Chapter 12

I think that there needs to be a fine line between education and culture. There are intertwined, of course. Students are brought to museums and the movies by their teachers but I do not think it is the purpose of the government of higher level education officials to promote overly censored products of culture. I am one to advocate for more exposure for kids, even if they hear a curse word out of their favorite celebrity. I think that kids need some sort of censorship, yes, but it is not the job of the movie industry to hide children from this and that. There is a lot to learn from movies, radios and comic books. The extent to which they censored these medias were overly ridiculous. I understand putting in the rating system for movies but controlling the content of books is just extreme, almost communist! Now kids see traumatizing ads that say, “don’t smoke” on the subways and big pictures of Simpson. Why isn’t anything being said about, because those people have too much money to mess with them. You can’t really change what culture wants its citizens to see, it will happen one way or another because images are not only physical images, they are ideas and notions and will permeate society. Trying to control this is just a lost cause and an unfair exercise of power.