The opening lines of Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” speak volumes:
“When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all/And my lack of education hasn’t hurt my none, I can read the writing on the wall…
Vance Packard, auhor of the classic expose on advertising, “The Hidden Persuadors” (1957) reported that some television commercials were taking swipes at parents. Winston cigarets (sic) was taking swipes at schoolteachers. For-profit TV began undermining morals and values since Day One because more money can be made with amoral behaviors.
My favorite shows have no commercials. I’ve mostly outgrown any desire to watch. If nothing on the tube suits me, I turn it off and watch the cat. The cat only manipulates me into giving her snacks. And the playful, mischievous antics of a cat are more laughable than anything on TV.
@OlongapojoeMany, I mean many, of those in the film industry, and likely TV as well, aren’t straight. They’re actors. And maybe that is a contributing factor, that they’ve had hide it so well. Who would have guessed that Rock Hudson, Errol Flynn, and seemingly countless other weren’t straight?
In high school there was a fellow, a year ahead of me, with the name, “Gaye.” And there’s author Gay Talese, now in his 80s. Chances are we won’t see that name for awhile.
Paige seems to have become a “prisoner of more.”