Posted on 11/11/2019 4:12:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Remember when the TV show Leave it to Beaver was the height of pop culture entertainment? About a nice family of four with good values? How far we’ve sunk since then. Now Americans watch all kinds of trashy shows and movies instead. Reality shows like Keeping up with the Kardashians portray a family with loose moral values who are famous only because one of the daughters made a sex tape and has an enormous behind. Yet millions of viewers watch this vapid family, who are not trained actors, regularly. It debuted in 2007 and is still going, as one of the longest-running reality TV shows ever.
Movies are now geared to 12-year-old boys. They’ve become so loud and full of violence that they are intolerable to a large portion of the population. There’s been an increase in action-figure movies since they cater well to that young demographic. Rotten Tomatoes compiled a list of the best movies of 2019 so far and it is full of violent action-figure movies and horror movies. There are also movies like Sauvage, which takes a “non-judgmental approach” covering the journey of a male prostitute. Hail Satan? portrays a positive look at the Satanist movement.
A friend of mine recently saw the new movie Midway. It’s a remake of a previous version, about the Battle of Midway which took place during WWII. He was disappointed because the new version did not stick to the original facts. Instead of chronicling the events, it followed a few primary characters and was merely loosely based on historical facts. He also noticed that the movie went over other aspects of Pearl Harbor, not just Midway, which was unlike the original version — as if the people watching the movie were too ignorant of the rest of that history and needed the background.
The TV show Game of Thrones is listed as the third most popular TV show of 2019 by Tell Tales. The only thing I know about it is that it is prominent for many nude and sex scenes. The fifteenth most popular show is The Handmaid’s Tale, which deliberately confuses a Judeo-Christian country with a theocratic regime. Women are treated as property and forced to give birth. Mocking our Judeo-Christian heritage, one of the things that made this country great, has become popular entertainment.
R&B gradually evolved into hip-hop and rap, which contain degrading lyrics about women and the glorification of violence. In 1989, the rap group 2 Live Crew released a song, Me So Horny, with disgusting lyrics about women. At the time, it created an uproar. Now? Rap groups regularly release songs with revolting lyrics and no one bats an eye. It’s become a part of the culture. Their latest fad is lyrics attacking the police. As if that’s something cool to do.
A decline in reading continues. People are replacing books with smartphones. They are choosing to engage in chatting online over reading. They’re also watching a lot of TV and videos. Fewer people are patronizing the arts. The younger generations would rather sit at home on their smartphones.
The TV show Game of Thrones is listed as the third most popular TV show of 2019 by Tell Tales. The only thing I know about it is that it is prominent for many nude and sex scenes. The fifteenth most popular show is The Handmaid’s Tale, which deliberately confuses a Judeo-Christian country with a theocratic regime. Women are treated as property and forced to give birth. Mocking our Judeo-Christian heritage, one of the things that made this country great, has become popular entertainment.
R&B gradually evolved into hip-hop and rap, which contain degrading lyrics about women and the glorification of violence. In 1989, the rap group 2 Live Crew released a song, Me So Horny, with disgusting lyrics about women. At the time, it created an uproar. Now? Rap groups regularly release songs with revolting lyrics and no one bats an eye. It’s become a part of the culture. Their latest fad is lyrics attacking the police. As if that’s something cool to do.
A decline in reading continues. People are replacing books with smartphones. They are choosing to engage in chatting online over reading. They’re also watching a lot of TV and videos. Fewer people are patronizing the arts. The younger generations would rather sit at home on their smartphones.
People drop swear words on social media like it’s no big deal. I find I cannot retweet a lot of so-called conservatives on Twitter because they use too much profanity. Twitter is also dumbing people down with its character limits on tweets. Gone are long words since they take up too many characters. Same with a lot of punctuation for the same reason. It’s hurting the English language. Why would anyone want to major in English What can be done? Push back against the changes and elect conservatives to office. Pressure companies like Twitter into changing their policies. They don’t need to limit tweets to 280 characters. Put pressure on Hollywood to cut back on the trashy movies and shows. Some of this is already being done and making a dent in the deterioration of culture. But far more needs to be done. Too many people are complacently sitting on their couches doing nothing as the country declines around us. It’s a huge battle and there are a lot of powerful entities to take on, but the alternative is further decay and the decline of our once great civilization. anymore just to have it scrapped in one of the major areas where people engage in speech nowadays? A study found that using Twitter as an educational tool brought students’ test scores down.
How?
Not use their product?
Uhhhhh....NO!
The Roman Empire fell into the same abyss of entertainment and debauchery.
Keeping Up with The Debauchery.
"The term "Judæo Christian" first appears in a letter from Alexander McCaul which is dated October 17, 1821. In this case the term referred to Jewish converts to Christianity. The term was similarly used by Joseph Wolff in 1829, in reference to a type of church that would observe some Jewish traditions in order to convert Jews."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian
In the west.
Woody Harrelson playing the part of Nimitz instead of Henry Fonda turns me off.
Had Harrelson’s brain been in Nimitz, we’d have lost that war three weeks after that battle.
Had Harrelson’s brain been in Nimitz, we’d have lost that battle.
"Are you not entertained?" -- said by some guy with a sword.
Any mention of the Fonda family turns me off.
“one of the daughters made a sex tape and has an enormous behind.”
Sorry, much worse than that. Though it was put forth as an ‘amateur tape’ that was ‘stolen’, the truth actually came out. It was shot by a production company, who when they were stiffed on payment, threatened to start selling it themselves. Payment was immediately made by the person that has contacted the work. Hint, it wasn’t any of the daughters.
The entire bunch of them are collectively the worst example that could be offered to young kids. A series about a Mexican drug mob would not be worse!
More like Keeping Away From the Trashdashians.
I think social media dumbs people down and harms the thinking process through information overload. More and more, I bump into people who talk like this:
“There was this guy, and … well, whatever … and then last week, the … you know? But anyways, my car was all like, Ugh! And I’m like No! And the car is like Yup! And … whatever … so now on Tuesday I’m … but it’s Ok I guess … I mean, whatever.”
I don’t know how anyone functions with a brain like that. That sort of “thought pattern” used to be a lot less common.
I went to the Metropolitan Opera yesterday. There were a lot of other people there including children. I overheard many conversations on my way in that made it clear that quite a few who attended were first-timers. All is not lost. (Occasional Sunday afternoon performances are new this year.)
ML/NJ
Dumbo Woody is Nimitz?!? Might as well have cast Pee Wee Herman. No, Pee Wee (in character) would have been a step up.
I haven’t watched any of those shows or movies mentioned except “Leave It To Beaver” and don’t have a silly blue tweety bird account.
It was her equally trashy mother who thought it up, directed it and sold it to get fame. Robert was still alive so makes you wonder.
BTW, where is OJ's garment bag?
The Kardashians are everywhere! Dailymail in England has several stories everyday. Yahoo main site same thing.
I blame it all on Barbara Billingsley (RIP) who played June Cleaver. She spoke jive.
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