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.
Appreciate the nuanced point. I am not blaming the entertainment entirely, but it does play a role in demoralizing impressionable young minds. We can watch plenty of TV and movies for fun, but for many it becomes an unhealthy obsession that changes their life trajectories in negative ways.
Which is the goal of television programming that's controlled by Hollywood Cabals - to brainwash as many people as possible through mindbending, propaganda and manipulation.
For example - the very first Network Broadcast Television Station in the entire world was built in 1936, Berlin Germany, by guess who... That's right, good ol' Adolph and his crew of 20th century Progressive Socialists in the Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei aka the National Socialist German Workers Party, in English, or NAZI, for the TL;DR intellectually-lazy halwit crowd.
Are you naive? This is well known fact. Not only did the National Socialist German Workers Party invent Network Broadcast Television, they did so for the expressed purpose of delivering "propaganda", in the form of "entertainment", to all good citizens of the Third Reich! They were very proud of this technology and eagerly showed it off to the world during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. How do you watch television and not know this?
Moreover, your polite ignorance of propaganda, and how the television absolutely, without question, axiomatically, influences the Minds of all who watch, is the epitome of the kind of naiveté television is designed to exploit.
It's hard for most who use language to completely grasp the immutable axioms of Logic upon which all Language operates. The first axiom that causes most to experience the distress of cognitive dissonance is - Logic is not opinion/opinion is not Logic. Opinion is inherently fallacious of Logic. Opinion is moot-point response to Logic.
'Opinion is like an anus - everyone has one and they all stink.' That's not just a clever analogy - it's an axiom. Opinion is the domain of the idiotic and irrational. Opinion is the epitome of Fiction. The inherent congruence of Logic, is with axiomatic Logical certainty,, the epitome of Fact.
Entertainment/Art is Propaganda whether you agree or not.
Logic is not subject to your approval, or opinions.
Television is a Propaganda machine by design and the Entertainment Industry is the operator.
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.😁
The girl I dated during my late 20s that loved SATC. Her entire goal in life was to marry a rich guy so she didn’t have to work. She Didn’t want kids because “I couldn’t imagine spending that kind of money on someone other than myself” (yes she actually said that out loud). She was constantly in $10k credit card debt for shoes and clothes and always complained that I didn’t make enough money (I was making about $90k at the time).
I only dated her because she was hot, slutty and liked to get drunk and party. She eventually broke up with me because I didn’t take her to Hawaii for her birthday. She felt like she was entitled to a man that made $500k so she never had to work and could become a “stay at home dog mom”.
Last I checked she’s nearly 40, still unmarried, a bit overweight and with no kids. I hope she finds her $500k/year man! You know, one of those high status rich guys that’s into old, fat, infertile women and not hot 20 year olds 😂
Where have all the good men gone?!?!?! A generation of college students has had a 3:2 female:male ratio. Since women are hardwired to marry up, one-third college-educated women have a stark choice to make. Marry down, never marry, or go lesbian/trans. They will vote Dem forever because daddy government will take care of them...
GAWD. How I hated Sex And The City. I watched ONE episode years after it had stopped filming and I thought “ THIS? This tripe is what has captured the vapid imagination of my fellow human beings??” Gross.
Kim Cattrall was in Big Trouble in Little China. So there's that. Also appearing in BTILC is the one and only James Hong. One of the hardest working actors in the business, Mr. Hong is still working at age 94! He most recently appeared in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The More You Know!
Ha - I'm so tired all the time you can hardly see any white at all in my eyes. I could be both a sociopath and a drug addict and you'd never know.
Great article. No TV since 1996 and no McDonalds since 1992 when I saw that McDonalds truck driver come in and grab fries out of the bin with his dirty hands. All fast food stopped shortly afterwards. TV is fast food for the brain, and I can't afford to lose any more sense.
Outstanding and very very funny. Despite having been a fan of SATC back in the day, you are correct in saying it was setting the path for many current social ills. As a man, I was successfully able to delay having kids and act the adolescent for a long time, but many of my female contemporaries paid the price. SATC surely played some role in that, as modern feminism veered off the rails into chronically lying to women.
Never saw Entourage but did suffer through a couple seasons of the much hyped SATC with my wife who wanted to give it a go. She seemed to enjoy it and I kept my opinion to myself until one evening, to my surprise and great relief, in the middle of an episode she said “I can’t watch this crap anymore.” Apparently her Midwest sensibilities could no longer take it. I was thankful to no longer sit through an hour of teeth grinding.
Entourage, from what I heard from fans sounded like a celebrity frat party set in the entertainment industry. No thanks.
Yuri - a little piece of gold laid out for entertaining pleasure: thank you. Fun little serious dig at the scamming going on left right and up one orifices while drunk ... The personal stories with happy endings gave the shiny edge. Memes: sublime. Works of art. Tee shirt tidy. I say you could start putting cotton to those words on our chests and I’d be proud : gospel according to Yuri.
you have to admit. that Lincoln was awesome. I watched the show just to see that car with the aptly named "suicide doors". were are those "stars" now? Jeremy Piven was trashed later in the news. the others just faded.. Sex In The City? meh
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.
Appreciate the nuanced point. I am not blaming the entertainment entirely, but it does play a role in demoralizing impressionable young minds. We can watch plenty of TV and movies for fun, but for many it becomes an unhealthy obsession that changes their life trajectories in negative ways.
Which is the goal of television programming that's controlled by Hollywood Cabals - to brainwash as many people as possible through mindbending, propaganda and manipulation.
Yes, and if you’ll notice, it doesn’t change no matter which party is elected, because cabals control that too.
Lol... Truth is axiomatic. Opinion is moot-point.
For example - the very first Network Broadcast Television Station in the entire world was built in 1936, Berlin Germany, by guess who... That's right, good ol' Adolph and his crew of 20th century Progressive Socialists in the Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei aka the National Socialist German Workers Party, in English, or NAZI, for the TL;DR intellectually-lazy halwit crowd.
Are you naive? This is well known fact. Not only did the National Socialist German Workers Party invent Network Broadcast Television, they did so for the expressed purpose of delivering "propaganda", in the form of "entertainment", to all good citizens of the Third Reich! They were very proud of this technology and eagerly showed it off to the world during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. How do you watch television and not know this?
Moreover, your polite ignorance of propaganda, and how the television absolutely, without question, axiomatically, influences the Minds of all who watch, is the epitome of the kind of naiveté television is designed to exploit.
It's hard for most who use language to completely grasp the immutable axioms of Logic upon which all Language operates. The first axiom that causes most to experience the distress of cognitive dissonance is - Logic is not opinion/opinion is not Logic. Opinion is inherently fallacious of Logic. Opinion is moot-point response to Logic.
'Opinion is like an anus - everyone has one and they all stink.' That's not just a clever analogy - it's an axiom. Opinion is the domain of the idiotic and irrational. Opinion is the epitome of Fiction. The inherent congruence of Logic, is with axiomatic Logical certainty,, the epitome of Fact.
Entertainment/Art is Propaganda whether you agree or not.
Logic is not subject to your approval, or opinions.
Television is a Propaganda machine by design and the Entertainment Industry is the operator.
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.😁
I am always happy for people who find their peace and nurture life!
The girl I dated during my late 20s that loved SATC. Her entire goal in life was to marry a rich guy so she didn’t have to work. She Didn’t want kids because “I couldn’t imagine spending that kind of money on someone other than myself” (yes she actually said that out loud). She was constantly in $10k credit card debt for shoes and clothes and always complained that I didn’t make enough money (I was making about $90k at the time).
I only dated her because she was hot, slutty and liked to get drunk and party. She eventually broke up with me because I didn’t take her to Hawaii for her birthday. She felt like she was entitled to a man that made $500k so she never had to work and could become a “stay at home dog mom”.
Last I checked she’s nearly 40, still unmarried, a bit overweight and with no kids. I hope she finds her $500k/year man! You know, one of those high status rich guys that’s into old, fat, infertile women and not hot 20 year olds 😂
Where have all the good men gone?!?!?! A generation of college students has had a 3:2 female:male ratio. Since women are hardwired to marry up, one-third college-educated women have a stark choice to make. Marry down, never marry, or go lesbian/trans. They will vote Dem forever because daddy government will take care of them...
Last time I checked they got killed in endless wars.
GAWD. How I hated Sex And The City. I watched ONE episode years after it had stopped filming and I thought “ THIS? This tripe is what has captured the vapid imagination of my fellow human beings??” Gross.
Kim Cattrall was in Big Trouble in Little China. So there's that. Also appearing in BTILC is the one and only James Hong. One of the hardest working actors in the business, Mr. Hong is still working at age 94! He most recently appeared in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The More You Know!
Kim Cattrall was also in one of the best Star Trek movies and one of my childhood favorites, Mannequin.
Ha - I'm so tired all the time you can hardly see any white at all in my eyes. I could be both a sociopath and a drug addict and you'd never know.
Great article. No TV since 1996 and no McDonalds since 1992 when I saw that McDonalds truck driver come in and grab fries out of the bin with his dirty hands. All fast food stopped shortly afterwards. TV is fast food for the brain, and I can't afford to lose any more sense.
Outstanding and very very funny. Despite having been a fan of SATC back in the day, you are correct in saying it was setting the path for many current social ills. As a man, I was successfully able to delay having kids and act the adolescent for a long time, but many of my female contemporaries paid the price. SATC surely played some role in that, as modern feminism veered off the rails into chronically lying to women.
“There is a direct equine lineage from SJP to AOC”: this line and the corresponding photos made me ELL OH ELL. Great post! 👏🏽
I have never watched Sex in the City and never wanted to. Vapid lib/left loose women do not interest me. (Yes, I did edit myself there.)
Another fabulous Yuri read, always ahead of the game and VERY interesting.
The memes are awesome, must make the Commies in our midst squirm.
I Never watched either of these things. Now I’m glad I didn’t lol
They fit in well with the east and west coast dystopic shit holes formerly known as NY and LA.
Never saw Entourage but did suffer through a couple seasons of the much hyped SATC with my wife who wanted to give it a go. She seemed to enjoy it and I kept my opinion to myself until one evening, to my surprise and great relief, in the middle of an episode she said “I can’t watch this crap anymore.” Apparently her Midwest sensibilities could no longer take it. I was thankful to no longer sit through an hour of teeth grinding.
Entourage, from what I heard from fans sounded like a celebrity frat party set in the entertainment industry. No thanks.
Sarah Jessica Parker peaked in "LA Story"......
Yuri - a little piece of gold laid out for entertaining pleasure: thank you. Fun little serious dig at the scamming going on left right and up one orifices while drunk ... The personal stories with happy endings gave the shiny edge. Memes: sublime. Works of art. Tee shirt tidy. I say you could start putting cotton to those words on our chests and I’d be proud : gospel according to Yuri.
you have to admit. that Lincoln was awesome. I watched the show just to see that car with the aptly named "suicide doors". were are those "stars" now? Jeremy Piven was trashed later in the news. the others just faded.. Sex In The City? meh