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Why has "conflict" (Jerry Springer type) TV become so pervasive?

Posted: Feb 18, 2017

They also call it "reality" TV, and as so often happens, reality is beginning to imitate art.

This morning I was interested in watching a program about people who buy houses, renovate and flip them. What I got to watch was a very obviously ginned up, nasty, crude, continually vulgar fight among the different "partners" as to who would do what, what would be done, how it should be done, and virtually EVERY aspect of the renovation. These "partners" were shoving each other, cussing each other, busting up the work that another one had done with a sledgehammer...and it was painfully obvious what the real so-called "appeal" of the show was intended to be.

We have shows with women in families that can't get along, shows with engaged couples who get into fistfights, you name it, we've got it, and I'm not just sick of it, I'm sick about it. It's very hard these days to argue with anyone who believes that our society is sick, and to no small extent we have the entertainment industry to thank.

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I think this is very deliberate destruction of our social fabric. - Snuffing out the "shining light on the hill.&

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I don't recognize this place anymore.

Celebrity Apprentice was a catalyst - I quit watching TV

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except for news and selected series on PBS or streaming video. It became very ugly when the Tea Partiers came out with their awful insulting signs and things really went downhill.

I have noticed the same in a myriad of shows. - anon

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In your face vulgarity, needless sex and swearing that brings absolutely nothing to the integrity (not that there is any) to the show. That's the liberal way, unfortunately. There are few shows that I can stomach and those shows have been cancelled. Guess they didn't stoop low enough for the hegemony of viewers. Such shows are not funny, have no discernible point to them, do not educate, and the reality shows are all fake.

I don't care what anyone things/says, it is just a sign of our decaying society, gone down the toilet beginning with the destruction of the nuclear family.

Although Alinsky's plan was to pry children out of the family unit - I'm afraid we helped him a lot.

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After World War II, the pendulum of American social values swung from those of wartime patriotism, altruism and sacrifice to one of undisguised materialism and selfishness; everyone wanted to make up for the privations of the war, and Madison Avenue went into high gear with ads, commercials, etc.

The outcome was a sharp rise in two-income families with both mom and dad not only working full time, but also having little or nothing left when they weren't working to give to their children in the way of parenting.

Since the late 50's, in particular, our children have been raising themselves, and if they turned out to be the product of unskilled labor we shouldn't wonder.

By the time Alinsky came along, there wasn't much left in the way of "nuclear family forces" to resist the pull of others in the child's life, including many the child never knew such as the executives in the entertainment industry who cared for nothing except peddling trash. Others, sadly, were people who were given authority and responsibility toward children such as teachers, who should never have been permitted within a mile of any child.

To no small extent, we did this to ourselves.

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