Guest guest Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 > > I can't help but recall Plato's Republic wherein he says that bards must be > either strictly regulated or banned because they are a danger to the moral > fiber of a nation. Here they go proving it again more than 2,000 years later. > > > >Out in America, voters still have the common sense to believe profanities aren't the kind of speech you wave the flag over, as if " fleeting " profanity were a cause as American as apple pie. Most Americans think the quality of entertainment is in steep decline. An AP/Ipsos poll last summer asked if TV shows in general were getting better or worse, and only 22 percent said " better, " while 62 percent picked " worse. " Politicians in Washington ought to find defending children from televised profanity to be the safest issue imaginable. Hollywood wouldn't need " interference " from Washington if it would simply do what it knows is the right thing. The industry knows it's wrong to encourage and glamorize smoking for young and impressionable children. Isn't preventing the air pollution of unnecessary profanity just as much an open-and-shut case? I am sure I don't need to point this out but many of us learned about how to interact from other via television. while many of us may have watched cosby or really what have you, the moral climate seems to have gotten a lot " hotter " shall we say in this generation. what can we hope our young visual learners can gleen out of these degenerative social exchanges. Bad bad ideas on what interaction is like and what will lead to a friend or mate. In one case i cannot stomach Barney because he is soo unrealistic but feeding my child violent and foul mouthed senarios isn't any better. In any case parents must need to all quit any paying jobs they might have because they have to organize what will be watched, taught, experienced, keep them from harm and educate the public at large. If all the money for their programming dried up maybe they wiould be more willing to listen (seriously offering the v-chip solution) so their solution is to force parents to moniter anything they may put on the tube. perhaps this is a back-door tactic to censure youtube? In any case brace for more fun from social, friendly, NT society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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