Should comedians have boundaries?

[DarthMetalliCube]

the-pi-guy said:

Chrkeller said:

Maybe I'm just smarter than most.  I wouldn't go to a comedy show with a notebook so jot down life lessons.  

I didn't realize people couldn't disconnect reality from make believe.  

By default it makes no sense for someone to take a comedian seriously....  

DarthMetalliCube said:

You're conflating art and entertainment with real life. At the end of the day, this is still nothing more than the modern version of a moral panic (which almost always turn out to be false and misguided hysteria, whether the satanic panic of the 80s, PMRC of the 90s, the Jack Thompson video game violence scare of the 2000s, or the current hyper sensitivity against comedy). It makes the argument that art/entertainment = dangerous in some real life, tangible form. I strongly disagree with that, and I always will. 

How do you people think propaganda works? 

By this logic, there shouldn't be a such thing as propaganda whatsoever. Yet history, psychology, etc clearly show otherwise.  

Propaganda I equate far more to media - news outlets, editorials, etc. You can make the argument that there is propaganda in art and entertainment, but these fields have the burden of actually having to have some merit or value in order to succeed and be popular. They have to be compelling on some level or people won't pay them any mind and they'll wither away. If their messages are weak, stupid, shallow, or otherwise hold no water, 95% of the time they will never gain traction anyway. This is why the free market is so important. Not just a free market of business but also of ideas. And as is true in the business world, the best will rise while the weakest will fall.

Anyone who is influenced by art/entertainment to the extent that they commit a crime or even do bad in society were ALREADY screwed up on some level and were a ticking time bomb anyway. You'll never convince me that any source of art/entertainment is the cause for any real ills in society (other than reality/trash TV perhaps making people dumber lol).

Art is usually a reflection of society. Not the other way around.