Is TV responsible for today's society

[hazard02]

I changed my mind, blame the parents.

A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...l.html?taf=den

[Number One]

Perhaps it is those whom don't see these people, and instead moan and complain about the youf of today instead of participating and enjoying it, who are responsible for dragging it down?

+1!

Everyone has said all the things I'm thinking are "wrong" with our society and I think it is fair to say that it will always be like this and we will always continue to get worse

General and embedded apathy and Desensitization to issues (most especially dangerous for those and those close to the very target audience of the mechanical)

Lack of parenting skills + an overload of conflicting information and advice

Cold reality of this dog eat dog world and every man has to be for himself - Less altruism

Things are on fast forward

Global communication ability

Media slickness and ability to manipulate us with our wants, desires and emotions


Anyway this is all too deep - time for a cuddle with my boy watching Willy Wonka

But I concur with a lot of people on this thread. Positive note...Love the one your with

[karla]

What's wrong with today's society?

It looks pretty damn fine from where I am sitting

It might be somewhat different, but is it really any worse than 10 or 20 years ago? I think not...

I agree with Flatcap. Society is no better, nor worse - it's just different than it was 10 or 20 years ago, and we have different problems.

I think that if we watch a lot of TV, especially the news, we might start to 'think' that society is bad.

I don't watch TV, and am out all the time being in the real world, and from my point of view (away from the couch) it is beautiful world full of great people.

Not perfect, but pretty damned good.

[yungatart]

In this day of "instant" everything, when someone stuffs up it is global news really quickly. The bigger the mess, the quicker the story gets around. Only bad news sells, people are not interested in hearing the good things that most young people are doing in their daily life.
I work with teens, and they, for the most part, are enthusiastic, caring and funloving. We don't get to hear about it, that's all.

[BAD DAD]

I,ve always thought that I was a reasonably independent thinker and actively non-conformist in outlook and action in many ways. Those thoughts still stand, but with the benefit of an increasing amount of hindsight, I just cannot ignore the influences that TV along with music and literature has had on me. I cringe when I see young Kiwis shuffling about with their pants hanging lower than their scrotums and wearing NewYorkCity baseball caps, basketball shit and all that hand waving ape action. It's all media fed. Anyway, I admit that decades ago I was of a generation that was similarly influenced. That's why I still wear jeans and why I had long hair since I was an early teens ( getting a bit white and thin now ). Footage of Mods & Rockers, Woodstock, Beatles, Led zep, T Rex, The Who...we won't get fooled again..Anti Nuke demonstrations, bla bla bla. It all came down "the tube".
I can't be alone in those influences. Looking through old photo albums of my own and those of my peers appears evidential. Youtube confirms the past and the present, to me at least.

[Skyryder]

It's not one thing but many. There are no values in todays society. Respect and an ethical standard of moral behavour dissapeared when Muldoon became the leader of the National party. Now we have no standards due to the belief that it is more important to win than play fair.

We have one of the highest rates of solo parenting in the Western world. Children with both biological parents are becoming a rareity. Kids have two homes and are shipped from one to the other because mum and dad can not agree. The bottomline on this is that society has become unstable and you can not bring up children in an unstable environment and expect them to behave in an orderly manner.

Whose to blame for all of this................we all are because we have allowed our society to develop with little or no consequnces for improper behavour.

Skyryder

[Hitcher]

Oh that life was so simple so that only one thing could be singled out for the demise of The World As We Know It. Apart from The Bloody Labour Gummint, of course...

[Coyote]

It's horrible hearing the storied my Dad has, coming home from being a secondary school English teacher. They are given no power whatsoever so the kids are free to disrespect him.

The cane needs to be brought back, but now the idea of "my child is too precious to be harmed/I deny they did anything bad" mentality is ingrained into society so it'll never come back. It becomes the parent's fault too.

[Hitcher]

It becomes the parents fault too.

Particularly when apostrophes are inappropriately used. Or not.

[Coyote]

Particularly when apostrophes are inappropriately used. Or not.

I think I'm allowed a few mistakes. Unlike many teenagers I actually try to write correctly.

[JATZ]

the treaty of waitangi is responsible for most of todays problems. if the fuckin maori didnt spend their lives blaming everyone for their own problems perhaps they would join the europeans in this century and start acting civilised, get themselves a education, and get on with it.......most of them are a pretty poor excuse for human beings

IMHO thats a pretty broad statement. I know some very hard working honest maoris, I also know some dead beat ones, same goes for europeans,
I think its a mixture of a whole raft of things none of which can be fixed over night,it will take years to fix the mistakes made by people over the last 30 odd years.
Getting rid of uncle hellen and bringing back bullrush and the cane is a good place to start

[McJim]

IMHO thats a pretty broad statement.

In order to be humerous it had to be a broad statement. when you try to get accurate the humour escapes for some reason. However when you make an inaccurate sweeping statement for humerous reasons it is often compounded by someone anal pointing out that it's a broad statement. Priceless

[homer]

i say no
but in the mean time the simpsons are on so im going back to watching tv

[hayd3n]

the treaty of waitangi is responsible for most of todays problems. if the fuckin maori didnt spend their lives blaming everyone for their own problems perhaps they would join the europeans in this century and start acting civilised, get themselves a education, and get on with it.......most of them are a pretty poor excuse for human beings

id like to see you say that to my some family of mine

[Big Dave]