Denying nature is not the same as being crass and subhuman just because at every turn, everyone swearing constantly and doing drugs. Basically just a least common denominator shit-culture that is incredibly pathetic. BBC used to be great 20 years ago, now it is simply cesspool of disgusting amorality and political propaganda - and worse of all, it's simply utter crap.
Monty Python was already doing over-the-top parodies of that, just watch their Flying Circus.
Not too long ago "dick" and a couple other words became common on US tv, and then not surprisingly it's become much more braindead since then.
Ironically, the word "dick" means just simply "thick" in German language.
I don't seek to eliminate them but previously it was contained so if you want to watch tv with kids that isn't some teletubbies crap you didn't have to constantly worry.
Interestingly it's always the
adults who hate the Teletubbies, not the children !
Plus there is a big push to include all kinds of gender, drug, and race issues that are a bit too adult for kids to be looking at (not to mention often propaganda oriented).
In German language, the word "propaganda" is to 90 % a "banned word", because it was used by the Nazis and it is forever linked with then because of that.Only in recent times younger generations don't look that much negatively onto that word.
I took some of my siblings family to see transformers. Some mild violence and cool cartoon stuff is what I expected to see. Instead I got some drug addled crap and all kinds of retardation they really didn't need to be seeing.
To be frank : I hated transformers even as a kid. I just don't know why. I just hated them. I rather liked those weird looking Star Wars creatures (I think the word "aliens" didn't have
that meaning then (late 70s, early 80s).
In europe the belief seems to run that americans are big prude
Yes, we Germans indeed believe so. At least as far as I know.
but ironically I think what we actually want is some real content and culture and not just a bunch of idiots flinging poo at the screen. I think R movie stuff is good too and I don't care about nudity much, but a lot of stuff that should have remained outside children's programming has crept in, and a lot of stuff on prime time tv is a lot more inappropriate for children than mere nudity would be. When you are trying to get kids to behave, language especially is something you don't want to see on tv.
We Germans are far more worried regarding violence, the reason why this is might be to be found here :
I totally agree - though I think it makes sense in the context of America … we are militarized to the point where cops/troops in full armor with guns up in front of an unarmed civilian with hands up is a 'meh' occurrence,
Military, and thus, violence, seems to be far more accepted in the U.S. as "means to solve problems", whereas we Europeans - and because of WWII especially we Germans are rather the Diplomats - who are often far too helpless in that role. How Serbia and the other countries in that war played with European Diplomarts was just shameful. I'm so much ashamed about the fact that Natioonalists were able to kill so many people the Europeans had to protect -
the Srebrenica Massacre was especially disturbing for any oned of us.
I felt like being personally (and represented by helpless, inactive politicians) tricked by bloodlusty nationalists. I have strong prejudices against the countries involved in that war since then.
Worst thing to me is being a sensitive person - meaning that I sense things most other people just don't sense. I constantly get the feeling as if I was living in an far too violent world, I must admit. It's just because I sense so much.
