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Bravo!

There is so much television that I just cannot stand to watch. People laugh at me because I mute commercials, but I get tired of all of the brainwashing!

 

posted by Imaginerain08 on November 24, 2008 at 6:09 PM | link to this | reply

Nice Ranting

Go ahead and rant - let the whole world know what's deept in the heart of a woman about the changing society. We live in a world of lies and soon when you tell the truth you become a non-comformist, a thorn in a society of lies. I like to rant with you too.

posted by Rotsen on November 22, 2008 at 8:51 PM | link to this | reply

Rant away my friend... your ranting makes more sense than most of the well tailored speeches I heard recently.  Great post!

posted by Sinome on November 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM | link to this | reply

Anything goes.......

posted by Corbin_Dallas on November 22, 2008 at 4:20 AM | link to this | reply

Television these days

I agree with you on every point you made. Keep writing letters to the executives and protesting media garbage. It took twenty years to get to this point. It may take another twenty years to repair the damage.

posted by demultiflex on November 22, 2008 at 4:03 AM | link to this | reply

I agree with Strat here and just like him I hope I don't live to see the

day. This is a really good rant.

posted by Kabu on November 20, 2008 at 8:30 PM | link to this | reply

I hate to say it, Kris-Sis,

but I'm pretty positive we're watching the good ol' Roman Empire circle the drain, in all its burning, fiddling glory, and I only hope I'm long gone when the Visigoths finally overrun the gates.

Lovely work as always.

posted by strat on November 20, 2008 at 7:27 PM | link to this | reply

I understand your point exactly! I tire of watching these commercials! They propose things and yet do not realize, or don't care that they are affecting the population! I am very tired of the male enhancement commercials. It just blows me away that they are so casual about it! They may use older couples but the message is plain to see! I liked everything you had to  say and couldn't agree with you more! Thank you for your visits when I was not feeling too well. It make me smile! sam

posted by sam444 on November 20, 2008 at 12:52 PM | link to this | reply

Dumbing down of society

     Kristles,

  I lament the tendencies you wrote about, right along with you. Honesty, altruism, rock-solid core values, ethics, and all the good qualities possible in humanity, seem to have been devalued, today. This is sad, but there is no way to turn back time. Censorship always has worse effects, than whatever is being censored, ever did. We have to evolve with the times, for good or bad, or be left behind. Being a geezer, I could easily have missed out on the exciting and delightful cultural changes of the sixties, and the cyber revolution that followed. On balance, when I think about things, I am a better person for having experienced the whole journey, not just the dull, familiar and safe parts. I too, squirm when I hear foul-mouthed children disrespect others, without a thought about what this says about themselves, and the family that raised them. When George Carlin was talking about cultural changes that were occuring throughout society, in the post-Kennedy years, he told of slowly increasing acceptance of long hair. Eventually every family had long-haired members and instead of seeing long hair and thinking, "Dirty, smelly, hippy drug addict!" they said, "Maybe he's like EDDY." Humans naturally resist change, but change occurs anyway. We have to live with it.

     Guy

    

posted by northsage_45 on November 20, 2008 at 6:50 AM | link to this | reply

As a new parent...

I find myself unusually fixated on the observing the world I've brought my son into. Things that used to have no relevance for me now really irritate me just because of the possibility of their influence or effect on my child. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who worries a bit about how flexible moral compasses are becoming.

posted by Fledgeling_Phoenix on November 19, 2008 at 2:19 PM | link to this | reply

posted by Star5_ on November 18, 2008 at 7:58 PM | link to this | reply

Hi lady

Yes, mam, I recall when keeping your virginity until marriage was a virtue...now, you're mocked for your inability to lose it by the age of 15.    Like a virgin,  Mel

posted by CunningLinguist on November 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM | link to this | reply

Krisles

It's uncanny - reading you, I find I can never subtract from anything you say, it's as though I were speaking...One can always add, of course, so let me add only that the casual acceptance of dishonesty signals the emergence of a slave mentality among people who, of course, have never experienced slavery...And the public display of sex not only robs the erotic of its magic, but creates an emptiness that, inevitably, will attract demons of many sorts, as George Steiner alluded to in his In Bluebeards Castle...And all that ties in with the 'dumbing down' of our society, as briefly mentioned in Corbin's post...

posted by Nautikos on November 18, 2008 at 5:20 PM | link to this | reply

Excellent post, my friend!

posted by teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade on November 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM | link to this | reply

This was as good a rant as any.  I was going to add to it but the comment got way too long.  So, I deleted it and I will just say that I am really tired of running into this woman on TV, while surfing, who keeps extolling a pill that makes larger a certain part of the male body.  I can imagine what little kids, who just happen to see it, might be thinking or asking.   "Mommie, if a man takes that pill will his nose get long like Pinnochio's?"

posted by TAPS. on November 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM | link to this | reply