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  My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one. |
| Note that I have a 13+ rating here, so I can discuss the topic at hand. (I did not choose the rating originally, but I wrote about a violent crime in my area that haunted all of us. The rating was placed on it my management. I just left it.)I will be referring to the entertainment industry as "Hollywood" in a very lose sense, not the actual place. OK, I did not coin the title of today's blog. I got it from Laura Ingraham, a news commentator. It just seems to fit. Hollywood has been getting more graphic and more violent as time passes. We are becoming desensitized to sexual crime, to abuse, to loose morals. No matter how hard a parent tries to protect their children from what's on TV or in the movies, all their friends know about it and talk about it at school, and even at church. These "things" are on the Internet and in the music. The kids watch and move with the music. Girls dress kind of slutty at an early age, not knowing any better. I've heard young boys talking filth around grown-ups like it's normal. So now, we are appalled as new charges are made almost daily about Hollywood moguls and actors. But if we think about it, all that darkness comes from somewhere. What is in the heart of the "artist" who thinks up this stuff, who produces it and directs it. Granted the actors and crew may be mere pawns seeking fame and fortune, so they do what they're told. But don't they get hardened by it after a while. When do they stop thinking of it as out of the norm? If they are busy dreaming up the violent and sadistic, maybe that's what they want or begin to want. Does filth come from a seedy, dark soul? As a writer, I don't want to be censored. There are times when we have to deal with the realities of life, and they sometimes include crime and sickness. So where do we draw the line? I know in many films, perversion is superfluous. We don't need to see masochism; we can take a hint. We don't need to see the face that a bullet has blown through (I saw that tonight from a two year old movie. It did not add to the reality. It was just nasty.)When does the artist have to repress his desire to thrill and excite? When does he or she have to stop pushing past the boundaries? Obviously, the objectification of women and the brashness on camera, and maybe in books, is coming home with a vengeance. People are losing their jobs. Many will go to jail. If this many people are speaking out, think how many are still holding their secrets.Even if Hollywood cleaned up its act just a little, the damage may have been done. When I was kid, porn consisted of pictures of women with bare chests. I remember the boys would sneak outside to look at the Sears catalog for pictures of women in undergarments. Now they can see more live in the grocery store, and see all on the Internet. Our culture has lost the sense of right and wrong. The idea of a faithful couple is a thing of the past. Ingrahm had two child and family therapists on her show. They both claim that they are seeing abnormal behavior in children as young as six. They don't know what normal relationships are. If they want something, they want it NOW. There is no patience, no reasoning. These children believe they have the right to demand and take what they want when they want it. So did these moguls of entertainment and business. As members of a creative community, we have to figure our part in setting things right for the next generation. We don't want even more people to experience what these victims coming forward have endured. We want freedom and must not be censored. But we must be responsible, too. |
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