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The Dumbing Down
of Society
Copyright Findawish.com
02-13-04
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Introduction:
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and definitely before sending an email, read the sources and pledge
sections.
I don't know who coined my title but I really like it
so I'm keeping it.
How much more can be written about this? How
many more opinions can be stated? Especially two weeks after the
fact, Janet Jackson's breast incident has to be worth more than the cost
all the advertising before and after the Super Bowl combined. Maybe
not, but it has to be close, especially when you start adding in all of
the people with an opinion writing about it, talking about it and
broadcasting it.
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articles (me, my wife and someone that I honestly don't know) you don't
know about this article.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, sells better than sex. Everyone knows
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So what is wrong with Janet Jackson's nipple
incident? Well, first of all, I know I saw a star shaped object on
the nipple, so no nipple was actually seen. Honestly, I only saw it
once, when it happened, and I knew right away what I had to say.
But, I waited until all the people searching for that illusive nipple on
the Internet calmed down so I wasn't taking advantage of traffic I don't
deserve. OK so actually I was coaching and didn't have time to write
this article.
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Some people say the nipple cover was a sun, I'm sure they
have figured it out by now but that's not the point.
The first thing wrong is Justin Timberlake isn't taking as
much heat as he should. It's the famous "women are degraded when
sexual things happen and men are promoted to be studs" effect. In
reality, Justin Timberlake (I hope I'm spelling his name correctly, I
truly couldn't care less if I'm not) is the one that should be taking the
heat. He was the one that bared the breast and if he wouldn't have
ripped the jacket, I can almost guarantee Janet wouldn't have.
That was the first thing but the most important thing is
that this didn't happen on MTV. This didn't happen on HBO or during
a "parental advisory" special. This happened in front of God and
everybody, without warning and without shame. If parents don't want
their kids watching the things on MTV and all the other stations,
they DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THEM. Yes, that is worth a shout.
Don't be STUPID. In this
case, even the innocent, the people trying to do the right things, the
people that trust the FCC to do their jobs were burnt.
You are always going to have the parents that don't even
want their kids to watch the TV commercials and that is their prerogative.
I don't know if I want my 4-11 year old girl knowing about erectile
dysfunction either. I don't know because I don't have a child that
age yet. To complain about commercials, however, is getting a little
bit on the ridiculous side...unless they bare Janet Jackson's breast.
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So now I'm going to start writing in a circle (I am actually talking
about this a bit but I won't be when you read this...hopefully not
anyway). The next point I want to make is, who cares. I mean
really. After everything that we see on TV. How many times
have you seen a breast with just the nipple covered? The Oscars?
The Grammy's (however that is spelled, don't watch that either unless my
wife makes me)? What about the dresses those women wear? Ever
been to a populated beach when the weather is hot? What about those
breasts? And, quite frankly, Janet Jackson's breast wasn't on the
air enough to do anything at all. They realized instantly and
switched cameras almost as quickly.
By raising such a big stink about the whole deal all of the
organizations involved are salivating at all of the publicity. Do
you think that they are not trying to advertise to the people that appreciate a good breast incident every once in awhile? Are you
sure? How many erectile dysfunction commercials were there again?
That brings me to my next point and the title of my article.
Society is being desensitized, demoralized, de-listen-to-ized,
dereligionized, demarriedized and all of the other words that I can make
up that go along those lines. Ever seen two famous women kiss on TV?
No? Neither have your parents? Your 10 year old probably has.
How many times has the public voted for something and didn't get it
passed?* Can't say Christmas any more, might hurt someone's
feelings. Can't say man and wife any more, might exclude someone.
It even goes further than that, so far that I am not going to get started.
OK one more. If a cross stands for the death of Jesus to someone
then that's fantastic for them. You can look at it like a pogo-stick
if it doesn't mean that to you.
More and more things are happening to us and slowly, but surely, the
unthought-of of is becoming main-stay even when the general public
disagrees. It extends to everything, for ump-teen years in a row we
have rejected several taxes, yet, every year, some "representative" puts
the taxes back on the ballet. Didn't want it last year, maybe we can
change their minds. They wear on you. They threaten you.
They dumb you down.
TV, like the Super Bowl halftime show, wears on you, threatens your way
of life. I know what you are thinking. Especially if you are
male...more power to the women who expose their breasts. Think of it
this way. What if your little girl saw that? What if your
little girl was exposed to that every time she turned around?
Worse yet, what if your girl wanted to do that? Not so desirable any
more huh.
Hurray for Hugh Heppner, hurray for legal porn on the Internet, hurry
for women that love to take their cloths off in private, well managed
clubs, nude beaches and adult parties. If they can do that with a
clear conscience then good for them. Seriously. That's
America. If you want it, it is there. The line is drawn,
however, when people that don't want that in their lives are subjected to
it, when their families are subjected to it without their knowledge, let
alone consent, and without warning. The main stream rules. The
main stream says that those actions are not main stream. A few people want
to dumb down the main stream to make a few bucks. In the process
they are dumbing down society because society just takes it. Are you
going to take it?
*Don't even start about the Presidency...you know how that works, or
should; Bush is the President. He won. Period.
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I may be stupid but so are you. Stupidity is not in the eye of the
beholder. Stupidity is believing that you are not stupid like the rest of
us.
My Pledge
As you may notice in the many articles to come, I absolutely can not
stand people that have an opinion about something they know very little
about or didn't take the time to research before giving their opinion. I
pledge that I will not write a single article about a subject that I don't
know enough about to see several sides of the issue. If you think I am
missing something,
I'd love to be the first to know about it.
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