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When I was 15 years old, I decided that the Motion Picture Production Code was the answer to society’s problems. I boiled the moral decay in American culture in recent decades down to one thing: the bad influence of the entertainment industry. It all starts in Hollywood, so I pinpointed unwholesome films as the source of the corruption.
Society had standards of decency when the Production Code was law in Hollywood. Those standards fell by the wayside as the Code faltered and gave way to the ineffective rating system in place today. Replace the Code, I reasoned, and the standards which were once intrinsic in America would eventually return, at least to some degree. With this belief, I started the Pure Entertainment Preservation Society, a free WordPress blog I dubbed an “unofficial non-profit organization” dedicated to saving the arts in America….