[giotto]

True, the author weakened his argument by focusing on fart humor in the beginning. But his larger point in irrefutable: Hollywood is and has been poisoning the minds of children, as well as adults, for decades. Movies and TV have made the deviant aspects of our culture seem normal. At best, they have dumbed down the entire population and wasted our time. At worst, they have corrupted our consciousness irrevocably. Movies like Silence of the Lambs are examples of what I call "Deeply Evil Movies"--movies that use horrifying scenes of violence for no purpose other than to traumatize the viewer. There really should be a special rating class for this kind of #@%&.

[arthurus]

I don't know much about all this firsthand. I have seen 2 movies in the last 4 years and a TV last disgraced my house in 1986.