Last weekend I watched the Movie biopic on Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey starred as Chaplin). It’s supposedly based on Chaplin’s biography and the movie was very candid about the low moral character of the then denizens of Tinsel Town. The sex, including underage (Something Chaplin was supposedly known for!), the casting couch (both sexes!), booze & drugs and this was pre-WWI! Again why is anyone surprised? Actors/cateresses/entertainers have always shown to be of very low moral repute. Lower in social standing then thieves & pickpockets and that’s probably been the case since Aeschylus! There never was a golden age when they were all shiny & nice.
“Actors/cateresses/entertainers have always shown to be of very low moral repute. Lower in social standing then thieves & pickpockets and that’s probably been the case since Aeschylus!”
Worth repeating.
You are absolutely correct. Nothing has changed with the nature of man but society’s appetite for what passes as acceptable to expose the public too has certainly changed.
The degradation of ancient cultures is well documented.
Funny thing, on this website The Andy Griffith show is commonly held up as some great wholesome entertainment but if you just watch the story lines and the blurred morality as well as the pragmatism you can easily track the down grade to where we are today.