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In reply to the discussion: A serious question: Has Reality TV help to dumb down our society? I'm not saying it is all the [View all]dimbear
(6,271 posts)6. The reason so much tv is crap is that there are too many channels.
The magic of the marketplace has turned most tv to zombie food. Back in the day when there were three networks, they had to try to please a large share of the viewers. Now they're ecstatic if they grab 10%.
You see the same effect in the movies. Back when movies were most of what was happening practically everybody went once a week. People dressed up to go to the important ones. Now? Uh-uh.
Yes, I'm a geezer.
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A serious question: Has Reality TV help to dumb down our society? I'm not saying it is all the [View all]
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
OP
Check out the block buster moveies at you local cinema. If I want to see good movies
demosincebirth
Jun 2012
#2
It's been my observation that some time in childhood most people stop asking "Why?" all the time..
Fumesucker
Jun 2012
#4
Interesting...I know my hunger for answers has not died. Yes, I know where to find the answers and
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#5
I wonder if part of the reason that people stop wondering so much and asking questions
Quantess
Jun 2012
#19
And the socially maladroit don't pick up on the cues and continue to ask questions..
Fumesucker
Jun 2012
#21
i was yelled at all my life for asking why. it totally bewildered me. i still don't understand why
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#32
As an incipient geezer, I was around as well and I disagree. Television might not have
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#17
I certainly do. I can remember how excited we were when our town got its second
dimbear
Jun 2012
#51
There's a difference between intelligence or aptitude and actual developed skills.
patrice
Jun 2012
#10
I'm not saying there isn't a place for sit-coms like Bewitched and munsters or Dramas like Gunsmoke
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#23
That is the main asset of some of it: you can zone out your brain, if you want to. I don't watch
patrice
Jun 2012
#26
You bring up Doctor Who (A favorite of mine...) and you know what's "scary" about that-- that's
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#14
Parents may have been different too, in that, like mine, though poor, they listened to opera & jazz
patrice
Jun 2012
#12
The mere fact that Kim Kardashian is a celebrity while having contributed *NOTHING* of value to society...
Initech
Jun 2012
#16
There will never be another Marilyn! That combination of beauty, talent, and mind
patrice
Jun 2012
#24
You are right. She was smart. I saw the movie Don't bother knocking and I was amazed at her
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#27
Also Bus Stop & The Misfits. She was too unusual for her time; that made her vulnerable.
patrice
Jun 2012
#29
Please rewrite my post! I guess since I am not Grammar-PERFECT I should be shoot in the head
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#39
Then PLEASE place me on ignore. Or Complain I am a Troll which ever makes you happy
lookingfortruth
Jun 2012
#46
I don't doubt from your remarks here that you're intelligent and insightful
Harry Monroe
Jun 2012
#53
If anything it's a symptom of a society that is already being "dumbed down".
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#44