- Joined
- Jan 5, 2007
- Messages
- 1,480
- Reaction score
- 124
- Points
- 63
- Location
- Where the old Baker farm used to be.
- Your Mac's Specs
- Apple Black MacBook 2 GB RAM, 2.0 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo Proecessor, 120 GB HD. 30 GB Black iPod Video
my original post about this may have been a bit of vague hyperbole for the sake of making a point.
in the u.s. it is very common to see real nasty violence on even broadcast television, and in places you wouldn't necessarily expect (football, the news, commercials - especially movie trailers, etc).
it is also very common to see rudeness, thoughtlessness, and selfishness in all its glory on the idiot box and in movies.
it is however not as acceptable to show people with few or no clothes on, which is a lot more natural than being shot. you are also not very likely to see normal intimate contact and sex as easily as you would see violence.
the math should be pretty easy to do.
even if you do have pretty vigilant parents, the reality of the world through that box is so skewed that it's difficult to regulate or even really understand the effects of the stuff our kids (and adults) are watching and what it's really doing to our collective conscience.
as generations have grown with television, they have become increasingly more self-centered, rude, violent, less intimate, and seem to have felt more of a sense of entitlement.
i understand, as a parent, this is a mighty and treacherous foe, not only for my kid, but for me as well. as a child of the 70s, raised on television i know for a fact that i too often see the world through that filter. it's very easy to just emulate what you see on tv and not understand you are part of a bigger whole that really needs community and civility to function correctly and be truly healthy.
i may have wandered a bit, but i'm working on about 4 hrs sleep here...
Somewhere in the world Ray Bradbury is smiling at what he just read.
