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What entertains a people is a direct reflection of their society.
We've gone from Lucy & Ricky in separate beds to close-ups of people vomiting & defecating.
And we're told by some people that it's no big deal; obviously these people are enabling it.
We're in decay, gang, I don't know what turns this around.
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so let me get this straight. no one vomited or defecated when Lucy and Ricky were on TV?
I can always count on Joe to jump right in and illustrate my point.
Thanks, again.
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No, i'm just wondering how admitting on TV that people defecate or vomit (not that i've seen either on TV recently, so I have to wonder what you are watching) is a sign of decay.
Are you saying no one did those things, and married couples really did sleep in separate beds in real life in the 1950's?
If anything, the media is probably MORE prude than it was in the 1980's. I can't remember when I've seen a really graphic sex scene in a mainstream film. It was a lot more common in the 1980's, when they first replaced the Hayes rules with the MPAA, but before the MPAA got hijacked by the prudes.
Somehow you have decided to pretend that because people pooped and barfed in the 50's, comedy shows were obligated to depict it.
I don't know, Joe, there's nothing I can say to you. You'll defend the constant lowering of societal standards and our general decay forever.
Whatever works for you.
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Do you really think that if cable TV and it's 250 channels had been invented in the 60's instead of the 80's and 90's that you would have had nothing but high quality programs on all of those channels?
What you see today is a bunch of low quality channels that allow transmission of material that would have never seen the light of day when there were not these platforms for exhibition.
There is a reason there used to be these adult book stores and arcades when I was growing up and yes,when my father and mother were growing up "back then"....that was the distribution channel of it's day. When nickelodeons came on line even earlier than that, they were not producing
Citizen Kane and
Gone With the Wind. Pitchmen and bakers would stand on the street and shout at you to come see the films.
Joe doesn't need me to issue a defense for him..he wins every argument with you guys (and myself) but what he is likely trying to illustrate is that the "lowering societal standards" nonsense you speak of has always been there to some degree. As the market for a more grandiose lifestyle expands, so are the suppliers for the grandiose.