11-14-2004, 04:27 PM
America has taken on a trend ever since 9/11..and that is to control what they see and hear...to control things that bother them..not on a deep social level, but on a more personal and subjective level. Comedy, movies, and many elements spurting from "moral issues" have come up ever since then..and continue to do so. So much, that most feel that these issues, not terrorism, determined this past election....where a lot of America turned to Bush wanting to be protected from these things.
After 9/11, the world became out of control and hurtful on a personal level, a lot of people sublimated feeling of powerlessness in a unassailable need to control what they see, hear, read, etc..and have gotten stuck on it. A personal bubble if you will. and in that bubble, they try to control and dictate what they feel is at issue. Most of middle america and south are god-fearing people who are on a more religious bent..and many have fled further into this during these troubled times as an escape or support, and used it to cushion their fears. I feel that this bubble/cushion that is more about moral controls became the issue, and that it was exercised to Bush in the election.
And in this clear atmosphere of appeasing "the masses" TV stations and companies are very quick to act to avoid being the focus of this sentiment and ire. The War/terror/whatever goes on to the world only cements this desire for a moral cushion and a more fleeing to god/controls on the population of America. This country has become more and more focused on this as a whole, and less on the actual outside objects. Its become an us vs them mentality. And the moral issues have made more of a polarization between gays vs them...which was on, brilliantly manipulated by Karl Rove, many of those middle and southern states agenda. Gay marriage bandies headlines, Janet Jacksons tit. This is what America voted on. They want controls, moral justice...b/c in the world at large there is none lately...so America is focused on its own house, the rules, behavior, and such. And TV, corporations, and the gov't is very quick to control these things to appease the sublimated fears of the bewildered population, still.
After 9/11, the world became out of control and hurtful on a personal level, a lot of people sublimated feeling of powerlessness in a unassailable need to control what they see, hear, read, etc..and have gotten stuck on it. A personal bubble if you will. and in that bubble, they try to control and dictate what they feel is at issue. Most of middle america and south are god-fearing people who are on a more religious bent..and many have fled further into this during these troubled times as an escape or support, and used it to cushion their fears. I feel that this bubble/cushion that is more about moral controls became the issue, and that it was exercised to Bush in the election.
And in this clear atmosphere of appeasing "the masses" TV stations and companies are very quick to act to avoid being the focus of this sentiment and ire. The War/terror/whatever goes on to the world only cements this desire for a moral cushion and a more fleeing to god/controls on the population of America. This country has become more and more focused on this as a whole, and less on the actual outside objects. Its become an us vs them mentality. And the moral issues have made more of a polarization between gays vs them...which was on, brilliantly manipulated by Karl Rove, many of those middle and southern states agenda. Gay marriage bandies headlines, Janet Jacksons tit. This is what America voted on. They want controls, moral justice...b/c in the world at large there is none lately...so America is focused on its own house, the rules, behavior, and such. And TV, corporations, and the gov't is very quick to control these things to appease the sublimated fears of the bewildered population, still.
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.
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