Posted on 05/09/2024 10:11:33 PM PDT by Kevin in California
Was perusing the TV shows and came across Rifleman episodes. I'm just amazed on how far this country has fallen. Back in the Rifleman era, there was law and order, no DEI, no LBGTQQAD (whatever the hell it is), men were men...women were woman, no AOC's, no Antifa, no this, no that....just a great era to be part of.
I pray for this country and the men and women who fought for it.
Where the men are women the women are men and the livestock are nervous.
It was a male built, run, and monitored society and culture, it was fathered, that means sanity and commonsense were the dominant forces.
my brother and i practically ‘worshipped’ Lucas McCain as boys. never missed that show. looking back as an adult: great show, strong morals, lessons, and consequences for bad decisions. but there were real people portrayed, some totally evil, and moral dilemmas played out to just ends.
i think remember one show in particular where Lucas’ ne’er do well, dead beat Dad, shows up on the lam. He’s Mark’s grandfather, whom Lucas rightly blames for his wife’s death. Mark finds it in his heart to forgive, but Lucas just can’t. hope i got that right from memory, but you get the idea. they just don’t do/write television like that anymore.
My better half loves watching classic western movies and television. The grandaughters always say. Babo watching cowboys again!
Without being specific, a lot of ‘Great Men’ from the past 100 years flunked out when it came to parenting, which has led to the TOTAL MESS that Western Civilization now finds itself, with a huge chunk of their kids DEMANDING that their countries be filled with Third World type people.
There was one in which Hop Sing, the Cartwright's Chinese cook, wanted to marry and white woman, and learned that interracial marriages were forbidden.
Another episode in which Hoss befriends a retarded man, who suffers bigotry and suspicion because of his mental condition.
There were some others. They slipped liberal messages into Bonanza and other shows from the 1960s. The Twilight Zone (which went on the air in 1959) had many explicitly liberal messages.
They just don't seem so bad in retrospect, because they were more Martin Luther King type liberal messages, instead of the ultra-left messages of today.
Yeah, been watching “Wagon Train” reruns lately...another feel good Western.
Hubby must watch two hours of Rifleman every day. I’ll watch a few episodes, too.
It’s fun to see later big stars when they were very young. The moral of the stories is so good, and is something we lost long ago. Plus... CC flipping around that rifle is cool.
“Bonanza reruns in the 1970s. In retrospect, I recall some woke episodes.”
I’ve seen a couple of woke Rifleman episodes, too, one having to do with bigotry re Chinese. Basically, “we’re all the same”. Actually, 50 years ago I pretty much believed that, but I was wr.. wr. wr.. wrong.
Take a discerning look at the “Andy Griffith Show” sometime.
Situational ethics, pragmatism, and the progressive commie messages abound……
Changes have certainly been made. People are more free to move
about. They did and brought their customs with them. Just look
at the USA history from what we know. Hell in some time in the
future people will be living in outer space, taking a shot or pill for
their daily food needs, instant communications across the world,
more deadly diseases, who knows what education will be like, etc.
Just my ramblings and yours may/will be different, I wish I could
see some of it a 100 yrs out but not gonna happen.
“”””Yeah, been watching “Wagon Train” reruns lately...another feel good Western.”””””
Wagon Train is moving, it was not afraid of God and showing the noble mission of our pioneers.
Cowboy bump!
Like the town where the sun didn't come up, because everyone was so full of "hate" that they vomited it up. (As explained by the usual kindly and wise black preacher.)
Or "The Monster Are Due on Maple Street and The Obsolete Man.
Or the evil rich man who built a fake bomb shelter to trick people who'd hurt him into begging to be let in.
When I was a kid, I remember watching:
Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, I Dream of Genie, F-Troop, Medical Center, Marcus Welby M.D., S.W.A.T., The Rookies, Streets of San Francisco ... to name a few.
I was quite the TV addict.
The anthology format requires tropes and cliches in the characters. But to give an example of an espisode that aged well,”Two” with just Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery would feel like an anti-nuke war episode in the early ‘60s, now it looks like a traditional romance where a real man finds common cause with a real woman scared and forced by war to be an enemy. That episode would not be done today.
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