Saturday, March 21, 2015

Okay class, now lets all turn to a page from JOE'S DICTIONARY: Today's word for English and Grammar Class: Team Rocket Syndrome

Team Rocket Syndrome

noun, Psychology, Economics,  Television, Pop Culture
1. Moral role reversal, Good  becomes evil, evil becomes good. Cool turns into geeky, geeky is turned into good. Masculine becomes feminine. Righteousness is perverted and mocked in favor of shiftiness. Jesus becomes Hitler. Hitler becomes Jesus. Good is evil, evil is good. The fool  gets promoted to "hero", and the former heroes  get demoted and likened by way of PR, to villains and deviants.

2. Post 9-11 Era of TV, Where the moral context of TV shows encourages to treat the noble hero archetypes as villains in place of the deviants being villainized as they deserved to, pre-2002. Most prevalent in the American traditional media and Hollywood industry. Most notably In the United States West Coast at companies such as Viacom, Time Warner, Disney, and NBC Universal.


3. TV airwaves circa 2002-2012

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