You know how there isn’t enough sex and foul language on television? You know how if you go to Europe, there is plenty of it and usually it’s uncensored?
I’m sure you don’t really care about that sort of thing. Well, publicly at the very least. But I’m sure you are secretly wondering why you have to pay extra just to get some decent gratuitous nudity and/or excessive swearing. You are, after all, only human and human beings have an innate lust for that sort of thing. Sex, violence, and foul language are sometimes part of the human experience. If you lived 2000 years ago, you’d have attended gladiator games.
So in the United States, we have a bunch of moral busybodies running around telling us that this kind of filth (and it is filth, but sometimes you just don’t care) shouldn’t be on television, largely because these moral busybodies are too busy to keep their own children off the television. So you have to settle with a moderate amount of violence, implied sexuality, and words like “Hell”, “Damn”, and “Ass” instead of the juicier ones.
But I think you’re placing way too much blame on the moral busybodies. I say this because it isn’t the moral busybodies who are the ones who prevent sex, violence, and filthy language to be broadcasted on prime networks here in the United States; it’s the FCC.
We have a Federal government that is way too big. They focus on so many different and absurd aspects of our lives and this happens to be one of them. Why is it their business to regulate entertainment? To put it simply, it is because they are managing the “public” airways. On a side note, as a general rule of thumb, I usually substitute “public” with “government” when discussing these kinds of things because they are actually owned by the government and regulated by bureaucrats empowered by mandates from people we barely know but voted for all the same.
Because the Federal government owns all the frequencies and airways, they are allowed to do whatever they want with them. Why do you think they forced everyone to buy a DTV box if they weren’t using cable? Why do you think they don’t allow brief glimpses of nudity on prime time? It’s because they have had laws passed and now the bureaucrats are running in automated mode.
But I have an alternative solution to this that will save tax payer dollars and ensure a freer sense of entertainment. We should privatize the the airways and allow the entertainment industry to sell what they want to customers. While this may seem like a bad idea, it’s not because the customer will have more direct control over what they watch and the entertainment industry doesn’t have to expend resources monitoring it. In the end, the vote with the wallet is what really counts and there is a upper limit to what most people will accept on certain channels at certain times of the day. And let me tell you, network executives are more concerned with keeping your attention, then raising the attention of the government.
So I suggest that we sell off those frequencies and dismantle the FCC, which has outlived it’s mandate and is now currently seeking to expand itself even further into our Internet access. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not see my Internet costs go up either as the government starts to filter things for our own good. They do it in China and it’s so hard and expensive that Google has begun to pull the plug on them.
And if we manage to do this, you won’t have to wonder where all the sex, violence, and filthy language went. You’ll have even more choices than you do now at a cheaper price. That’s something worth fighting for in my book.
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