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"You don't speak for me."
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My (highly ranked) public high school (in the early 1970’s) offered a GREAT English elective class for seniors simply titled “mass media”. All the class did was break-down each and every part of the media and how they are manipulating our minds. Most of the class focused on advertising and the images they used to SELL us … but TV and Movies were also broken down and exposed. In that era, we discussed “All in the Family” and how it caricatured Fathers in the typical American nuclear family as; lazy, drunk, racist, verbal abusing misogynists. The class allowed the students to filter and THINK about the images and manipulation being used to propagandize. In our “Information Age” and media culture … this class should be fundamental in every school curriculum.
Anyone who allows Hollywood to influence their opinions is stark, staring stupid.
Exactly.
Senator McCarthy was right. Hollywood is full of them. See Yuri Bezmenov’s Youtube videos.
Latest “gem” from Hollyweird, Denzel’s movie trailer, never heard this one before….
The phrase “Sunshine Enema”…..
Where is an asteriod when your kids need one?
Having finished High School in 1970, I too remember that exact Class. I never took it…was not interested in the Academic/English side of School…or any side to be honest..lol. Although it was offered, I ended up in a Shakespeare class….?? of which I took 1 lesson and never went back…could have cared less what an Englishman wrote 400 years ago….and have not changed that position today.
But to the obvious manipulation of TV…THAT I got even back then..All in the Family and Laugh-in being a couple I remember. And it was also around the same time that Broadcasters began with more opinionated LEFT type of news “reporting”…
That they do this garbage has me not PAYING squat to watch a movie should it interest me…the same goes for reg TV. Kodi..2 years now.
oh ya. I recollect how whatsisname norman lear was touted as a ‘pioneer’ with his ‘groundbreaking’ series.
like a friggin californicate 9.1 earthquake is also ‘ground breaking’.
p.s. steakman, actually, the Bard hit on a LOT of the socio-political foibles that *still* exist. you need to take another look from that perspective.
and as far as the edjukashun cystem, it will NEVER incorporate common sense cirrucula. I just had a discussion with a tenant on that; pointed out that after I finished hi school almost 50 years ago, they STILL wont tell the little darlings the first thing about pitfalls negotiating a mortgage, car loan, legal rights, separating fact from fiction, etc etc.
but feel free to invent another gender kiddies !!!
Isn’t THAT the TRUTH!! That kids graduate ALL levels of school … including 5-years of college, mortgaging their future, for a crapola degree in _ _ _ _ _ _ – Studies. Having NEVER learned basic Law, Finance, Money Management, Investing … NOTHING whatsoever to do with (arguably) the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN EVERYONES LIFE … MONEY!!! So these sods, graduate, get a crap job, and go buy a NEW car having never been taught that their new toy just LOST 30% of its value when driven off the Dealers lot. And they financed the car caring nothing for what it $COST … but only listening to the Finance Manager telling them that their $50k pickup truck has “affordable” monthly payments … over 7-years (when the truck will be worthless in 5 years).
I ALSO had the pleasure of taking a High School (elective) class titled: “Business Law”. I took the course when I was a Sophomore in HS. The course title is somewhat misleading (although we DID learn ALL BASIC contract Law), because the class was really ALL ABOUT equipping the students for basic Business. Workers rights (when serving Big Macs)… Basic Employment Law … Basic Banking (uh, like how to balance your checkbook – remember those days?) … Basic Stock Market principles, etc. etc.
I would rank THIS class as the 2nd most important High School class I ever took. “Business Typing” is still my #1 (partly because it was almost ALL girls in that class in 1972 … when women would become “typists”). The best I ever got was about 70 words per minute … but man-o-man did that skill EVER come in handy when producing Essays and Book Reports. My #3 most important class has to be Human Physiology. Yes, I can name most every bone and muscle in the body. I know every organ and what its essential duty is … on and on. I consider it PARAMOUNT for each and every human to understand HOW their BODY works. Perhaps we would have fewer sexually transmitted diseases and drug usage if everyone had a more intimate knowledge of their own MIRACULOUS body. Perhaps they would treat their bodies as the Temple God made it to be.