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^^Thank God the 3 Stooges are on Antenna TV.
I'd say it's a definite factor. Also a reflection of it too in a strange self parodying way maybe. I have seen television from the 60's until now.
The stuff from the 60's was relatively harmless, quaint even.
I stopped watching it for the most part in the 70's when it all became a lot of cop shows and sitcoms. All commercial drek.
I've caught glimpses of it here and there in the intervening years to the present, and I see it getting worse and worse for the most part.
Very little TV has any redeeming value anymore, MTV being one of the worst offenders.
And, if kids are just sat down in front of The Idiot Box after school because mom and dad are off working to keep up with the Jonses, they get programmed I think. (Maybe this is why it's called "programming"?) They see things on a daily basis that kids should just not really see I think. Violence, sex, etc., and with cable TV,....ferghetaboutdit.:eusa_doh: At no time in history were children ever exposed to such a media blitz of evil as they are today, and it just gets worse and worse. But it is so all pervasive now, I fear there is no cure.
I'd say without equivocation that this "programming" has contributed significantly to the decline of civilization.
You are absolutely right about this.Basically, teachers are scapegoats for inept parents. Politicians would be out of a job at their next election if they criticized the people who make children into who and what they are before they reach school.
Basically, teachers are scapegoats for inept parents.
^^Thank God the 3 Stooges are on Antenna TV.
No cable tv for my daughter. We watch DVDs instead. Lately, we're on a Star Trek kick. She loves watching the original ones with James T. Kirk and Spock (the episode "Spock's Brain" had us all giggling). Plus she adores Hogan's Heroes. I absolutely REFUSE to get cable (plus it's expensive!).
"Brain and brain!! What is brain?!" lol
Seriously though, getting rid of cable has saved me $750.00 a year (I'm sure its more expensive now) and a lot of bad juju. A friend of mine loves watching MTV, and I get completely sick every time I watch it with her.
"Brain and brain!! What is brain?!" lol
Seriously though, getting rid of cable has saved me $750.00 a year (I'm sure its more expensive now) and a lot of bad juju. A friend of mine loves watching MTV, and I get completely sick every time I watch it with her.
You're not kidding about the saving. We never had satellite or cable at home, and since I moved into my own place ten years ago, I'v stuck with free to air. Anything I would want to watch on subscription TV either eventually makes it to free to air or would be cheaper to buy on DVD anyhow. There's a load of great stuff on the free digital channels over here, specially the BBC. ITV1 is, of course, rubbish as ever but the ITV3 & 4 channels show a lot of great old repeats. I'm a big fan of Film Four too. I have watched a little TV in other places in the world, and I find it interesting to get a feel for the local pop culture that way. I wish I spoke more Mandarin, as Chinese TV seems to be full of interesting looking historical dramas. German TV has some nice things, but I did notice a very big BBC-shaped hole. US TV, including HBO, seems to have some great shows, but I could never settle to watch anything properly with an ad break every ten minutes or less, and often an unclear delineation between the ad breaks and programme content (over here there is always a title card or some sort of ident to bookend the ad break; I believe this is a requirement under broadcasting law in the UK).
Media reported anomalies aside, I've read the average age of U.S women having a first child is approximately 25-26. This is well past the childhood stage.What we have now are children raised by "children".
No cable tv for my daughter. We watch DVDs instead. Lately, we're on a Star Trek kick. She loves watching the original ones with James T. Kirk and Spock (the episode "Spock's Brain" had us all giggling). Plus she adores Hogan's Heroes. I absolutely REFUSE to get cable (plus it's expensive!).
Media reported anomalies aside, I've read the average age of U.S women having a first child is approximately 25-26. This is well past the childhood stage.
I've found that Film Four has really gone downhill in the past few years - I recall that when it first came out that there were many more foreign/indie/classic films on it, and now Jack Black films, romantic comedies and mediocre recent releases are way too much in evidence. Still, they do have the odd gem on there.
There's some interesting stuff on the Sky Arts channels from time to time.
One channel I do wish we had was TCM USA. It was the only channel I bothered to watch when I lived in the US, and I would happily swap our 500 or whatever it is cable channels for that one - the UK version is bilge in comparison.
That's the operative thing -- if anything, 25/26 was a bit old to be having a first child sixty or seventy years ago. Most people became parents for the first time in their early twenties. The question is, was a 22-year-old in 1939 or 1949 more mature/adult/responsible than a person of the same age today? A case can be made that, in the modern era, a 25 year old is still an adolescent in outlook.