The 70’s classic Deep Throat brought explicit sexual content out of the rancid basement Times Square underbelly and into the rancid above ground Times Square cineplex. The film grossed between $300-$600 million depending on your source on a nothing budget making it perhaps the most profitable film of all time. Someone made a lot of money….but I promise you it was none of the “talent” on screen.
We are 2 generations deep into young impressionable minds exposed to graphic violence through actual war and popular video games that have no moral conscience that in fact, reward the most aberrant ‘in game’ choices (GTA for example)
I wish your analysis wasn’t so spot on but…
It’s a hard one, I believe in Free Speech as well but there was a time that the most obvious, obnoxious and offensive abuses of that privilege were met w/ a Tsunami of beautifully articulated counters that could actually ‘Shame’ that filth back into the infected recesses it oozed out of.
I think we live in a time when the purveyors of said filth control the societal ‘tone’ and that’s sad and bleak. Your willingness to shine a light on it gives me hope! Thank You!
We are 2 generations deep into young impressionable minds exposed to graphic violence through actual war and popular video games that have no moral conscience that in fact, reward the most aberrant ‘in game’ choices (GTA for example)
I wish your analysis wasn’t so spot on but…
It’s a hard one, I believe in Free Speech as well but there was a time that the most obvious, obnoxious and offensive abuses of that privilege were met w/ a Tsunami of beautifully articulated counters that could actually ‘Shame’ that filth back into the infected recesses it oozed out of.
I think we live in a time when the purveyors of said filth control the societal ‘tone’ and that’s sad and bleak. Your willingness to shine a light on it gives me hope! Thank You!
Fantastic article. Arguably the Diamond amongst Rubies. But you know what’s amazing? The Supreme Court could not define pornography, but JM3 can!