How Progressivism Ruined Both Television and America

[toobfreak]

Do you wonder why America is dying? The answer has been reflected in your own TV set for many years. When I was a kid, television was a testosterone-laden festival of guts, fierce action, big heroes, bold ideas and drama--- full of guns, violence, and big screen alpha males--- it was the epitome of unapologetic conservative values. Men were men and women were women and glad of it. The screen was full of the likes of:

• The Outer Limits
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Burke's Law
• Combat!
• The Rifleman
• The Wild Wild West
• 12 O'Clock High
• Mission: Impossible
• Rawhide and countless more. These were good times. Life was hard, full of scars, bad outcomes, villains, and morality lessons. It took courage to survive.

I contrast that to TV today. I saw an ad on TV the other day for a new show coming out this Fall and it appalled me. Progressivism was in full bloom. TV shows now are full of soft jelly narcissistic characters whose idea of a bad day is if their toaster goes on the blink or if the drapery cleaner cancels, and if their BMW broke down 15 miles outside the city limits and they couldn't get a cellphone signal, they would probably be dead within a day. They depend on their smartphone for everything from finding where they are going to searching YouTube to tell them how to plug in their blender. Here are a few select new offerings I picked of what's new for TV to contrast that to the above:

It is enough to make me want to puke. Is it any wonder our cities are corroding, our highways crumbling, and we cannot even fight much less win a war anymore.

 

[toobfreak]

That is not to say it was all about the boys. There were big gals in the 50s and 60s as well. Off the top of my head comes Honey West, I Dream of Jeannie, The Donna Reed Show, The Big Valley, Bewitched, and many others. Thing is, the TV of the 50s and 60s reflected a lifestyle and people who were strong, self-sufficient and could get it done whose characters were merely a vehicle about a morality play, whereas the shows of today reflect a people who have never really had it tough, they are dependent, vulnerable, and need technology and friends to get through life, with the stories really mostly being about themselves.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I look forward to the show named Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage which is set in the mid 1990s and premieres tonight.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I don't know them other new shows that are mentioned.

 

[toobfreak]

I look forward to the show named Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage

I guess that implies they intend to get divorced and remarried some other time.
I guess the idea of being married for life has flown out the window.

 

[playtime]

just an FYI, tooberdude ... remember the show

father knows best?

whilst that show was on the air showing the ideal traditional nuclear family... lauren chapin ( kitten anderson ) was being molested by her real father in real life.

oh about that wholsome ozzie & harriet show? yaaaaaaaaaaa, wellllllll....

in real life, she was a showgirl with tattoos & their son david married a playmate.

 

[playtime]

I guess that implies they intend to get divorced and remarried some other time.
I guess the idea of being married for life has flown out the window.

 

[Rambunctious]

I have Netflix.... Prime.... and the most expensive cable package my cable company offers and it is getting hard to find anything to watch...
Pro Sport hates me so I don't watch it anymore... the new shows suck... reruns suck... so I watch old movies and TV shows like Mayberry and golf.... and it costs too damn much... thinking about cancelling cable for TV... looking for a new option for streaming TV so I can cut the cable....

 

[IM2]

What the OP is talking about is the cause of why America is so dysfunctional today.

 

[flewism]

Do you wonder why America is dying? The answer has been reflected in your own TV set for many years. When I was a kid, television was a testosterone-laden festival of guts, fierce action, big heroes, bold ideas and drama--- full of guns, violence, and big screen alpha males--- it was the epitome of unapologetic conservative values. Men were men and women were women and glad of it. The screen was full of the likes of:

• The Outer Limits
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Burke's Law
• Combat!
• The Rifleman
• The Wild Wild West
• 12 O'Clock High
• Mission: Impossible
• Rawhide and countless more. These were good times. Life was hard, full of scars, bad outcomes, villains, and morality lessons. It took courage to survive.

I contrast that to TV today. I saw an ad on TV the other day for a new show coming out this Fall and it appalled me. Progressivism was in full bloom. TV shows now are full of soft jelly narcissistic characters whose idea of a bad day is if their toaster goes on the blink or if the drapery cleaner cancels, and if their BMW broke down 15 miles outside the city limits and they couldn't get a cellphone signal, they would probably be dead within a day. They depend on their smartphone for everything from finding where they are going to searching YouTube to tell them how to plug in their blender. Here are a few select new offerings I picked of what's new for TV to contrast that to the above:




It is enough to make me want to puke. Is it any wonder our cities are corroding, our highways crumbling, and we cannot even fight much less win a war anymore.

" When I was a kid, television was a testosterone-laden festival of guts, fierce action, big heroes, bold ideas and drama--- full of guns, violence, and big screen alpha males"

For the last few decades that has been in video games being played by our mentally unstable youth in the dark.

 

[playtime]

I have Netflix.... Prime.... and the most expensive cable package my cable company offers and it is getting hard to find anything to watch...
Pro Sport hates me so I don't watch it anymore... the new shows suck... reruns suck... so I watch old movies and TV shows like Mayberry and golf.... and it costs too damn much... thinking about cancelling cable for TV... looking for a new option for streaming TV so I can cut the cable....

get a ROKU, which is a one time purchase, then you can stream ala carte & then there are freebie channels like PLUTO & TUBI that show tons of movies & TV series

 

[Rambunctious]

get a ROKU, which is a one time purchase, then you can stream ala carte & then there are freebie channels like PLUTO & TUBI that show tons of movies & TV series

Yes thank you... I just got roku for all of my TV's I am going to return the cable boxes and remotes that alone will save me $42 per month.... and I can stream my cable package.... the main reason I keep my cable subscription is for High speed internet... I noticed vans driving around town offering high speed streaming and internet... looks like they are popular but I can't remember their name off hand...

 

[playtime]

Yes thank you... I just got roku for all of my TV's I am going to return the cable boxes and remotes that alone will save me $42 per month.... and I can stream my cable package.... the main reason I keep my cable subscription is for High speed internet... I noticed vans driving around town offering high speed streaming and internet... looks like they are popular but I can't remember their name off hand...

whatever you do, don't download the FSTV app for it ... your head will explode...

 

[toobfreak]

I have Netflix.... Prime.... and the most expensive cable package my cable company offers and it is getting hard to find anything to watch...
Pro Sport hates me so I don't watch it anymore... the new shows suck... reruns suck... so I watch old movies and TV shows like Mayberry and golf.... and it costs too damn much... thinking about cancelling cable for TV... looking for a new option for streaming TV so I can cut the cable....

I cut the cable around 2016. I saw the coming trend. What a waste to spend hundreds of dollars a month for TV, networks like HBO introduce maybe 2-4 new movies a month. I actually created my own "Netflix" years ago and have a hard drive system with about 1500 of the very best motion pictures, TV shows, sitcoms and documentaries ever made, all directory-accessible. I think I figured once it is enough that if I watched 8 hours a day, it would take me two years to get through all of it once. I usually fire it up in the Fall around holiday time and spend a lot of time revising all of the timeless classics. There is nothing new really worth watching anyway.

I have a 4K TV but never access the streaming services even though there are several that are free. But they make you sit through the commercials. I've also looked at buying a 4K UHD player but am still on the fence about it, whether it is really worth the money and trouble, as I would be re-buying stuff I already have available in my HD system, on Blu-Ray, DVD or laserdisc.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Abbott Elementary and Great British Baking show must make you absolutely flip out. Only Murders in the Building would give you a stroke.

 

[playtime]

Abbott Elementary and Great British Baking show must make you absolutely flip out. Only Murders in the Building would give you a stroke.

i LOVE abbott elementary!