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  1. The Values Resonance trope as used in popular culture. Some moral values just don't travel well. The attitudes of our society have changed, or the issue they ….

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      A page for describing Laconic: Values Resonance. An older...

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      A page for describing Quotes: Values Resonance. "A certain...

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    Perfect Blue's verydark satire on fame and celebrity culture gets only more relevant with every passing year, especially as the rise of the Internet has made stalking and obsessive fanbases practic...

    An issue of Mad Magazine from the 1970's satirizes the over-the-top and offensive personalities that people use while speaking on CB radios. Its commentary on anonymous personalities is eerily pred...
    Many themes of Howard the Duck still resonate today, especially those involving politics. Or the cult dedicated to censoring media, should bring to mind the ever-present Media Watchdogs.
    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home's message about environmental responsibility would make you think it was released today, but it was actually released in 1986. Likewise, we had The Lorax, Silent Runni...
    Much of the message of All Quiet on the Western Fronthas lasted well past the 1930's. Not every war film made during that period has aged as well.
    One war movie whose Aesops about the nature of war and politics that has also lasted long is Stanley Kubrick's 1957 war movie Paths of Glorywith Kirk Douglas.
    The message of The Day the Earth Stood Stillhas aged pretty well, even withstanding a remake of questionable quality.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four. As proof of how subjective this trope is, pretty much every successive administration eventually gets compared to Ingsoc by its opposition... which its supporters (who may hav...
    A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The message of the true meaning of Christmas being about how one spends their life, not their money, might be more relevant in these recessionary times more th...
    The quote above came from the classic The Twilight Zone episode about aliens who use good old-fashioned human prejudice and hysteria while they just watch and laugh. This was an allegory for the Re...
    Star Trek has managed to come up with many stories that are excellent examples of this trope. The famous Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was relevant duri...
    Blake's 7 predates both the Trek and B5 examples (and was a major influence on B5). Blake rebels against a totalitarian government that drugs its populace. He gets framed for paedophilia. Hell, the...
    The complete over-the-top racism and bigotry of Archie Bunker from All in The Familystill continues to find an audience who find it all too ridiculous all these years after the show went off the air.
    The Turtles' "Elenore." Meant as a snarky protest against the demand for more songs like "Happy Together," it satisfies the more Genre Savvywho like the thrill of being in love but accept that it m...
    The progressive folk-rock trilogy of concept albums by Jethro Tull, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch, respectively celebrate a return to nature and English folk traditions, the mode...
    The Five Man Electrical Band's I'm A Stranger Here is a Green Aesopfrom the sixties. Hearing it now, it's almost more applicable today than it was fifty years ago.
    This Calvin and Hobbes strip from 15 years ago concerning the economy may seems frighteningly accurate to the US's current[when?] economic situation.
    These three 1979 Garfieldcomics discussing the overuse of sex and violence in movies and tv shows are (a little sad to say) even more relevant today than they were more than three decades ago.

    Stan Freberg's 1958 radio play"Green Chri$tma$" with its attack on the commercialization of the holidays still happens to be relevant in modern times.

    Fake Values Resonance is a common theme for Urban Legends, examples from Snopes follows. Unless noted otherwise, these are false:

    A number of lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein, most spectacularly "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught".
    Othello. By William Shakespeare. For North American audiences, a lot of baggage was added by the use of Africans in larger-scale Atlantic slavery. But generally speaking, the play has a lot that re...
    The Clouds, by Aristophanes, mocks both conservative and left-wing Strawman Political types, with the former being portrayed as not using actual arguments, just saying "this is the way we've always...
    Chicago (both the stage musical and the film). Its view of the celebrity that comes from scandal seems to be getting more relevant every year.
  2. Values Resonance. Quotes • Headscratchers • Playing With • Useful Notes • Analysis • Image Links • Haiku • Laconic. Some moral values just don't travel well. The attitudes of the society have changed, or the issue they addressed has become obsolete. But others...like wine, only get better with age.

  3. Mr. Enter is a notorious far right chud who completely misunderstood Homer Badman's meaning, and was widely criticized for it. He was actually defending abusers and victim blaming the abused throughout that entire video, and used the above quote to cap it off. As such, this quote has no place in the Values RESONANCE page.

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