QatzelOk wrote:Did you spend more time talking to your father, or more time interacting with commercial media?
In the 70s when you and I were kids, the average North American child watched 7 hours of TV per day. So commercial media had a lot of control over how young females (of our generation) would relate to males for the rest of their lives.
Ariel Dorfman touches on this a lot in "Para leer el pato Donald" where Dorfman notes the absence of a traditional father figure in "children-oriented" cartoons like Donald Duck.
Why does mafia media want to castrate the male figure in its media? Is this a way of "dis-arming" the family by making the females unsupportive of their male siblings and parents?
Yes, this is exactly what it is, and it is why a society that lets mafia control its media is doomed to social disintegration. Like fatherless kids because divorce is practically universal in a male-hating world of media zombies.
That your father was involved in your upbringing doesn't change this social phenomenom at all.
MLK's "dream" was destroyed by generation after generation of fatherless families, and socially-disenfranchised sons.
Way more talking with my father. If you knew him personally it would make sense.
Ay Q. you see the limitations of talking on a public forum about private family relationships eh?
Any parent that allows their child to see over seven hours a day of TV is not a parent who is paying attention to their child's mental or emotional health.
I lived in sunny climates most of my growing up years Q. Denver was the coldest I lived in and I spent many of those years studying or working long hours. TV time was limited. I was too cheap to pay for cable. So all of it was kind of a nonissue in my apartment.
I am not your average anything in most instances anyway Q.
I think the culprit of why they are undermining the father figures in the nuclear family Q might be that in order to control what kinds of messages your family receives you need to undermine the authority figure in the home. At least the traditionally cut out paternal figure The one that sets the rules per se. So the father as seen as the one that might compete for rules in a household?
I happen to think that the deterioration of family relationships has to do with wanting both adults to produce for capitalist society. Women are paid less than men in general for the same work. If you can get women's labor on the cheap? You make more profit. Men making enough on one salary for an entire family to live on? Is not an advantage for capitalist production modes.
So you have to interfere and intervene. Men should not have much of a say in their own homes. It should be a decision made by women and men who want to CONSUME. Consume like there is no tomorrow. Living off the land and being thrifty and spending a lot of face time with your kids doesn't leave a lot of control of life for the mafia media as you say.
Q, I have no idea really how you grew up day to day.
All I have is what I have read from you over the years as indicators. Small things and words chosen and sentences written. Over time, it paints a picture of who you are Q. Only for those that listen and love words and how they express the mind of the people writing the sentences. You have a very distinct and defined style. You also are used to repudiation and being rejected and so on. You remain very solid in your definitions of life. I will not say more. Because I do not want to be prying anyway.
Ariel Dorfman's books my mother had in her home. We often talked about a lot of different authors.
I rarely want to watch anything anymore. I prefer writing my opinions here.
If I did not find it a nice activity I would not participate eh?
I think I caught a cold and it is a lot of violent coughing. I am going to have to lie down a bit today. And drink some ginger and lemon tea.