Remi Cornwall wrote:
Are you sure?
Yes, I have read history, and lived through it, and I am sure things
were much worse in the past. I am also sure they can get worse again.
The public are infantilised, not talk how to think, how to have any
dignity for themselves, putty infinitely mouldable in the hands of the elite.
Much less today than it was in the 1930s, or the 1830s. Look at
movies back when the US Motion Picture Production Codes were in
effect! Talk about infantilization. No movie theater in the US would
show a movie in which married couples slept in the same bed or
evildoers did not get their comeuppance by the last reel. Quoting
Wikipedia, the The Production Code enumerated three "General
Principles" as follows:
1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards
of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never
be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of
drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy
be created for its violation.
Some specifics:
The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion
were not to be represented as comic characters or villains.
References to alleged sex perversion (such as homosexuality) and
venereal disease were forbidden, as were depictions of childbirth. . . .
Can you imagine trying to pass a law enforcing that today?
There were countless other laws of this nature on the books until the 1960s.
- Jed
