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[–]Hematomato 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Japan's media is wholesome, all right. Way, way too fucking wholesome. You want to experience toxic positivity, just put on Japanese TV for a couple days.

By the six hundredth time you've heard a woman squeal "OH, AMAZING! THIS IS SO GOOD!" you'll want to gouge out your own earballs.

They've got a culture where the population is literally going extinct because they won't fuck. Maybe not the true model for success, there.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

By the six hundred time you've heard a woman squeal "OH, AMAZING! THIS IS SO GOOD!"

This may depend on the context 😄

[–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Western culture used to be positive.

The banksters, and their media scumbags are sabotaging the west. People act out what they see on TV.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The problem is, when "Happy Days" was the top show on TV, and the network censors wouldn't even let Fonzi wear a leather jacket unless he had his motorcycle with him because otherwise he'd look too rough... the murder rate was almost 10 per 100K, twice of what it is now.

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:917/1*GguRMqOJCNWrTmsDXjH5lA.png

There's just no clear correlation between how heavily we censor the airwaves and how likely people are to harm each other.

[–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You're equating violence with tv?

Cars drove with leaded fuel back then. Tens of thousands of people were traumatized by murdering people in Vietnam.

There's certainly a correlation with media exposure and behavior.

If this wasn't a fact, then Commercials wouldn't exist.

Your example is absurd.

Propaganda is extremely effective.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Um, no, I'm not equating violence with TV. I'm doing the opposite: showing that violence doesn't correllate well with censorship.

It's true that corporations have been hopping on the bandwagon of social movements to try to see if they can squeeze a buck out of them, but they didn't create the social movements.

[–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure what you're trying to say in this reply.

It sounds like you're agreeing with my response.