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My two sons are grown - for whatever that experience was worth as far as helping to form this opinion. Instead, I think it comes from my study and research of the actual power of mass media upon our minds.
I do not think it is at all reasonable - given the multi-billion dollar motivation and behavior research, advertising, and media-influence budgets that are behind shaping the culture and therefore the consciousness of all of us, especially including the impressionable and peer-senstitive minds of children - to promulgate the idealistic myth that parents have some magical power to isolate their kids from the corrosive effects of mass-media culture by simply "being good parents" or by proactively attempting to work counter to the prevailing cultural and media influences. To think so is to my mind absolutely wishful thinking and an easy way to simply blame a couple of individuals at a time for the appallingly mindless, consumer-oriented, manipulated, and mind-numbed state of our citizens, society, culture, consciousness, and behavior.
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