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I am amazed at how out of touch I am with most pop culture programs. Have I watched Survivor or Big Brother? No. Have I watched the Voice? Never. Have I watched Yellowstone? Nope. I'm so out of touch with what passes for modern "culture", that most of the people involved in these shows would get no recognition from me.
Most evenings, you'll find me going to sleep with Perry Mason playing in the background. Am I living in the past? No. I just find that old TV shows had a better production quality than the shows we make now. However, that doesn't mean all were good. There were way too many copycat shows on the air way back when, and most of the copycat shows were crap. I tend to filter out the crap and look for good shows.
Before getting addicted to YouTube videos, I watched the Western Channel constantly until I got bored by their limited selection of movies. I feasted on shows like Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive, and Bat Masterson. All of these had good writing and good performances. This doesn't mean that I limited myself to these shows. It was that the channel had predictable entertainment.
Sadly, with media consolidation, we're seeing fewer good shows being produced - especially news shows. Recently, we've seen CBS (now controlled by a billionaire's son) delete negative coverage of El Salvador's CECOT prison, as it would make our president look bad. But then, our corporate overlords don't care about law and order. They only care about control.
Fascism comes by first anesthetizing the public so that ignorance of important daily events takes place. Eventually, people ignore what happens when their neighbors are scooped up in a regime's pogroms. I am lucky NOT to be interested in pop culture, as I am not blind to what's going on in the USA. And that means I will be to leave the country I love for a safe haven if needed. Hopefully, this won't happen. But if it does, I will keep up writing from my unique point of view.
