A reminder to stop hatewatching things
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The dichotomy of the censor, whether it's a Vatican censor looking for dirty books in the 1500s, or the Hayes Code guys or modern ratings dudes and the woke police, "How do you know there's a problem with it if you've never seen it?", which is pretty much the argument that can be used against something that is truly banned, like Song of the South.
The removal of the Hays Code allowed a torrent of subversive films fueling transvaluation which has brought us Cuties, and it will only get worse unless something similar is restored.
What was so much better about Hays vs. the MPAA? I remember hearing they had a lot of creative ways to get around it.
Hays had much more rigid standards explicitly laid out, such as an outright ban on all sexual content, and didn't allow much leniency even for content intended for adults. The MPAA rating system is rather arbitrary and allows almost anything for adult content, which inevitably enables the line of what is adult only material to move towards kids. While the Hays code would almost certainly have been subverted as well, it would have taken much longer and been more difficult.
In the country that had the Hays Code we got the Apollo Program, in the successor state that didn't have it we can barely build rockets at all.
People will always make this stuff, even with a phone in their garage; what matters is who watches it.
This is a matter of personal discipline. No one needs to watch movies, we especially don't need to watch new movies constantly, and we should never be watching movies that subvert the values that build and maintain our society.
Until we, as individuals and a people, reject constantly being fed entertaining lies, someone will continue to feed them to us.
This assumes the masses have far more agency than they do. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to convert people from prioritizing family and production to atomized hedonistic consumers. Rejecting the current situation as a people would look very similar to a Hays code for all media.
Okay so make it harder for them. Why enable the fuckery
(Mixed up things, nm.)
Because I watched a guy on youtube pick it apart for 5x the length of the actual movie.