Our situation over the next 10 years will decline much faster than the previous 10 did. The safety-mechanisms of decorum, empathy, and basic manners slowed the "progress" of the Leftist Agenda in previous decades. These qualities were normally passed down by parents, family, and teachers in the days when they were the most-influential aspect of a child's development. Those days are gone forever, as the now-near-vertical Slippery Slope provides a steady flow of propaganda and programming advertising the joys of degeneracy and rejecting American Tradition, with very little balance from sensible traditional viewpoints. If you're curious about what to expect from the "behavior" of young people 10 years from now, just look at the state of TV/movies/internet "culture": that is exactly where many of them are receiving their behavioral cues, opinions, and "aspirations."
Violence and anti-American sentiments were rare to see on TV/in movies when I was a child. The TV content of the 1970s was unrecognizable from the 1960s where there was little if any foul language, with shows like "All In The Family" and "Three's Company" not only using an unprecedented degree of "naughty words," but discussing topics never allowed on sitcom-TV before like homosexuality, abortion, vasectomies, rape, incest, and racism- often playing these topics for laughs. (Coincidencidentally: all of these topics are hot-button Leftist Agenda issues.) Up to that point, TV shows were more in the mode of "Leave It To Beaver" and the "Andy Griffith Show," with guns/violence mostly depicted in Westerns and crime-dramas. Regardless of the type of story, a shooting was rarely shown in a graphic and sensationalized manner: just a "bang," someone grabs their chest hnnnnnggg and falls over. On the occasions where a blood-spot marked the "wound," the impact to the viewer was lessened by the black-and-white presentation, as color TVs/programming were not common in the Flyover States until later into the 60s/70s as I recall.
Here's a trailer from 1969 that I remember like yesterday explaining the new-at-the-time movie ratings. At the end, the announcer credits the "motion picture code of self-regulation" that replaced the Standards and Practices groups that formerly confined TV and movie content to the "Rated G" zone. As always with Leftist-controlled organizations, they were fibbing: "self-regulation" led to levels of nudity, sex and violence never before seen in movies before, as the Slippery Slope began to tilt to a more-noticeable angle.
Meanwhile on TV the 1980s took a much more drastic tumble, with network shows taken by surprise by the arrival of HBO/Cinemax/MTV etc, and scurrying to compete. If I remember correctly my family didn't have standard cable TV until the early 1980s and at that time, it was still just the "big 3" broadcast channels and PBS- nothing like the hundreds of channels we see on modern cable/satellite packages. This had the easily-foreseeable effect of young people having access to R-rated movies and the soft-core porn of Cinemax, where they would normally not be able to get into adult-oriented movies in theatres without a parent/guardian, in my area anyway they were fairly strict on that.
That very swiftly brought us to today, with many young people having little parental supervision of their internet viewing (and their ever-present cellphones giving them 24-7 access anywhere they may be, to watch anything they want.) A friend of mine caught her pre-school child giggling at his web-browser-equipped hand-held video game... watching You Know What. Of course they always made him show the game display on TV after that, and made much more of an effort to supervise his internet activities (as opposed to no effort before.) But this is an extra-large Red Pill on the precocious sexual attitudes and activities of young people today- far too many of them have seen a "quality" and quantity of extremely deviant/violent porn that didn't even exist when I was in my teens.
Of course along with all of that, the "entertainment" business delivers an overwhelming amount of truly bad behavior, not at all presented in a manner that suggests this is not the way civilized people should behave: dishonesty, deception, robbery, drunk-driving, drug-dealing, rudeness, unnecessary violence, often presented as funny- or even goals to aspire to to get ahead in life. With the last 2-3 generations growing up on a steady diet of that, and in many cases without proper parenting, it is no surprise that we see such mayhem in the world today (and the real-life examples are even worse, if you consider the fake "news" networks sensationalizing and encouraging BLM/Antifa riots as "peaceful protests" with chaotic looting and fires in the background.)
Consider this: children today see gays and transvestites getting glowing adoration and pandering on TV, with the New Normalization of Drag Queen Story Hour World. Of course some of the more-impressionable will want that for themselves, long before their body and minds have developed enough to weather the consequences. They have been indoctrinated to crave attention like a drug, and have been taught that no amount of acting-out is too extreme to "achieve" that attention-fix. Same deal with all the gangstas-and-gunplay movies/music videos glorifying thug-life, jogger kids see all that bling and pimps and hos and "cap-bustin" on TV, and as soon as they can steal mom's boyfriend's gun, off they go attempting to imitate that- with generally disastrous results.
tl;dr Nip the bud on this or future generations are even more fucked than we are.
Thank you for your patience in reading all that <3 <3 <3
I talk with a lot of 40-and-younger people who aren't aware of a lot of that stuff, they think you are trolling them when you say there was no internet before they were born, and that people didn't always have a cell-phone in their hand. (This must be how my great-grandparents felt telling me about going everywhere on horseback or wagon... or on foot, landline phones & radio weren't invented yet, etc.)
I feel that it's very important to look at the rate of decay of our society. In the 1960s when I was a child, it wasn't just TV/movies, I do not recall people using curse-words in public very often, not even "hell or damn." Nobody under 12 did that very often either, we'd get our hide tanned. What I do remember: if someone used "naughty words" in front of ladies or children, they were either called out for it, or after they left we got a quiet talk on "these are not polite words, that was not a polite person, and we're sorry you had to see an adult that doesn't know how to behave properly." That is the world I grew up in. And it worked, as an adult I watch my language around ladies, children, families, and religious people. (My apologies for the rather-intense language I use here on occasion, I sometimes forget how that sounds to our large religious contingent and our large number of LadyPedes.)
I guess my point is, that's how the Slippery Slope went. Those small shifts in what was acceptable to broadcast or say in public were drastic at the time. But this was done very gradually, so as not to alarm the Conservative populace. After the 1980s, it started happening really fast. Every decade seemed like an exponentially-expanding growth-industry of degeneracy and profanity spilling out from MSM into the heads of the populace, who were imitating the language and fashion and "behavior" they learned from the programming. From the Worst 0bama years on it became "anything goes," with easily-offended SJWs controlling MSM and using it to try to offend normal people By Any Means Necessary.
And that's how an illiterate drop-out ratchet-brain hoodrat like Cardi B can have a song in the Top 10 called "Wet A$$ Pu$$y" (who boasts not only of the profitability and "quality" of her nether regions, but also is very proud of drugging and robbing her "tricks" back in the day) and this is seen as "qualification" to conduct the only interview of "substance" of SleepyCreepy Biden's secluded basement "campaign." As crazy as all that sounds (and it is: all of that is factually accurate) the craziest part-to me- is nobody bats an eye, this is seen as the manifestation of the "New Normal." Usually, a dirty DNC career-politician would try to hide their connections to a stripper/prostitute or any person with a long criminal history. In this case, nobody was concerned about the "optics," beyond hoping the silly pandering "interview" (conducted by a person who barely speaks coherent English) would draw in the votes of BLM enthusiasts.
> The "woke" rapper-womyn who interviewed Biden had a very profane music video out at that time "wearing" little more than animal-print body-paint. That is how much they "care about optics."
Our situation over the next 10 years will decline much faster than the previous 10 did. The safety-mechanisms of decorum, empathy, and basic manners slowed the "progress" of the Leftist Agenda in previous decades. These qualities were normally passed down by parents, family, and teachers in the days when they were the most-influential aspect of a child's development. Those days are gone forever, as the now-near-vertical Slippery Slope provides a steady flow of propaganda and programming advertising the joys of degeneracy and rejecting American Tradition, with very little balance from sensible traditional viewpoints. If you're curious about what to expect from the "behavior" of young people 10 years from now, just look at the state of TV/movies/internet "culture": that is exactly where many of them are receiving their behavioral cues, opinions, and "aspirations."
Violence and anti-American sentiments were rare to see on TV/in movies when I was a child. The TV content of the 1970s was unrecognizable from the 1960s where there was little if any foul language, with shows like "All In The Family" and "Three's Company" not only using an unprecedented degree of "naughty words," but discussing topics never allowed on sitcom-TV before like homosexuality, abortion, vasectomies, rape, incest, and racism- often playing these topics for laughs. (Coincidencidentally: all of these topics are hot-button Leftist Agenda issues.) Up to that point, TV shows were more in the mode of "Leave It To Beaver" and the "Andy Griffith Show," with guns/violence mostly depicted in Westerns and crime-dramas. Regardless of the type of story, a shooting was rarely shown in a graphic and sensationalized manner: just a "bang," someone grabs their chest hnnnnnggg and falls over. On the occasions where a blood-spot marked the "wound," the impact to the viewer was lessened by the black-and-white presentation, as color TVs/programming were not common in the Flyover States until later into the 60s/70s as I recall.
Here's a trailer from 1969 that I remember like yesterday explaining the new-at-the-time movie ratings. At the end, the announcer credits the "motion picture code of self-regulation" that replaced the Standards and Practices groups that formerly confined TV and movie content to the "Rated G" zone. As always with Leftist-controlled organizations, they were fibbing: "self-regulation" led to levels of nudity, sex and violence never before seen in movies before, as the Slippery Slope began to tilt to a more-noticeable angle.
Meanwhile on TV the 1980s took a much more drastic tumble, with network shows taken by surprise by the arrival of HBO/Cinemax/MTV etc, and scurrying to compete. If I remember correctly my family didn't have standard cable TV until the early 1980s and at that time, it was still just the "big 3" broadcast channels and PBS- nothing like the hundreds of channels we see on modern cable/satellite packages. This had the easily-foreseeable effect of young people having access to R-rated movies and the soft-core porn of Cinemax, where they would normally not be able to get into adult-oriented movies in theatres without a parent/guardian, in my area anyway they were fairly strict on that.
That very swiftly brought us to today, with many young people having little parental supervision of their internet viewing (and their ever-present cellphones giving them 24-7 access anywhere they may be, to watch anything they want.) A friend of mine caught her pre-school child giggling at his web-browser-equipped hand-held video game... watching You Know What. Of course they always made him show the game display on TV after that, and made much more of an effort to supervise his internet activities (as opposed to no effort before.) But this is an extra-large Red Pill on the precocious sexual attitudes and activities of young people today- far too many of them have seen a "quality" and quantity of extremely deviant/violent porn that didn't even exist when I was in my teens.
Of course along with all of that, the "entertainment" business delivers an overwhelming amount of truly bad behavior, not at all presented in a manner that suggests this is not the way civilized people should behave: dishonesty, deception, robbery, drunk-driving, drug-dealing, rudeness, unnecessary violence, often presented as funny- or even goals to aspire to to get ahead in life. With the last 2-3 generations growing up on a steady diet of that, and in many cases without proper parenting, it is no surprise that we see such mayhem in the world today (and the real-life examples are even worse, if you consider the fake "news" networks sensationalizing and encouraging BLM/Antifa riots as "peaceful protests" with chaotic looting and fires in the background.)
Consider this: children today see gays and transvestites getting glowing adoration and pandering on TV, with the New Normalization of Drag Queen Story Hour World. Of course some of the more-impressionable will want that for themselves, long before their body and minds have developed enough to weather the consequences. They have been indoctrinated to crave attention like a drug, and have been taught that no amount of acting-out is too extreme to "achieve" that attention-fix. Same deal with all the gangstas-and-gunplay movies/music videos glorifying thug-life, jogger kids see all that bling and pimps and hos and "cap-bustin" on TV, and as soon as they can steal mom's boyfriend's gun, off they go attempting to imitate that- with generally disastrous results.
tl;dr Nip the bud on this or future generations are even more fucked than we are.
Wow. That was a fantastic breakdown from somebody older and wiser than me. Thank you
Thank you for your patience in reading all that <3 <3 <3
I talk with a lot of 40-and-younger people who aren't aware of a lot of that stuff, they think you are trolling them when you say there was no internet before they were born, and that people didn't always have a cell-phone in their hand. (This must be how my great-grandparents felt telling me about going everywhere on horseback or wagon... or on foot, landline phones & radio weren't invented yet, etc.)
I feel that it's very important to look at the rate of decay of our society. In the 1960s when I was a child, it wasn't just TV/movies, I do not recall people using curse-words in public very often, not even "hell or damn." Nobody under 12 did that very often either, we'd get our hide tanned. What I do remember: if someone used "naughty words" in front of ladies or children, they were either called out for it, or after they left we got a quiet talk on "these are not polite words, that was not a polite person, and we're sorry you had to see an adult that doesn't know how to behave properly." That is the world I grew up in. And it worked, as an adult I watch my language around ladies, children, families, and religious people. (My apologies for the rather-intense language I use here on occasion, I sometimes forget how that sounds to our large religious contingent and our large number of LadyPedes.)
I guess my point is, that's how the Slippery Slope went. Those small shifts in what was acceptable to broadcast or say in public were drastic at the time. But this was done very gradually, so as not to alarm the Conservative populace. After the 1980s, it started happening really fast. Every decade seemed like an exponentially-expanding growth-industry of degeneracy and profanity spilling out from MSM into the heads of the populace, who were imitating the language and fashion and "behavior" they learned from the programming. From the Worst 0bama years on it became "anything goes," with easily-offended SJWs controlling MSM and using it to try to offend normal people By Any Means Necessary.
And that's how an illiterate drop-out ratchet-brain hoodrat like Cardi B can have a song in the Top 10 called "Wet A$$ Pu$$y" (who boasts not only of the profitability and "quality" of her nether regions, but also is very proud of drugging and robbing her "tricks" back in the day) and this is seen as "qualification" to conduct the only interview of "substance" of SleepyCreepy Biden's secluded basement "campaign." As crazy as all that sounds (and it is: all of that is factually accurate) the craziest part-to me- is nobody bats an eye, this is seen as the manifestation of the "New Normal." Usually, a dirty DNC career-politician would try to hide their connections to a stripper/prostitute or any person with a long criminal history. In this case, nobody was concerned about the "optics," beyond hoping the silly pandering "interview" (conducted by a person who barely speaks coherent English) would draw in the votes of BLM enthusiasts.
> The "woke" rapper-womyn who interviewed Biden had a very profane music video out at that time "wearing" little more than animal-print body-paint. That is how much they "care about optics."