I've always felt the popularity of Friends and Seinfeld (and the copycats) killed marriage.
TV always showed dating as something kids did. When you show adults dating forever it creates a mentality that its normal to be in your 30s+ and still having relationships and "trying to find the one". In every other generation that would be seen as hopelessly past marriageable age. Even Gen Xers got hitched quicker. TV created all the "rules" of dating that people think of, like "three dates and then you have sex" or all the shit of male/female friendships, going "on a break", etc.
TV does this for drama and entertainment of course, but people see it at absorb the message whether they realize it or not. One of the most conservative guys I knew was still a raging Friends addict who constantly talked about the show like the characters were real people, like they were his friends.
It's funny you mention that because I was recently watching some YouTube channel (can't remember what) but it was basically some people discussing some rules of dating, and they mirrored all the talking points you just brought up, almost reflexively -- oh yeah, I remember now, it was some interviewer talking to Japanese on the street about dating and marriage. And funnily enough, because a lot of media mirrors the popularity of whatever the masses enjoy consuming (such as shows like Friends and Seinfeld) they exported those values to other developing nations.
Basically, Cultivation Theory is not a theory, it's a hard fact. And we're seeing the fruits of more than 80 years of propaganda having taken root at the base of every developed culture that isn't Islamic.
You proved the point. You were bamboozled by Jew fanfic about how great things were in the 90s as they insidiously trained you with proto woke values you still claim as good. No thanks
Hmm.
My wife still watches that show religiously and i think it's held up well. At the end of the show one couple does get permanently married. Ross does the real life Jew thing and gets married/divorced like 3 times. So that was realistic.
They kind of dunk on men acting gay or effeminate a few times. There's like one black person in the entire series. Chandler is humiliated by his crossdressing dad, and everyone gets instead of rainbow blasting him.
It still shows dating as something that goes on for over a decade and not a short step to starting your real life. And of course we get flagrant adoption propaganda and the end too.
I've always felt the popularity of Friends and Seinfeld (and the copycats) killed marriage.
TV always showed dating as something kids did. When you show adults dating forever it creates a mentality that its normal to be in your 30s+ and still having relationships and "trying to find the one". In every other generation that would be seen as hopelessly past marriageable age. Even Gen Xers got hitched quicker. TV created all the "rules" of dating that people think of, like "three dates and then you have sex" or all the shit of male/female friendships, going "on a break", etc.
TV does this for drama and entertainment of course, but people see it at absorb the message whether they realize it or not. One of the most conservative guys I knew was still a raging Friends addict who constantly talked about the show like the characters were real people, like they were his friends.
It's funny you mention that because I was recently watching some YouTube channel (can't remember what) but it was basically some people discussing some rules of dating, and they mirrored all the talking points you just brought up, almost reflexively -- oh yeah, I remember now, it was some interviewer talking to Japanese on the street about dating and marriage. And funnily enough, because a lot of media mirrors the popularity of whatever the masses enjoy consuming (such as shows like Friends and Seinfeld) they exported those values to other developing nations.
Basically, Cultivation Theory is not a theory, it's a hard fact. And we're seeing the fruits of more than 80 years of propaganda having taken root at the base of every developed culture that isn't Islamic.
You proved the point. You were bamboozled by Jew fanfic about how great things were in the 90s as they insidiously trained you with proto woke values you still claim as good. No thanks
Hmm. My wife still watches that show religiously and i think it's held up well. At the end of the show one couple does get permanently married. Ross does the real life Jew thing and gets married/divorced like 3 times. So that was realistic.
They kind of dunk on men acting gay or effeminate a few times. There's like one black person in the entire series. Chandler is humiliated by his crossdressing dad, and everyone gets instead of rainbow blasting him.
It still shows dating as something that goes on for over a decade and not a short step to starting your real life. And of course we get flagrant adoption propaganda and the end too.