it says
"forget all
your basic instincts
what makes you human
and what makes you distinct"
Apparently we are being convinced that that becoming less than human, that giving up what we learned over the millennia about the human behavior and what makes for a viable society is no longer valid, that we can function at sub human level and still exist.
What got me going this time was the celebration of that old dope head McKenzie Phillips who was trying to sell books about her sorry life and got to be on every talk show only because she was discussing her relationship with her father who was not there to refute the assertion being made. "We love dirty laundry!".
Is it so important that we all know about about her disgusting behavior? What redeeming value did it have? What was the message being promoted?
Now what kid in America, and may be the world over( I am assuming a kid from a middle class family with access to the internet and television) the age of eight is not familiar with the Simpsons. They love the Simpsons, have Simpson dolls and Simpson t-shirts, coffee mugs, and what not. Now to bring that icon sown to size the "Playboy" is doing a nude, spread, centerfold of the iconic mom, that is as base as you can get, is nothing sacred anymore, ccan we not leave our kids be kids?
What is the message here? What is the purpose? Put this all in context, when we are talking about the Cougars, and the spread of Marge Simpson or as I have discussed previously the guys all suffer from their own Oedipus complex.
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Posted by tombstone001 on 2009-10-15 01:05:18 | Rating: | Views: 43
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