Gratitude for Freedom of Speech = December 15, 1791

Our USA Republic, when organizing our rights, had in mind the freedom of the senses, such as, the desire to empirically vote/choose, feel, see, smell, sound, hear, taste and grow (in) the World. This fact was further demonstrated by the Bill of Rights, dated December 15, 1791, today we celebrate that decision.

There was a compact called the Hays Code (http://www.und.edu/instruct/cjacobs/ProductionCode.htm) that stipulated values for the media. It was written around 1930 to govern the ethics of media, but one person's sense of “morally good” is unique, and by the 1960 it was replaced by the rating system, which is also variable in its trustworthiness. Still, I wonder how we will progress to more peaceable times with the current trajectory of media.

Let's predict and anticipate, let's manifest that as a culture we will shift our senses of delight and seek entertainment which is representative of integrity and smart for our time. Safe, legal, kind, environmentally considerate, exciting and maybe even mild (while still appreciating freedoms) can be that which we seek for spin, news and fiction.

Costumes, choreography, make-up, prosthetics, scripts, lighting, music direction, written agreements, insurance: things that support media can demonstrate peaceful, respectful relationships. Even the relationships with the audience. Securing ideas that are useful while abandoning crime, rudeness, terror, horror, sedition, deception, sarcasm, exploitation, which might in large part create an awareness where side-of-the-eye problem-solving that is a turn toward misery can be left behind in World culture. I think many people's hormones know what it is to catch a glimpse of something and go to an upsetting place when imagining what the truth could be, because of the paranoid ingrain of violent amusement. Suspicion, criminal behavior, sadness and fear are poor results of culture-consumption. However, a very reasonable excuse for liking make-believe-disturbance is because no one is really getting hurt, and participants have signed contracts of consent.

Who knows if the shift toward safe, maybe led-by-the-law legal depictions will present itself as supply and demand or demand and supply. Vote with your dollars and amplitudes, vote with your likes and hits. Vote with solidarity. Vote while noticing those things that are already available to you.

Binge on those items that serve your beliefs, support and live your values.

Some related entries on this blog include Freedom(s) of Speech January 20, 2015; December 15, 2014; Rated F August 30, 2013.