Supreme Court case tests FCC’s power to police TV indecency

[Gregorian]

8. Also, I've always believed that censorship was about protecting adults from being embarrassed.

And another thing, as you pointed out, children are not children, but small adults. Hell, I was teaching Staford medical interns how to interpret electrocardiograms when I was 16 years old.

That doesn't mean we don't need an educated and structured society. In fact it's just that very thing that will help us to transcend the muck we tend to stay in if we don't grow and expand.

The conservatives are no doubt pulling back toward the abyss of days gone by. What we need is to grow out of the fear that learning is difficult. We need to make learning enjoyable. Teach everything from art history to Calculus on tv. I've been watching engineering videos to catch up with having abandoned what I learned 20 years ago. It's surprising how little there is. Lots of crap, not much on Newton's laws.

It's as though we want to keep children as children. As if by growing up quickly they'll miss some kind of fun. There is no better fun than mature fun. And by mature I mean educated. High level.

I'll admit that I spent years getting high after graduating from high school. I started out good and went the wrong direction for reasons I'm only now understanding. But what i know now, thanks to the internet, is that there are groups having the most fun I've ever known. A keen kind of fun. The kind that the Daily Show staff must be having in their offices, creating those shows. That kind of fun takes a high level of education. Literacy, political, social.

Well, I've got the world's problems solved right here. I'm probably full of crap. But I think I know how to do it. Censoring is only like the drug war. It will ensure that we go backwards.