What do you think is the most socially damaging documentary ever released - Excluding An Inconvenient Truth

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General Emílio Médici said:
The problem was that the response from the public was to eventually end the entire mental health system as it existed. You will see people blame Reagan for that but that is straight up a lie, Reagan only closed the final batch of asylums. Since the 1960s the tide was turning, starting with JFK (who had a particular bone to pick with the mental health people since they lobotomized his sister). The 1972 expose put it on the public sights, and Nixon, Ford and Carter all pushed to slowly shut it down.

The issue was that closing down the asylums didn't make the mentally ill disappear. They just started living in the streets or getting arrested.
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I've said in other threads and in real life that it wasn't just the presidents and governors closing the asylums for the most part, but the legislatures all cut budgets drastically to fund their pork projects and to buy votes via welfare and the courts and their rulings that people have a right to be crazy and can't be forced to get help against their will. It's just easier to blame the executive branches than say the entire system had a hand in the affair.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
Every fast food restaurant used to be a place of whimsy and joy. They had colorful mascots (with lore). They had ball pits. They had distinctive architecture. They were FUN. And then along comes McDonalds and suddenly it's too good for this shit and they want to be Starbucks, "ooh look at me I'm so SOPHISTICATED and COSMOPOLITAN." And it's like, shut the fuck up, you are the trashiest most basic bitch fast food chain out there. You don't fucking DESERVE to put on airs like that.
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Mac Tonight deserved better.
 
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Super size me And then you had the "Jared effect" on the other end of the spectrum McDonald's lost business big time after the doc and people flocked to Subway like crazy because the Jared claim of losing so much weight eating subs. I remember there was a huge backlash against McDonald's and they removed the supersize option. This lasted a few years and then people just forgot about the whole thing.
 
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Not a documentary, but Sex and the City was the most culturally damaging piece of media to millennial/gen x women. It convinced so many that being single, banging every mildly fuckable guy, living in a bug hive, getting shit faced drunk, acting loud/obnoxious/blunt/vulgar, having a high powered career, and consoomerism was the best way to live. People are starting to come around and realize that was an utter lie, but there was a good 25 year run there of women dropping soul fulfillment for bottomless hedonism in mass. I think someone could write a thesis about it being the most successful piece of propaganda of all time and how.

Sweetpeaa said:
Super size me And then you had the "Jared effect" on the other end of the spectrum McDonald's lost business big time after the doc
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Supersize me also brought on the streamlined boring ass McDonalds of today because its message was that advertising unhealthy food to children was wrong. So they took away all the colors and playplaces.
 
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The Serial.

Every NPR theater chick simped hard enough for that faggot that he got all kinds of sympathy from the courts there and I think he almost go out.
 
behavioral swamp thang said:
Not a documentary, but Sex and the City was the most culturally damaging piece of media to millennial/gen x women. It convinced so many that being single, banging every mildly fuckable guy, living in a bug hive, getting shit faced drunk, acting loud/obnoxious/blunt/vulgar, having a high powered career, and consoomerism was the best way to live. People are starting to come around and realize that was an utter lie, but there was a good 25 year run there of women dropping soul fulfillment for bottomless hedonism in mass. I think someone could write a thesis about it being the most successful piece of propaganda of all time and how.


Supersize me also brought on the streamlined boring ass McDonalds of today because its message was that advertising unhealthy food to children was wrong. So they took away all the colors and playplaces.
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I haven't seen a McDonald's play place in many, many years. Supersize me totally killed the spirit of McDonald's as a family and kid friendly fast food joint. Children were featured in the documentary with a nutritionist doing a voice over in a scene saying "It's making our children fat".
 
behavioral swamp thang said:
Supersize me also brought on the streamlined boring ass McDonalds of today because its message was that advertising unhealthy food to children was wrong. So they took away all the colors and playplaces.
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They still do commercial for kids with their toys. I don't even know how old McDonald's was unhealthy compared to other cheap alternatives. It's just an easy company to blame for bad parenting
 
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