Loose morals fuel show biz

The question I have about all of the recent allegations of sexual assault and impropriety is “Why did it take so long to get here?” The entertainment industry has constantly pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable to display to the public. It has become increasingly violent, sexualized, reprobate, and disgusting in the past five decades.

So what would people expect about the people who are behind the production of this content? Anyone opposed to this type of programming and the messages being sent has been called a prude, sexually repressed, or a Bible thumper for wanting some modicum of decency in public programming.

For years, progressive liberals, who dominate the entertainment industry and have pushed for indecent programming because “sex sells,” have created an atmosphere where those who gain positions of power and authority in the industry could exploit the vulnerable or those seeking to break into the industry. But the basic values of human decency, modesty, and morality were never something society could simply escape because it felt good. Such a descent into indecency was bound to have consequences.

Now I believe there are places for mature programming that reveals the darker side of humanity, but it is another matter to show mature programming that is gratuitous and driven by the baseness of those writing and producing the content.

Why are the people who found this type of behavior acceptable suddenly finding it unacceptable? Yes, I understand the reporting of the egregious actions of Harvey Weinstein caused a groundswell of women who finally felt empowered to tell their stories of sexual abuse in the entertainment industry.

But how has our society allowed the industry to gain such power on such a poor moral foundation in the first place?

As long as the moral foundation of the industry is based on the shifting sands of moral relativism, we will be visiting this space again before too long. Hilliard