When Words Don’t Work: Losing Our Common Tongue

Yesterday I saw a fascinating video clip. A young Generation Z woman was shown an episode of All in the Family, the 1970s sitcom built around the deliberate clash between an older, blunt, working-class worldview and the emerging progressivism of the time. Her reaction was not amusement, discomfort, or even distaste. She was appalled. Not by the writing or the acting, but by the existence of Archie Bunker himself. She insisted his attitudes were unacceptable, dangerous, and that he should have been punished, in fact, imprisoned, for his thoughts.

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I would religiously watch a show that is just a group of Gen Z kids watching All In The Family. Just mic them up and set up a few cameras