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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]
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)8. Not exactly a new phenomenon..
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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