The Iron Yuppie
Thought[ful|less] coverage of news, politics, technology and anything else that catches my fancy.Wednesday, June 22, 2005
What Happened To The Hysteria?
Also, The Lead Singer of Judas Priest on Fresh Air
The lead singer of Judas Priest was an amazingly interesting interview! I had only be a fan to the degree that anyone who listened to popular music in the 80's was a fan, but it certainly made me much more interested in the band. But he had a great point which was only reinforced by today's Penny Arcade. Twenty years ago (scary how long ago it's been), rap music started to catch fire and people started to react negatively saying that kids would be destroyed by the horrible lyrics and society would be on a never ending spiral downward. And we are... having the lowest crime rate in ages. I think we can be fairly confident in saying that rap has no effect on crime. I was going to start this blog by saying "Why don't people take a position, then revisit the position later to see whether or not they were right", but it's absurd of me to ask. If they were right, then the speakers would be touting it all over the place. But people are remarkably bad at predicting the future.
Now people are up in arms about video games... give me a break. I promise... I PROMISE that whatever is predicted today will have very little (if any) correlation to what actually happens. Without fail, the outcomes are more moderate than anyone, on either side, ever predicts. Here's a hint... nothing we do when it comes to popular culture will be a dramatic change the world for positive or negative. Our societies are just not built that way.
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