Editorial

Have We Lost our Way?

John E Johnson

Where are our role models now? Where are our values? We don’t have them, at all, anywhere. TV shows are about the undead and devil worship. Movies have horrid-looking monsters. Bad language is the rule rather than the exception. Crime is glamorized. Kids see villains rather than heroes, everywhere. At places where we should be talking to others, we are on our cell phones.

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John E. Johnson, Jr.

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. John E. Johnson, Jr. founded Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity in 1994, shortly after publishing a hardcopy book of the same title. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity until 2022. John has been involved in audio and video for more than 50 years, having built radio transmitters, amplifiers, turntables, and speakers from scratch. He was also one of the founders of the Northern California Audio Video Association, now The Bay Area Audio Society. John holds four university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and has published numerous scientific books, along with dozens of scientific articles on biomedical research topics as well as imaging technology. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of two medical/scientific journals for 20 years. John holds several patents, including one on high resolution image analysis and one on a surgical instrument. He has been affiliated with NASA, The National Institutes of Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Stanford Research Institute, and The University of California at Berkeley. He is President of the consulting firm Scientific Design and Information, Inc., which is based in Redwood City, California. John resides in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and multiple kitties! His daughter, Cynthia, who was an integral part of SECRETS for many years, resides in San Francisco.

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Arg says:

February 3, 2019 at 9:42 am

“Where are our role model now?” An overlooked mistake in the first sentence, really? Yes, we have lost our way - and our editors.
- John Johnson says:
  
  February 4, 2019 at 9:36 am
  
  Thanks for pointing out the typo. It has been corrected. The paragraph here is just a small part of the full editorial which you can see by clicking on the link below the paragraph.
Todd Sauve says:

February 11, 2019 at 4:50 am

Yes, our English speaking countries and every other type are going down the toilet with our complete lack of morals and decent role models. I don't know that it can be gotten back ...