A lot of boomer behavior and beliefs make sense when you realize this. A lot of them were raised by whatever garbage was on TV due to neglectful parents.

Do yourself a favor and watch an episode of one of these shows some time. MASH, Gilligans Island, the Andy Griffith Show, etc. Pure escapism. Simple black and white moralistic protestsnt values.

Now realize that when boomers reminisce about a time when “townspeople knew the local cop” that this never existed. They are literally just going off what they seen on the andy griffith show as a kid during their formative years.

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Gilligans Island […] Pure escapism. Simple black and white moralistic protestsnt values

    revisionist bullshit regarding a Marxist show? on my hexbear? more-likely-than-you-think

    At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan’s Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show’s creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan’s Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.

    https://letterboxd.com/film/the-gilligan-manifesto/

    • O__O [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      1 month ago

      So Gillian’s island was promoting communism along with Star Trek. Pretty cool, however 90%+ of boomer viewers didn’t get it and still became reactionary dickheads. 😞