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Suzanne Scacca's avatar

Just playing devil's advocate here... Isn't this more of a reflection on the people who need a TV show to help them figure out who they are and are easily influenced by media or others on how to live their lives?

I watched plenty of HBO shows back in the day and I didn't feel the need to label myself a Carrie vs. Samantha. Nor did I watch any of the crime dramas like Sopranos and feel like I needed to use violence to solve my problems. That's just me, but I'm sure there are plenty of others who watched SATC, Entourage, etc. and walked away from them with their individual personalities and life goals still intact. To us, it was entertainment, not a guidebook to living.

Perhaps the real issue at play is the people themselves. Is it any different from what we've witnessed these last few years? With the majority flocking to adopt whatever "pandemic" measures everyone else was using, to get themselves injected with an untested shot?

I suspect we're living in a time where the majority of people are raised to be weak, dependent, and empty... Just waiting for someone or something to tell them what to do next, where to go, who to be. Is it really fair to blame TV shows for that? It's like blaming video games like Grand Theft Auto for gun violence and school shootings.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Never watched the 1st show, which looked totally creepy to me; never heard of the other 2.

Never had children. Wanted to, but never met right man at right time. From grade schooI on, life inevitably took them away at 1st spark of interest. In hindsight, don't regret. My parents were a match made on hell. End of lineage on this case is a good thing. Dead stop to the cycle of violence.

And in the last 3 years, seeing the train wreck our country has become, I have never been happier to be childless & alone.

I don't have an apartment or a cat. I do have a paid for minifarm with 2 rescue ponies, 4 chickens, 10 mostly rescued budgies, a senegal parrot (who was a companion to a rescue) & 2 dogs (1 rescue, 1 not). Giving homes to unwanted, dumped critters gives me meaning & heals my inner unwanted self.

And, some years after a neighbor stole my barn cat, a shed full of beautiful green & gold garden snakes explains explains the recent lack of mice.😁

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