| ??? 08/06/06 16:02 Read: times |
#121748 - You missed the point! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Craig Steiner said:
Richard Erlacher said:
They watch "Fear Factor" where people are paid to eat bugs and they can't tear themselves away from their iPods and cellphones. They buy poorly built, gas-guzzling automobiles of ultra-low quality because the football player on the screen tells them to do that. They can't think for themselves. How can anyone expect their kids to be any sort of an improvement on that? Craig said: I don't deny any of that. I'm not sure if Leave it to Beaver was really any more demanding on the intelligence than Fear Factor, though. Yes, but "Leave it to Beaver" promoted basic values, such as "Don't steal, don't lie, don't do things just to hurt someone." Fear factor is just another version of feeding Christians to the lions for the entertainment of the masses. Doesn't that tell you anything? Isn't it just history repeating itself? Andy Peters said:
The point that's missed is simply that the rich have no intention of letting the lower-classes join in the fun. Craig said:
The lower classes don't stay in the lower class because the rich keep them there. They stay in the lower classes because they are too busy watching Fear Factor to actually better themselves and get ahead in life. I really cannot accept anyone that truly believes that the "rich are out to get them." It does, however, suggest to me that the Democrats' efforts of the 90's to engage in class warfare were, in fact, somewhat successful. That's too bad. The lower classes stay where they are because they are unable to amass the momentum to overcome gravity. They watch "Fear Factor", etc, because there's not much else available. The car commercials are clearly aimed at idiots. The TV fare is limited to promotion of what the rich are selling. They want everybody to be more concerned about what's "kewl" than what's sensible. When I refer to the "rich," I don't mean guys with a 6-figure income. I refer to the guys with a 10-figure net worth. If you have less than that, you'r not "rich." If you're not "rich" already, it's unlikely you ever will be. The ones who are, will see to that. They've already laid the groundwork. The U.S. education system is full of teachers who have no life experience, no professional experience, and no desire to get any. All they know is "how to teach," without a shred of "what to teach." They're mostly mindless consumers who, just to ensure that their views aren't overruled by the parents, immediately, in first grade, tell students that their parents can't make them do anything. They then proceed to preach that the parents' values, morals, religion, politics, and ethics are wrong. They don't offer a positive construct, either. They've got nothing positive to offer. Since they see the kids more than their parents to, they teach them to be mindless consumers just as they are. RE |
