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[stevemcgarrett]

Sometimes I turn on my TV to the satellite stations to channel surf and I invariably come across things that force me to realize why so many traditional cultures regard contemporary Western cultures with such disdain.

First off, a CNN International segment about a brother-sister's legal fight in Leipzing, Germany to legalize incestuous relationships in the Bundestag. Their lawyer and support group contend that they are causing no harm to society by getting married and having children. Never mind that half their children are mentally impaired in some way, or that doctors have long since known this. That the German Supreme Court will even hear arguments for this sick moral transgression is sufficient indication of the degree of social depravity in the West.

Then you've got the ACLU in the U.S., which has provided free legal assistance to admitted pedophiles fighting for the legalization of sexual relationships with minors.

Sex in the City airs as reruns in the West and in East Asia with the sluttish quartet chronicling their most recent sexual exploits masked as feminist independence. The veneer of legitimacy from the clever dialogue, chic clothes and restaurants, and fancy boutiques is stil unable to conceal what is glorified raunch and sexual obsession. And any critics are immediately accused of being prudish or puritanical or, worse yet, chauvanistic.

In another venue, I turn to WWF and listen to inane insults, comic-book like action figure men taunting each other like schoolyard bullies, and tens of thousands of screaming fans egging them on, many if not most actually believing that the matches they're watching are real and not staged. I imagine millions of more viewers at home--whole families--tuned in to this media-hyped pseudo-sport comparing the relative strengths of these dimwit titans. Then I shudder to think how many of them are voters and hope most don't bother to go to the polls.

Finally, as if I needed more proof, I turn to a Reality TV program copied after The Bachelor, except without even so much as a feeble attempt at decency and decorum. Yes, it's Flavor Flav and his self-serving show Flavor of Love where foul-mouthed street sluts and aspiring bimbos compete to have dates with this raunchy, sexist, proudly ignorant pimp daddy who looks like Mugabe's younger brother and talks like Mike Tyson. VH-1 comes up with a reality TV idea with a black protagonist and selects the degenerate, ex-gangsta rap "star" of Public Enemy to be its host. Yes, let's reinforce those ghetto glorifying images for impressionable young black youth as if they don't get bombarded enough with this swill.

Fast forward to Cairo or Riyadh or Islamabad or New Delhi or Beijing or Jakarta or San Salvador or Havana or Ankara or Nairobi and is it any wonder why it's so easy for people viewing or reading about these stories at the very least look askance at what Western pop culture dignifies these days?

I can turn off my TV set but that won't make the growing problem go away.

And all the good things in traditional Western culture: aesthetic objects, music, art, literature, legal codes and the like that constitute an admirable civic culture get shunned to the shadows in the glow of so much bling and appeal to the lowest common denominator from Hollywood and New York and London and Paris and Berlin and Amsterdam.

[squinchboy]

I couldn't have said it better myself....

[RACETRAITOR]

One of my friends said it best: we need a Pol Pot in the west.

[ajgeddes]

[stevemcgarrett]

ajgeddes:

"Admire" this rubbish? No, they watch like people at the scene of an accident, acutely aware of its Western origins and thankful despite the momentary titillation that they don't contend with this bad influence in their own midst in their daily lives.

[Bondrock]

yes mr mcgarrett. and let's not forget the misery of shows like oprah or the dr. phils of the TV small screen who capitalize on losers and misery. even shows like american idol, which could potentially be good, seem to revel in the idea that many americans will say anything on camera, and then sign a waiver allowing it to be aired internationally.... and ad-nauseum/forever in syndication.

i guess the question is, why do we/they watch? perhaps we need to see folks more f'd up than we are to feel good about our own lives?

me, i dont watch much tv anymore... but i admit i get a laugh out of wwf for about 5 minutes a week while surfing the boring fair on korean cable... and i do like to see decent talent, but flavor flave? come on!

[Pligganease]

[RACETRAITOR]

[ajgeddes]

read the next one.

[ajgeddes]

[twg]

Yay, Steve is doing another Rush rant!

[Ya-ta Boy]

Stevieboy, aren't you the poster boy of degeneracy? It could be true. I don't know what you wrote because your post was longer than 2 lines.

[Anyong Bluth]

[SPINOZA]

I beg to differ I'm afraid, TWG.....I thought Steve's OP was reasonable.

And he made no mention of the shocking child obesity case in Britain recently, thanks to an entirely junk food diet.

Here: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/26/obese.child.reut/index.html

Mother says he "spits out" fruit and vegetables.

Such subhuman feces ought to be stripped, shaven, sterilized and abandoned to the deepest, most disgusting basement underneath the farthest pit of Tartarus. The image of vermin hanging on the end of a noose, of devastating and murderous blows.....it makes me grunt with satisfaction.

[Bramble]

You guys watch too much TV.