Now I am not one to complain but, really, must the BBC insult our intelligence with 'Trigger Warnings' on programmes? This series, 'Short History,' covers a wide range of historical events, some indeed featuring war and destruction, however, to offer the weedy wee lass informing us that 'This programme contains mentions of violence,' is more than insulting to the listener. These include programmes covering diverse people and events such as Winston Churchill, The Battle of Stalingrad, and Pompeii! Just imagine warning people the Battle of Stalingrad contains violence! How stupid are people today?
I am led to believe such warnings are offered in universities around the country just in case a student is frightened by what they may learn. What are they attending university for? How mentally inept are they not to understand what might be ahead of them? How stupid are universities that offer trigger warnings?
People of my age grew up with the second world war just behind us. We heard about it at school, we read about it in books and comics, we played war games everywhere, yet today students in their late teens and early twenties require trigger warnings? What sort of parents did these people have? Do they not read the media, listen to the radio, watch TV news? Yet they require trigger warnings to read about war and destruction?
Of course the people who produce this needlessly over dramatised series 'Real Dictators' also, another programme which offers those tedious warnings that violence is within, when talking about Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin! What is wrong with people today?
The dramatisation of those online tales reminds me of the dearth of interesting drama or plays available on tv today. As you know I no longer watch tv, the drama is merely soap operas with added guns and a few females stripping off, not much depth required. I recall in days of yore plays that would be too much for todays audience to comprehend. One featured two men sitting on a park bench talking. Boring? Not when it turns out one has come all the way from Mars. This does not make it boring. Another featured a man who's skin was turning to metal. Possibly this was a spoof on the 'A' Bomb fetish of the time, possibly the result of too much alcohol. There was the usual suffering women plays, the suffering women up north with a few mine disasters and funny accents, and by the 60s an occasional hard hitting play such as 'Cathy Come Home.' Hard hitting but made no difference.
The soap opera's were better then, there being only Coronation Street to speak off, while 'Z-Cars' gave us half an hour of imitation police, and the first real soap opera 'Emergency War 10.' They all appeared more realistic back then. Of course the war was featured often with all those Black & White films glorifying 'our boys,' though some considered 'The Army Game' closer to real life experience.
What did the US offer? 'Highway Patrol' and 'Lucille,' and later 'Star Trek.'
Me, I will stick to the football, it makes more sense.
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