You guys oversee one thing: looking TV is no one-way road, but it feeds back on the viewer, like almost all sensual input. You may think that if the plebs in the street demands some crap format, it will just be freedom of speech and that it should be honoured by delivering them what they want. But it will lead to a constant detoriating of overall quality in TV - and that is what I see happening since roughly twenty years now. Leave the decision about quality to quotas only, and you will soon have garbage TV the sort of that we now have.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Not every vulgarity needs to be delivered, not every shamelessness needs to be pleased, just because some mobs in the streets call for them. Better educate the mobs.
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By saying no, and leave them no choice than to consume better quality, or not consume at all.
Hell, we are not talking about the prohibition of political magazines, suppression of opinions on scientific opinions, and the censoring of cultural programs! Don't make this bigger than it is. We are talking about crap. C-R-A-P. Was it an attack on free press when in Germany many years ago the display of naked women on regular mainstream magazine's frontpages (not things like Penthouse or Playboy) was regulated and for the most, banned? By far it was not. Such stuff is still there. but salesmen no longer position it in the first and unhidden rows of their newspaper stands, like before.
Why is it that every piece of sh!t today gets excused and it's spreading is tolerated - always in the name of defending free speech and some undiscriminating tolerance for all and everything, no matter how bad or or stupid or dangerous or hostile it is? If that would work, why is the movie scene becoming more and more stereotypic and reduced to some cash-making schemes, and why is TV quality in free fall since so many years?
Allow open inflation of lacking quality, and you will get exactly an inflation of bad quality. See what you get so far.
Accept increasing brutalising and coarsen in medias, manners, and content in general - and you will get an increasing brutalising and coarsening of society. No wonder that more and more people are so simple-minded and show so bad manners, especially amongst the young ones.
"Eine Verrohung der Inhalte führt zu einer Verrohung der Sitten." If you read Shakespeare, you will foster the education of a certain development level of mind. If you read a primitive porn novel, you will Foster the education of a different level of mind. Which one would you choose?
Always putting things into relations until no more standards are left. Always rejecting any standards at all, and always saying that every standard, no matter what, is as valuable and must be found as worthy as any other given standard. Always being tolerant on everything, even if unlimited tolerance is only possible by completely giving up any values, any identity, and every stand of oneself. Bah. No wonder that this culture of ours is going to hell. It rots from within.
