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Burninator · 04-18-2007, 10:43 AM

Interesting article at the first read. However after thinking about it there was a lot wrong with it. First off is that this person is a teenager who has no idea what the 1950's were like. I am young, do I know what the 50's were like? No. This person (and me) clearly has a biased view of the 50's family. It's the picked white fence family. White all American blonde family with the book smart daughter, quarter back son, good looking wife that tends to the house and the husband that works at the office and drives a Chevy. Everything is peachy, everyone gets along, oh except for the whole "black" thing, but we'll leave that out. I don't beleive that the fifties was this fairy tale of the family.

I am sure if this teenager was alive in the 50's he(she) would have thought America was going to hell in a hand basket, and the 1900's, well that's was when life was good and America was true Conservative. This is a great example of "grass is always greener on the other side" mentality. Or the stereotypical grump old man "back in my day we didn't have (insert societal problem), people were tough...and people had their place...and women were in the kitchen and..etc." So I am not buying that part of the argument.

I do agree that the video games, music and movies are not causing the problem, but are a representation of the society to some degree. But not to get hung up on the liberal/conservative argument too much, although the article seems to hinge on it. Why would conservative be safer? I am sure they are examples on both sides. But looking at the Scandinavian countries who are fairly liberal in comparison to North America, they seem to be doing fine. They have their problems, but in comparison, they must be smaller.

I truly think that American society is having a lot of problems. But the problems are made into catastrophes by the news and everyone else. They are hyped up beyond any reasonable point. Everything is dwelled upon to such a finite degree that problems seem to manufactured from all this. Just the culture of that I think is a large problem. My outsider perspective on American is that they have been told to be scared of everything. Everything is a war on (problem). The attitude seems reactionary at times, a reaction to the extremes.

04-18-2007, 10:43 AM	#25
Burninator Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2003 Exp:	Interesting article at the first read. However after thinking about it there was a lot wrong with it. First off is that this person is a teenager who has no idea what the 1950's were like. I am young, do I know what the 50's were like? No. This person (and me) clearly has a biased view of the 50's family. It's the picked white fence family. White all American blonde family with the book smart daughter, quarter back son, good looking wife that tends to the house and the husband that works at the office and drives a Chevy. Everything is peachy, everyone gets along, oh except for the whole "black" thing, but we'll leave that out. I don't beleive that the fifties was this fairy tale of the family. I am sure if this teenager was alive in the 50's he(she) would have thought America was going to hell in a hand basket, and the 1900's, well that's was when life was good and America was true Conservative. This is a great example of "grass is always greener on the other side" mentality. Or the stereotypical grump old man "back in my day we didn't have (insert societal problem), people were tough...and people had their place...and women were in the kitchen and..etc." So I am not buying that part of the argument. I do agree that the video games, music and movies are not causing the problem, but are a representation of the society to some degree. But not to get hung up on the liberal/conservative argument too much, although the article seems to hinge on it. Why would conservative be safer? I am sure they are examples on both sides. But looking at the Scandinavian countries who are fairly liberal in comparison to North America, they seem to be doing fine. They have their problems, but in comparison, they must be smaller. I truly think that American society is having a lot of problems. But the problems are made into catastrophes by the news and everyone else. They are hyped up beyond any reasonable point. Everything is dwelled upon to such a finite degree that problems seem to manufactured from all this. Just the culture of that I think is a large problem. My outsider perspective on American is that they have been told to be scared of everything. Everything is a war on (problem). The attitude seems reactionary at times, a reaction to the extremes.