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The Alternate World Our Children Want to Live In
In his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, author Neil Postman describes the growth and outright dominance of the entertainment industry and the all-pervading influence it has had upon American culture. More to the point – the book illustrated how a culture could literally be dumbed down by the type of entertainment it dealt with and consisted of. Equally telling in the author’s mind was how much time was spent viewing and reading material that was as frivolously meaningless as it was sensual and vulgar.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Media Watch
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Amusing Ourselves to Death, B.F. Skinner, Brave New World, Charles Bronson, Charles Darwin, Clint Eastwood, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sarte, Jimmy Cagney, Karl Marx, Neil Postman, roe vs. wade, Sigmund Freud
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The Sensation Nation
A common refrain when people lament violence, sex and f-bombs in movies, goes: “How did we get from the golden days of Hollywood to this?”
Actually, Hollywood, with many notable exceptions, has been at war with decency and American values since its inception. It just wasn’t as starkly apparent.
Posted in Media Watch
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alfred Kinsey, Brave New World, Hollywood, Hugh Hefner, Irene Dunn, Judith Reisman, Kinsey, Melvyn Douglas, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, National Review, New York Times, Pitirim Sorokin, Playboy, Pleasantville, Politico.com, Roe v. Wade, Sex and Fraud, Sidney Buchman, The Crisis of Our Age, Theodora Goes Wild, Turner Classic Movies
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