VIOLENT, DENIGRATING AND OFFENSIVE
walter
There was a time when television was cool, and by cool I mean that its programming was adjusted and tailored to the demand of the audience and gave the viewer what they wanted to see, unlike now where is governed by "principles", " values" and "political correctness". Back in the day the north star was "freedom", but apparently we have consumed too much, and now the apparent trend is "prohibit". The reasons for this are left to the reader's choice.
I say this because in "the first world", right now, programs like these are unthinkable: Violent, denigrating and offensive.
I have grown up with these programs and, okay, I ended up managing an online M4G4ZIN3 for 4DULT5, but these shows are the representation of a generation that has not let the "welfare line" go down. It may not have risen exorbitantly, but we have not stopped being good people by watching this type of programs. We do not live in a "decadence of the West" kind of society. On the contrary, we are more socially aware than ever, more respectful to others than ever and we are less macho, less xenophobic and less homophobic than our ancestors, no matter how much certain groups insist on affirming the contrary.
You mght be wondering, what's the point of me bringing all of this shit up?
Well, it happens that the University of Northampton (United Kingdom) has issued a statement warning that some students may feel offended or upset by reading the novel "1984" by George Orwell (They have also put "Endgame" in the sack by Samuel Beckett, Alan Moore and David Lloyd's "V for Vendetta" and Jeanette Winterson's "Sexing The Cherry").
Orwell's work deals with the essence of the totalitarian state, which pursues the unique thought, manipulates information and monitors and represses its citizens.
1984 introduced concepts in our vocabulary such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police" and "Newspeak".
Students taking the course "Identity Under Construction" have been warned that the course "addresses challenging issues related to violence, gender, sexuality, class, race, abuse, sexual abuse, political ideas and offensive language" and, there is a certain irony in that students today receive warnings about reading 1984 precisely in spaces that are becoming a Big Brother and where Newspeak is practiced to diminish the value of critical thinking and cancel in this way to all those who do not conform to the "hegemonic discourse of the Party's totalitarian regime".
It is not society that is going to hell, it is its leaders who are dragging us into the abyss.
ALRNCN 2022.
Coin purse.