Posted on 06/19/2015 4:17:00 AM PDT by foreverfree
As a student of and observer of worldviews,
I actually understand where he’s coming from.
That humankind is the source authority and as opinion evolves, that authority gets “better”,
so, our current times are “better” than the morality of the past,
because the humans of today have deemed it so.
On ‘24’:
Jack Bauer makes a call into the office to have a satellite repositioned. The guys in the office type in a bunch of commands. Doesn’t use a mouse at all.
Leopold! (Bugs Bunny reference)
Still fairly common on t.v.
But if the suspect is armed the cop always shoots them in the arm or wrist, causing them to drop their weapon while leaving them alive to stand trial.
Women show respect to their husbands.
Not always. I saw a Perry Mason episode the other day that had an African-American judge. He was hardly servile. Since he usually upheld Perry's objections, he was quite wise.
I've noted that scene as well; he shot right at bystanders and no one seemed particularly concerned. Guess that's just a normal Christmas Eve in Pottersville.
Men, and usually women, wore hats most of the time.
Men removed their hats when going inside, women never did.
Norph wind blow! Souph wind blow! Hurwacanes! Typhooons! SMOOOGGGGGG!
I love the Leopold one - so much fun with so little dialogue.
When stationed overseas in Japan I bought VHS tapes of looney tunes to keep me from missing home too much. I rolled with laughter as I discovered the second level of humor that I’d missed as a kid.
I showed my girls VHS and DVDs of the old looney tunes as they were growing up and we still enjoy them to this day.
I think I can still quote most of Tweety’s Dragnest dialogue...He was a bwack putty tat. White chest, red nose. Name: Sylvesta!
I won an art contest in 1965, sponsored by our local NBC affiliate, and won first prize - a console color TV. (That’s when the peacock logo came out). I was 11 years old and in the 6th grade. I was awarded it on a Saturday morning kid’s TV show. No one had a color TV in our neighborhood at that time. It was pretty cool.
so, our current times are “better” than the morality of the past,
because the humans of today have deemed it so.
FOUR! Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg!
As a society, we were better off with intact families (one man and one woman raising children) and moral standards. His postings remind me of debates with my liberal siblings about the evils of our nation. I counter that our nation isn’t perfect but it’s the best deal available.
Back in the era known as “the golden age of television” we didn’t have multiple generations on welfare. Kids didn’t have have “two mommies” or “two daddies.” Member’s of the armed services weren’t punished for worshiping in Jesus’ name. We weren’t forced to accommodate every whiny loser who is “offended” by something.
It was perfectly alright to talk about killing your nation’s enemies instead of “winning hearts and minds.”
Are we better off or worse? Is a tail a tail?
My guess: Public domain. No royalties need be paid.
I see no problem at all with this arrangement.
To add to the list, people were always eating meat---and lots of it.
I saw an old "Alfred Hitchcock" episode in which a woman was broiling a big, sizzling steak for dinner. I swear, that thing must have weighed as much as a small dog (and looked yummy).
And when the bad guy's gun is empty, he throws it- at SUPERMAN!
A woman is finally freed from a plane crash or a car wreck after two days and she emerges in freshly pressed clothing, all makeup and every hair in place and no wee-wee stains.
Aw, Vermont, come on.
I’m 51. A lot of this stuff I’ve only seen in movies and TV reruns. But it’s true that things WERE better in a lot of ways back then. Sometimes I feel nostalgic for a time before I was even born.
Racist, segregated, and all that...well, we’re paying for it today, aren’t we? And will likely never stop. Black mobs rampage in the streets, burning cities, and they try to level white guilt over what they see as the slightest infraction of PC race-sensitive culture. Sorry...I’m fresh out of sympathy.
I’ve got a whole logical argument laid out for the absolute logical necessity for an absolute standard, and therefore for an absolute standard Giver,
but it would take too long to lay out here.
The gist of it is, for anyone to say his or the current standard is “better” than that of the past,
you have to have some sort of external and absolute standard to measure both by to determine “better”.
By most metrics the bad old days were much better than our modern era.
We have better medicine and better entertainment, so yay for that.
They had an overall better quality of life, a more stable and intact family unit, and for more freedom and personal liberty. Kids could roam the streets, Crime of all types was far lower. Our society was intact and the man on the street tended to have a commonality with a stranger due to the shared beliefs that united us.
And with all the evils of segregation, the black family unit was more intact, male black lifespan was longer, a black person was less likely to be assaulted and murdered, and the black literacy rate was far higher than it is today.
You post says "I hate old white people".
I'll bet you're really fun at a party.
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