The G-rated Culture - Resurrected And Transformed

[theboombody]

It looks like we're in a position today where you can have a "cool" image or a "good-guy" image, but not both. It's cool to be bad, and hokey to be good. That's our culture. As a result, we've moved far from the G-rated media we once knew. And no matter how much special interest groups (Christians in particular) have fought to bring the media back to a G-rated standing, the efforts have continued to fail over and over again.

I recommend a new, controversial method to re-establish the G-rating as once again prominent in our world. Simple to explain, difficult to execute. Basically, I want to eliminate the hokey image of the G-rating and make it cool by making it bad. I want to promote a kind of G-rated Shock Value, that has basically four rules. No profanity, violence, or sex. Those are the first three rules. The fourth rule is for it to be shocking, particularly in a bad or negative way, so that a dark side to the G-rating is clearly visible. This is a subtle method to lure people from R-rated viewing back to G-rated viewing. Once at that point, Christians can take over and turn people from darker G-rated material to lighter G-rated material. It's a two step process, and I want to be a part of it. Any thoughts on this process? Am I wrong for suggesting such a path?

 

[reba]

Lots of people who claim to be followers of Christ pay to see the trash .... The best thing is for Christians to not spend their $$$ on hollywood and the like.

 

[Kathi]

No movies for me anymore.I would not waist my money.

 

[Abishai100]

The recent social demand for comic book adapted television programs such as "Gotham" (Fox TV) and analagous Hollywood (USA) movies such as "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) has brought to question whether the youth-oriented comic book realm is conducive to mainstream entertainment.

Hollywood (USA) and national TV tend to dramatize stories in ways that highlight violence or crime. We live in a street-talk culture, but how can comic books, which are usually targeted to kids who seek a harmless fantasy literature world, be coordinated with our culture of loud entertainment?

I'm a born-again Christian and follower of Catholic rituals. I study the connections between culture and divinity, and one subject that intrigues me is the fabled Fountain of Youth, a supposed body of water sought after by early Americas explorers who believed that drinking from it could afford someone immortality.

I'd like to see connections between fantasy-oriented social folklore such as that of the Fountain of Youth and more accessible youth-oriented media such as comic book entertainment in discussions about movie/television ethics ratings.

Can we coordinate consumerism with philosophy?

 

[Eugene]

Hi Again Brother Abishai100, using philosophy you subject your study to the principles of being, knowledge, or conduct according to Dictionary.com. What concerning the fountain of youth in your opinion leads to any of these qualities?

Is your goal primarily to profit commercially using a new form of perpetuating the tales of folklore through comic books?

There is presently the publisher "Chick Publications" that uses comics to expound Biblical doctrines. This URL will give you an idea of such a ministry: some of their material is purposed for children, and other tracts are adult.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp

You wrote that you are a “follower of Catholic rituals.” May I ask why? I came out of the Catholic Church. There were major conflicts on these forums when Catholicism was allowed to be debated, and now is restricted to 1 on 1 debates only at the following Apologetics & Theology forum.
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