Should Hollywood be renamed Hollyweed?

Question

Is the entertainment industry spewing filth and destroying culture? Is it opening new ways of thinking and bringing pleasure and enlightenment? Does it produce toxic waste or a fresh breezes that give millions hope and refreshment?

Answer 1

Hollywood and the entertainment industry have been responsible for producing some of the most inspiring works of art, and at the same time the most depraved. However, I don’t hold Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry culpable for the degradation of society. I am for personal responsibility. Ultimately, it is how impressionable a society is that will result in how it is swayed by art, even when that art form might be morally repugnant. A society that is groomed well, by a well-rounded education, will not look at even the vilest artistic expressions as things to emulate, but look at it as an example of human behavior to despise.

Let me give you an example. Many people who pontificate about morals constantly harp on about how Hollywood’s excesses in violence and graphic sexual exploitation, and how that has lead to waywardness of this society, and especially its youth. Yet how do these people explain the relative tranquility and low rate of serious crime in European countries, where censorship of the media, including violent and pornographic material, is even more lax than in the US? Clearly, if unfettered expressions of the lurid, macabre, gratuitously violent, and sexually explicit material could lead to the decline of civility in society, surely Europe, which openly allows such expressions with less restrictions than the United States, should be a cesspool of crime and delinquency. Yet, by far Europeans are more peaceable and less likely to violate the dignity of another human than people in America.

So what is the distinguishing factor? Three simple words – WELL ROUNDED EDUCATION. A population comprised of people well versed in all academic disciplines, who are taught to be contemplative, will not be susceptible to such suggestive material, no matter how superficially appealing.

If one wants to bring back decency to America, it can’t be done by attacking Hollywood, who, if they are expressing the disgusting and immoral, are merely reflecting the values of much of the predominate culture. We must work to fortify the minds and hearts of the people through well-rounded education – and that means more than just making them proficient in math and science, as is the current emphasis. That will only breed efficient automatons who are so impressionable that they can be made to do anything. No the emphasis must be on a WEL ROUNDED EDUCATION, which entails being well versed in the liberal arts and humanities. A contemplative and introspective individual cannot be easily brainwashed by visual titillation or the glorification of violence in the movies and TV.

Answer 2

You think the entertainment industry is filthy? It is technology-based. If you don't have a DVD player, a TV set, the world wide web, the entertainment can't do much to reach you. I find some entertainment you are referencing in fact to be quite pleasing. I am sure if you are seeking enlightenment, you would be better off seeking religion. Don't use entertainment artifacts as a source of knowledge.

Answer 3

Hollywood has helped to move this country along from deep seated racism to less deeply seated racism. The more incideous evils are based in the ignorance of old fashioned beliefs.

Answer 4

Probably more like Hollysnow. Most of the horrible things happening in this world have nothing to do with weed.

Answer 5

Hollyweed. A few good things come out of it, but very few things that are wholesome.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

No, it just skews farther and farther from reality every day.

Answer 8

I always heard it called "Hollywierd"

Answer 9

no hollyweed just sounds dumb