Comic books are often blamed for societal failure. Comics
are the perfect excuse for a child's bad behavior. Comic books are often violent
and very influential. Kids these days look for role models and some of the role
models they find happen to be in comics. Parents also hate to place blame on
themselves for their children acting out. This is why they look towards comics
to blame. It seems like no one ever fesses up to any of their mistakes and
people look for a reason to cover them up. Comics cannot be continued to cover
up or mistakes. We need to start getting our acts together and realize we are
the ones who need to take responsibility for our actions. If society is that
influenced by comics we definitely have a major problem.
Why blame comics for societal failure? Society blamed comics for the societal failures because it was a fairly new industry, and as things seemed to go “wrong” they figured it must be comic books. When a child grew up during the war, his father was probably killing people and the military and his mother was probably making things in factories to help kill the opposition. The only things kids had to “babysit” them was comic books, and they read many different kinds. So when kids starting acting differently in this new generation the figured it must be the comic books. Society didn’t want to believe it may have been the internal and external scars war causes on the soldiers and their families. Also the fact that young unattended children are reading these comics may not be able to differentiate between fantasy and reality. When society fails it always needs a scapegoat then it was comic books next it was rock and roll. Society naturally resist change.
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