My my how far we’ve come!

Here’s a little something from the archives, 1949 to be precise. It’s a guide to the new era of “television” and what is and isn’t appropriate. Personally we love the fact that “Too-gay drinking” was severely frowned upon.

Interestingly enough right up until the early / mid 1970′s television was heavily censored and edited for fear of eroding and corrupting our perfect utopian society.

(This video of a 1950′s housewife dropping acid aside.)

Fast forward to the present days though and the views, opinions and the public’s moral compass have all certainly shifted. There’s minimal regulation on most major news networks, trash TV seems to be peddled to us at every opportunity – whether it’s crime, sex or drugs it’s all available without censorship.

At any given hour you can see burnt and charred bodies from various wars, watch CCTV footage of criminals being chased live by police or watch a documentary on any number of serial killers, complete with photos, courtroom and prison footage.

Raises the question, have we become more accepting of our nature and less repressed, or ominously more obsessed and enthralled with our own sense of chaos?

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