March 31st 2009
Our Crumbling Civilization: Pirate Booty
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his post shall go un-illustrated for reasons that will soon become obvious. Also to become obvious: Higher education in America is on a possibly unstoppable downward spiral, with students who couldn’t care less and administrators who are perfectly content with that. From the SacBee:
A student group at the University of California, Davis, plans to show a hardcore pornographic movie in a campus lecture hall Thursday night.
The student run Entertainment Council announced on its Facebook page that it will be showing “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge,” a big-budget porn movie that combines computer-generated special effects with explicit sex scenes.
Student leaders for the group did not immediately return phone calls and e-mail messages.
Of course not. They’re cowards.
The movie has been showing on college campuses around the nation, including at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The company that distributes the movie, Digital Playground, of Van Nuys, has been giving it away for campus screenings.
Company spokesman Christopher Ruth said porn no longer has the stigma it once did, and campuses have been showing the $10 million porn movie for entertainment and educational purposes.
So if child porn someday has no stigma, we should just be cool with that? And even if Ruth’s statement is true, not having the stigma porn once had is not exactly a ringing endorsement.
UC Davis spokesman Andy Fell said the campus does not censor student events, performances or publications and had no plans to cancel the event.
Of course not. To censor something would require having to pretend you have values, and we can’t have that!
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