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June 09, 2005

Television

Every now and then I catch and advert on the radio for a TV show that sounds really interesting. I start wondering about the wisdom of having no television*. This program or that program sound pretty educational really. And after all, the kids are going to get exposed to the electronic baby-siter at school, when they visit friends and even at Granny's house. Maybe I should relent and install an antenna after all.

Every time I start thinking like that, I come across something like this:

Last week's notorious episode featured bald, nose-pierced housemate Michael flopping out his penis and rubbing it against the back of the head of an unsuspecting Gianna, who thought he was just massaging her shoulders. The other housemates seemed to think this borderline sexual assault was a great hoot.
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All this at 9.30pm, without a pixellated fig leaf in sight, while Big Brother's audience of kiddies watched - 33,720 children aged 12 and under and 85,070 children aged 13 to 17.
But that's fine by the Australian Broadcasting Authority, which oversees free-to-air television classification
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Children are becoming more worldly with every generation, and most parents want them to be socialised and part of mainstream culture, which is healthy for society. But at some point, once that mainstream culture becomes debased because its guardians cease to protect basic standards, you can see a time parents will start to withdraw their children.
It won't just be odd clusters of home-schoolers but whole new schools and communities which isolate themselves from the degraded mainstream, leaving the jungle to the apes, as it were, and starting afresh like survivalists.

Thank goodness we don't have television. I don't have to worry that my kids might have accidentally stumbled on grown adults participating in sexual assault on prime-time television.

[* We do have a television in the house - hooked up to a DVD player but not hooked up to an antenna - we can watch movies (on DVD or video) but we can't watch television.]

Posted by Ozguru at June 9, 2005 07:00 AM

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It is just another sad comment on the sick, demented society currently surrounding us. Where's that comet when you need one. It's time for another impromptu extinction, me thinks.* *with a few noteworthy exceptions, of course.

Posted by: Tig at June 10, 2005 08:37 AM

You might expect something like that if you had run out of programming - say there were several thousand channels or something but we only have 3 commercial and 2 government channels. I guess that means the channel is just socially irresponsible. The exceptions would have to include you and I...

Posted by: Ozguru at June 10, 2005 09:01 AM

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