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why do adults blame everything on the media?
My entire life everything was the media's fault. TV is “dumbing down" our children, horror/slasher movies and video games cause violent behaviors, slutty celebrities influence children. This isn't true. That's your own fault for not making them get off it, and I watch TV, but my grades are perfectly fine. Also, what annoys me is They got rid of cookie monster, because parents blame child obesity on it. Here's a fucking idea, stop buying your kids so much crap, and they won't be fat. I play violent killing games and despite what my mom thinks will happen, I don't go and trash offices, torture people, and stick knifes through peoples back. I listen to Miley Cyrus, but I don't take sex videos, or ride naked on wrecking balls. Songs don't influence me to “bight that" or “patron shots can I get a refil" so why to people do this?
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I don't know how old you are but you have earned a gold star for what you have written. The problem is not the media per say it is parents not parenting. Parent and teachers are not teaching children today to be independent thinkers to judge things for what they are. Instead, like your cookie monster observation they tend to hide things from their children instead of teaching them about what they are seeing or hearing and why it may be good or bad.
Also in the last several decades the television has become the family baby sitter. Parents park the children in front of the TV for way too many hours not monitoring what they watch. I'm not saying there are show they shouldn't watch but they should be of a proper age to watch them so they can understand them. Parents need to impress upon them is entertainment and not real and what is reality. This is where the problem is and this why people are blaming the media.
You are correct it is the parent's not the media who are at fault. Parent must become more active in teaching their children and not leaving it up to the media or the school systems to teach social skills and reality from entertainment.
Stay focused and you will do well in life.
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You have some great observations and some very good points here. Of course 'the media' is a business. Big business. It strives to give people what they want. We want to be shocked by a hooror movie, if we wish to play an aggressive and violent virtual game we would like the action to be as violent as possible. We would like our female music celebrities to be overtly sexual (aka 'slutty') rather than 'girl next door' types. It is because the visual arts have long been a 'medium' through which live out our own, perhaps socially unacceptable or illegal and unacceptable desires. Mostly this is a safe and perfectly controlled way to give vent to them. We get a buzz out of shooting up the bad guys, sometimes the thrill of BEING one of the bad guys, face hordes of zombies through the character in a film, fantasise about hot sexy Miley for a minute or two (guys) or admire her positive and confident sexuality (girls). It works perfectly well in people who can draw the line between fantasy and reality. Unfortunately there are people out there who have difficulty with this. To a greater or lesser extent. So actors get abused on the internet and in the street by individuals beacause of something their on-screen characters are doing in a movie or drama series. Susceptible young males assume girls are simply objects for their own sexual gratification. Often the sort of guys who find relationships with girls difficult and have little opportunity to learn that this 'is not so' with real relationships. And an 'armchair sociopath' might get the idea that he can be the same avenging force for good or personification of all things dark and evil in the real world as he/she is in the virtual role-play video game. (Normally 'he' in practice...not sexist, just observation of the facts). And graphic scenes of violence and obscenity can de-sensitise the mind to the point where the unacceptable seems perfectly acceptable. There is invariably an escalation in quite what we need to shock us. Judging by the tone of your post, you are one of the 'most of us'. You comprehend the entertainment value of entertainment! I like your liberal views and maturity (more 'adult' than many adults)! But we must always bear in mind that a society will contain members who have a tentative (or non-existent?) grip on reality and indeed may strongly dissociate reality at random. And as populations increase, even if the PERCENTAGE (or proportion if you like) of people like this remains the same, the ACTUAL NUMBER of them MUST increase. Hence, everything getting worse every year/decade/generation. I feel a bit sorry for the Cookie Monster too mate! Like you said, he's not buying food and force-feeding it to kids and making them fat!! And do people think 'slutty' and sexually prolific Miley just popped into the studio dressed (as she always dresses, no doubt...even to go shopping!)like that and hopped on and the conveniently palced wrecking ball? I am afraid some do, yes. You're OK. Have a great day!
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It's a human thing. I don't remember exactly how the quote goes, but basically states that "anything invented before you were born is old and quaint, anything invented in the first third of your life is a mainstay, everything inveted in the second third is a novelty, and everything invented in the last third is an abomination that is corrupting our youth." This goes back a very long way, Aristotle hated writing of all things, he felt it would make people stupid because they didn't have to remember things anymore. People hated phones, the printing press, and really most thing when they were invented.
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