Since: I would like to know what new forms of media were considered evil when you were growing up.
Even though I may be 19 I have grown through some of the whole: New forms of entertainment is bad. Such as:
Video Games: Not only are moral guardians like Jack Thompson quick to tell people that violent video games will make you violent. But psychologist are also thinking that excessive gaming is an addiction. Also the usual, games rot your brain, waste your time, etc.
Social media sites: Sites like facebook, twitter, myspace, are always under attack for making kids lose their social skills
Pokémon: Pokémon is said to teach the theory of evolution.
Harry Potter: Same thing as Pokémon but teaches witchcraft
I must be officially ancient. None of these things existed when I was growing up.
Y'know what we considered a social media site (although of course we didn't call it that)? The local coffee shop or lunch counter, where somebody would inevitably ask if anyone had read about _____ in the paper. An
argumentdiscussion would ensue, some would agree, some would disagree, maybe someone would flounce out in a huff, and much coffee and pie were consumed (using real dishes that were neither paper nor plastic
).
Dungeons &
Dragons.
And woe is us, we missed the
Kickstarter.
My grandmother happened to see the "Mazes & Monsters" movie and promptly freaked out over my RPG playing.
What finally persuaded her that I wasn't learning Evil Occult Powers was that I went outside, gathered some rose petals (the material component for the 1st level spell, Sleep, as used in the Dragonlance series), brought them to my grandmother, went through the motions of using them, and recited the words used whenever Raistlin cast that spell.
Guess what? My grandmother did not immediately go to sleep. I told her, "See - it didn't work. Nothing happened.
Nothing. It's just a
story."
So she shut up about that part of it, but still objected to my displaying my hardcover manuals on the bookshelf in the living room - where my clients could see them.
I still have those books, and am about to unpack them and put them back on the very same shelf they've sat on all these years. 'Cause I got invited into a PbP 1st ed. game a few days ago, and need to roll up and equip my character (magic-user, of course)!
I just bought DnD starter set.
The red boxed set?
I just remembered that music was evil. Especially rap music.
I remember the first time I dared play a Shaun Cassidy record, or listen to my Fame audio tapes. I was worried about whether or not my grandfather would be upset.
Well, he was. But not about those - it was my Oliver! soundtrack he didn't like. Seems Jack Wild's accent hurt his ears!
I think there was some kind of Dungeons and Dragons panic in the late eighties.
Yes, there was quite a bit of misinformation going around, and some quite innocent things got blown way out of proportion. A gaming store opened in Red Deer, and the owner told me one time about a little old lady who marched in and started telling him off about how he was going to hell, etc. and so on. I won't repeat what he said he told her, but he also made the point that if a person is going to flip out over a game, it could just as easily be over Monopoly as anything else.
