I recently watched "Bone Tomahawk" and there was one scene in there that I thought could have given the movie and X rating based on the gore of the scene! If you've seen the movie, you know what I am talking about!! Now that said, I don't care what anybody chooses to make, I hate most of it anyway so "too far" was passed for me a long time ago (and it was not because of violence and gore, just recycled cliche BS)!! Like Michael Franti said decades ago with "The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy" song "Television, The Drug Of The Nation"
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Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh rather than abhor the horror
Next to Zappa's "I'm The Slime", this is the greatest song about TV ever written IMO (and the message of both of these songs can be applied to movies, social media, your phone, etc.)! If you have never heard that song, here are the full lyrics, enjoy!
"Television, The Drug Of The Nation" by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy (1992)
One Nation under God
has turned into
One Nation under the influence
of one drug
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T.V., its satellite links
our United States of unconsciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
the methadone metronome
Pumping out a 150 channels 24 hours a day
You can flip through all of them
And still there's nothing worth watching
T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting to close to. . .
The television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T.V. is
the stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
are chased by Grecian Formula'd bald eagles
T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special
It's the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to the fastfood culture
Where straight teeth in your mouth are more important
Than the words that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or will he not get elected on . . .
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T.V. is it the reflector
Or the director?
Does it imitate us
Or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's twelve years old
And we wonder how we've created a Jason generation
That learns to laugh rather than abhor the horror
T.V. is the place where armchair generals and quarterbacks
Can experience first hand the excitement of video warfare
As the theme song is sung in the background
Sugar sweet sitcoms that leave us with a bad actor taste
While pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
On television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
Back again, "New and Improved",
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
Hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
Beer and car commericals
CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless"
"fresh frozen"
"light yet filling"
and "military intelligence" have become standard
T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
Like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own Army is now called "friendly fire"
T.V. is the place where the pursuit of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse that would create a cripple
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television . . .
