I would come home from middle school and turn it on. Everybody did. It was a great time with a lot of great music. Shit, I put ACDC and Van Halen up there with my other heroes like Tesla.
Funny you posted this. I saw your other thread about gen x and the first thing that I thought of, as I was watching that video, was Mtv. Mtv was the first real widespread propaganda campaign attempt exclusively targeting teens by the globohomo goblins. It wasn't the music videos themselves, at first, it was all the little segments in between. Mtv News being the major one I remember pushing the liberal globohomo shit. Then there was Rock the Vote. And whatever the AIDS in Africa concert was about with like U2 and Madonna and the rest of the kike mouthpieces...LiveAID maybe? Then the music videos themselves started weaving the same garbage propaganda into them until nobody watched it anymore and they were reduced to using Jerry Springer style 'reality' shows.
Ultimately it seemed to be fairly ineffective near as I can tell. I know I didn't care about any of that shit, at least. Particularly not about gay apes dying of STDs in Africa. I do think Mtv gave them their first large scale trial run at brainwashing kids/teens though.
I bet they learned a lot from Mtv and what was effective and what wasn't when it came to influencing teenagers and attempts at hardwiring their brains to elicit a pavlovian response to certain stimuli. The internet in it's purest, initial form was pretty much immune to those things due to it's variety and openness. It was only when media outlets were finally able to consolidate and reduce the wide, wide, wild west to farmville and every two digit IQ mouthbreather and hordes of sheltered teenagers were given access to it that the propaganda really started working. Which pretty much coincides with the bulk of the millenial generation. Myspace was their Mtv and it only got worse from there.
It was a double-edged in hindsight, although, because we were independent we learned how to take the good, and dodge the bad. We were pretty smart for our ages. All I can say is this was the period of time that defined us, the era that turned us from boys to men, and from girls to women. It's easy to look back in time and second guess it all, but it's a different experience going through it. We, as a generation were tough, independent, and smart. We were excellent at knowing who was blowing smoke up our ass, and who we could trust. It was an Awesome time! If a time machine were ever built, I'd go back to the 80s, in a heartbeat!
Indeed. Consequences were a real thing. Life taught you to figure out the basic common sense stuff and quick. Go around talking shit about someone and it was an almost certainty you would have to back it up in a physical confrontation even if what you were saying was true. Now, there is no such consequence. Deranged, brainwashed mutants -who previously would have had that shit knocked out of them very early on- are free to slander and destroy people's lives from the comfort of mommies basement with no consequences at all. Now we seem to be three generations deep where the very idea of getting your ass physically beat down in front of everyone you know for unacceptable behavior is completely inconceivable. Physical consequences for faggotry and jewish behavior needs to make a comeback in a really big way.
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 16, 2024 00:02:31 ago (+1/-0)
I don't disagree!
I'll say it was even worse than that! Prolonged eye contact (Muggin'), caused more fights than almost anything else! I was a scrawny kid, but agile & freakishly strong, that got the SHIT beat out of him at home, early & often, but, I have to say it served me well! I got out of a few fights by nothing more than just showing up, and being toe to toe with some motherfucker that could have taken my fucking head off, I think it was a respect thing, the fact that I showed up, earned me cred. Although the rest of my scrapes, didn't end that peacefully. I lost about as many as I won...
Yep. We learned early not to fuck around unless we really wanted to find out. Win some; lose some. It sure was an efficient way of learning about threat assessment and situational awareness. Not to mention mutual respect.
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 15, 2024 22:23:05 ago (+1/-0)
This classic 1985 MTV promo features John Mellencamp, The Police, Ric Ocasek, Madonna, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Lionel Richie and Mick Jagger.
Ric was the lead singer of the Cars, One of my many favorites!
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[ - ] DeusExMachina 0 points 1 monthMar 15, 2024 23:22:14 ago (+0/-0)
Ultimately it seemed to be fairly ineffective near as I can tell. I know I didn't care about any of that shit, at least. Particularly not about gay apes dying of STDs in Africa. I do think Mtv gave them their first large scale trial run at brainwashing kids/teens though.
I bet they learned a lot from Mtv and what was effective and what wasn't when it came to influencing teenagers and attempts at hardwiring their brains to elicit a pavlovian response to certain stimuli. The internet in it's purest, initial form was pretty much immune to those things due to it's variety and openness. It was only when media outlets were finally able to consolidate and reduce the wide, wide, wild west to farmville and every two digit IQ mouthbreather and hordes of sheltered teenagers were given access to it that the propaganda really started working. Which pretty much coincides with the bulk of the millenial generation. Myspace was their Mtv and it only got worse from there.
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[ + ] iSnark
[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 16, 2024 00:02:31 ago (+1/-0)
I'll say it was even worse than that! Prolonged eye contact (Muggin'), caused more fights than almost anything else! I was a scrawny kid, but agile & freakishly strong, that got the SHIT beat out of him at home, early & often, but, I have to say it served me well! I got out of a few fights by nothing more than just showing up, and being toe to toe with some motherfucker that could have taken my fucking head off, I think it was a respect thing, the fact that I showed up, earned me cred. Although the rest of my scrapes, didn't end that peacefully. I lost about as many as I won...
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[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 15, 2024 22:23:05 ago (+1/-0)
Ric was the lead singer of the Cars, One of my many favorites!
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[ - ] Clubberlang 0 points 1 monthMar 15, 2024 21:15:03 ago (+0/-0)
Also...
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[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 1 monthMar 15, 2024 22:21:24 ago (+0/-0)
Is that Schwarzeneggers' voice in the second link?