I beat you by a few years. Would start to watch a program———whatever and would turn it off because I had studied child development and psychology and I new what the producers were forcing into the subconscious of the naive.
I quit supporting cable. Just read Classics and occasionally popular stuff like “Shades of Grey” and “Hunger Games” and “Twilight” to see what they are peddling to the young.
It always disgusted me, when they portray evil as “good” and “beautiful” and portray the Good (people with principles) as bigots and evil. I had a solid Catholic childhood.
BTW, I really liked “Hunger Games” because it reminded me of “Brave New World”—and portrayed totalitarianism as evil, as it really is. There was a revolution against the State. : )
“Shades of Grey” was nothing but Marquis de Sade cr(p to normalize sodomy for the teenage girls. It is really porn—sexualization of our children, so they become Sadists and dysfunctional and so self-obsessed they make rotten parents so the State can have the minds of any children produced.
I read Hunger Games and liked it. I’m certainly not the intended demographic, but it was good. (I was reading it at the same time as a female friend of mine from another state)
I’ve been reading the Sherlock Holmes stories/novels. I really enjoy them. I also enjoyed Michael Chrichton and Robert Heinlein. I figure I’ll hit up Emerson next.