tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18499463.post4456783672265703355..comments2023-10-31T11:37:50.028-04:00Comments on on life & other inconveniences: Political Values (Art & Censorship)Sandra Ruttanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06109584805469336742noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18499463.post-40697906558869237452008-05-29T15:26:00.000-04:002008-05-29T15:26:00.000-04:00The streetcar thing is interesting:http://en.wikip...The streetcar thing is interesting:<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy<BR/><BR/>Some of the 'further reading' is also interesting.<BR/><BR/>I wish the Canadian movie industry would just shut down. The same people have been making the same movies for thirty years.<BR/><BR/>Here's a stat: Last year the Ontario government invested $100 million in movies and was $3 million. They invested $3 million in the publishing industry and it earned $100 million.<BR/><BR/>Making movies is like making cars - it's too expensive an industry for us to be involved in. And I worked in the movie business for years, but it's just not cost efficient at all.John McFetridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442198820998606682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18499463.post-36521826603704511502008-05-28T21:16:00.000-04:002008-05-28T21:16:00.000-04:00I think I'm at the point where I realize there are...I think I'm at the point where I realize there are things I don't want to watch, but it doesn't make them wrong, or bad. We have these arguments all the time, about gratuitous violence and sex, and really, it comes down to the individual. It isn't something we can legislate, and it isn't something we should legislate.<BR/><BR/>It's amusing to think it's become a newsworthy issue.Sandra Ruttanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109584805469336742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18499463.post-66039251123556780012008-05-28T11:23:00.000-04:002008-05-28T11:23:00.000-04:00At age fifty-eight, I sometimes wonder if I'm a me...At age fifty-eight, I sometimes wonder if I'm a member of the wrong generation. Sex in films doesn't bother me. I've wondered for years why people worry about young people watching sex, but never seem to be bothered by them seeing the increasingly violence-laden movies(they don't bother me either).<BR/>I remember when growing up parents seemed worried about their precious babies hearing a hell or damn on TV. I said then that I heard more profanity every day at school than I got in a week on television.<BR/>Burying the kids head in the sand and hoping it will go away certainly doesn't prepare them for the real world they will be joining all to soon.<BR/>I don't advocate anything goes of course. But it seems that as soon as we become parents we forget what it was like to be kids going into puberty. Just telling children not engage in premarital sex never works.<BR/>If the "old" folks think it's bad, then it must be good. Back in the eighties when Tipper Gore led the drive to put warning labels on music, I knew it was a mistake. That made the kids want records that would probably have quickly passed into deserved obscurity without them.<BR/>Censors never seem to get that the more they protest the more people want to see what's causing all the fuss.Randy Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627907086811387527noreply@blogger.com