When it comes to cursing I love Charles Murray’s advice from Curmudgeon’s Guide which isn’t to ban it but instead to use it judiciously. That way each curse word when used still retainsR-Rated adults only impact w/out turning into Wolf of Wall Street ~400 fucks in a 3 hour movie
I also wonder how much uncomfortability of casual profanity on say something like the Joe Rohan podcast is due to imprinting for decades getting used to Broadcast Standards aka the censorship prior to the modern Internet era. Broadcast TV in the 90’s was FUCKING HUGE. Hence…
The cultural impact say never saying fuck on network TV or never showing a breast, same goes for the 1 F-bomb “limit” MPAA ratings PG-13 movies which virtually never show even brief topless female nudity as PG and PG-13 movies of the 1970’s-1980’s used to routinely do. All…
These things accumulate form lens through which culture perceives itself as well as how outsiders perceive it. It’s also an instance of politics being upstream from culture because all “voluntary” censorship after SCOTUS rendered de jure Hayes Code Unconstitutional was still…
Maintained on TV under a different bullshit set of SCOTUS rulings regarding Free Speech. Tl;dr whenever a pop culture industry fears government censorship they’ll self impose “standards” that amount to de facto censorship. Comics, Video Games, Music, Animé, endless list…
My overarching point is that the downstream effects of always subtly subconsciously associating getting a head blown off as being PG-13 and saying fuck once in 90 minutes being somehow more offensive than seeing nice tiddies for a few seconds and saying F-word 4 times in 90 min…
The subtle long term psychological effects on the masses is unknown but I suspect it isn’t good. Japanese government censorship of hentai anime blurring out genitalia even hard drawn animated pictures does absolutely fuck all to “tone down” content in question. #HentaiFridays
Considering how repressed Japanese soul is by nature, layer on Post-WWII Nuclear bombing trauma, considering over 1/3rd of Japanese men are virgins into their 30’s something West with America leading is now trying to emulate, trying to censor anime is rubbing salt in the wound…
And seeing how decades later how starkly different media itself had become will make this cultural bifurcation even stranger. In the same way that IIRC Brady Bunch was a happy go lucky 60’s-70’s sitcom while something like say Step By Step was a raunchier 90’s version of that…
Trying to see modern day version would undoubtedly be Woke shitshow to the point where while Brady Bunch and Step By Step at least could’ve recognized each other, current day mutation of what passes 4 entertainment is something out of a dystopian 90’s sci-fi flick Demolition Man
And since things like pop culture from comic books, video games, movies, music, TV, art, etc. all formulate a fabric of culture for given place and time, homogenization of global culture ran smack dab into the massive bifurcation in attention 50+ million YouTube channels etc….
So now online cultural enclaves are rapidly becoming ever smaller due to sheer scaling laws on top of artificial electronic political censorship by Big Tech which we now know as being entirely 100% Unconstitutional Government censorship. Those cultural touchstones served to…
Anchor and give a shared cultural touchstone for a people. As silly as it sounds, yes watching Seinfeld on one of the network channels and talking about the jokes the next day in a physical office around a physical water cooler is all an experience that’s become alien in 2023…
But in the 1990’s and even into the mid-late 2000’s this was still the case and the American culture hadn’t fully fractured due to the Internet just yet. iPhone, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, they all changed that in a massive way. iPhones sparked the smartphone revolution…
In a way that BlackBerry never could and from 2007 onwards, also with the nascent launch of Netflix streaming as their DVD by mail service was still huge back then, Facebook driving app usage communitybformstion around pop culture, Twitter becoming a real time free for all…
The broader culture has become torn to the point where one generations social mores for things as simple as the level of profanity and decorum surrounding a several hour long form interview is radically different from the next generation to the point of being a different…
Culture and country entirely. Reminded of this book title. We’ll get through next 3-5 years and it’ll be scary as fuck but WHO we are as a people after the fact? I have no fucking clue. It’s gonna be the ultimate Darwin Awards and the ultimate mass unplugging from the Matrix. 
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