Can't agree with him about the 'movies not providing an influence', though. This form of mass-media drives much of our culture, good and bad. You would have to be deliberately blind not to see it.
>Can’t agree with him about the ‘movies not providing an influence’, though. This form of mass-media drives much of our culture, good and bad. You would have to be deliberately blind not to see it.
I grew up with an overdose of on-screen violence via Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, and a slew of Western movie shootouts. I don’t have the slightest inclination to go kill random people in real life.
“...This form of mass-media drives much of our culture, good and bad. You would have to be deliberately blind not to see it. ...”
It may have an influence if/when there’s no parental influence to teach kids right versus wrong.
I grew up watching The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello Bugs Bunny, Combat, The Rat Patrol, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, etc., and never once had the inclination to do the things which were portrayed there. My folks - both Mom and Dad - made sure that I knew right from wrong. Smacking either of my siblings with a sledgehammer ala Moe and Curly was just not ever an option (although, I have to admit, there were times when....well, never mind).
The problem then, it would seem to me, is not one of what is shown onscreen - but how it is assimilated by people who lack a moral baseline from their secularized parents.
A couple generations of people have grown up with the intentionally de-Christianized moral relativist education taught to them by liberal idiots, and now we have a substantial portion of the population that can’t distinguish basic right from wrong.
Case in point: 60 years ago, who would have ever thought it was OK, much less a “right” - to murder an unborn infant - a CHILD?? Yet we got Roe v Wade in the 1970s. And somehow, magically, after a few decades, it’s now accepted practice.
Society’s been nothing but sh*t downhill ever since then.
So yeah, there’s the pop culture influence that pushes ALL of the liberal insanity through the television.
When there’s a vacuum where a soul should be, be sure there will be something to fill that vacuum. And never be surprised at what that new occupant can and will do...it usually produces pretty horrific results.