Cutting the cord and cultural cohesiveness

[Viki63]

My 21 year old son really likes Frank Sinatra. His favorite singer. Along with a bunch of people who I wouldn’t recognize, rappers or some such.

I remember Gunsmoke, Fulton Sheen, and the Ed Sullivan show, but it’s not a subject I ever discuss with contemporaries. We are bonded more over events like the moon landing, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, and the race riots like Selma.
Everyone should know who a few key figures were, but past that it scarcely matters. I mentioned Jack Paar (the Tonight Show '57 to '62) the other day, and was surprised when no one recognized the name. It’s like not knowing who Jay Letterman is. However, I never watch any of those shows, so it really doesn’t matter.

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[edwest2]

Unfortunately that’s getting harder to do. I’ve written multiple emails to Netflix and Hulu asking for greater control over what can be seen when I’m browsing for something to watch. Some of the images for shows and movies on there right now show nudity, graphic violence, same sex couples in bed and/or kissing, women in the throes of simulated sex, etc. We were at a park the other day and some song came over the loudspeakers. It had just about every vulgar word you could think of and the only one slightly bleeped was the F-word.

One good thing is that our daughters are getting older and more confident about themselves. They’re very strong in some of their beliefs and won’t tolerate things like abortion, championing or promoting same sex “marriage,” etc. I know it’s always different when they’re away from home, but at least when we’re around our two older girls are very committed to not watching stuff that is contrary to what we believe.

Yes, because those who like immorality want us to like it too by making it more and more easily accessible. If I’m at a stop light and profanity and immorality is coming from the car next to me, I roll up my car window. I don’t go to parks anymore or public beaches. I do go to certain places where people live normal lives - plant bushes, paint their porches, say hello to each other and kids behave. Yes, they exist and I rejoice that I’ve seen them. There are places where morality maters. Public morality.

Ed

 

[edwest2]

My 21 year old son really likes Frank Sinatra. His favorite singer. Along with a bunch of people who I wouldn’t recognize, rappers or some such.

I remember Gunsmoke, Fulton Sheen, and the Ed Sullivan show, but it’s not a subject I ever discuss with contemporaries. We are bonded more over events like the moon landing, the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, and the race riots like Selma.
Everyone should know who a few key figures were, but past that it scarcely matters. I mentioned Jack Paar (the Tonight Show '57 to '62) the other day, and was surprised when no one recognized the name. It’s like not knowing who Jay Letterman is. However, I never watch any of those shows, so it really doesn’t matter.

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All of that really matters to me because the lie is being spread that our society was “never like that.” It will always matter to me.

Ed

 

[Fusiontron]

Honestly I feel as Catholics the fact that there isn’t really a mainstream media anymore is a good thing. We will only become increasing counter-cultural and if there was a more uniform media experience I can guarantee you guys that we would not be represented or represented poorly. I also feel the same way about the Internet. For a lot of people they can’t meet a lot of other practicing Catholics in person but the Internet allows people to basically pick and choose whatever they want so it becomes easier to meet people with similar interests.

That’s just the way I feel about it but I don’t have children but if I did my view of technology would probably be more negative as just because I use technology appropriately a child needs to learn how to do that.