I am not sure which is worse, the fact that common sense is no longer that common or the fact that we are raising an entire generation of individuals obsessed with so called gossip packaged as news. Regardless of the news channel or Internet news site buried in the headlines are "news stories" about who broke up with whom, who wore what, who is pregnant, who is fat, who is too thin, and of course all of these stories are teaching our youth to be more concerned with how they look or who they know. When did it become all that important to know what star is sleeping with whom? We wonder why our youth feel pressured into sex and relationships? That is an absolute no brainier ... we teach them through the shows we have on our television set to the so called news we watch and read. Our television sets seem to show case two main themes to our children .. sex and violence. Our sitcoms seem to think the only think that is funny is comments with sexual underlying messages and painting people to be stupid .. classic sitcom has the father being clueless and the mother being some kind of controlling ogre. I for one grew weary of the way that television was teaching my kids that this behavior was okay and actually cancelled cable. Seriously why should I pay over sixty dollars a month for so called entertainment when the people and the story lines in no reflected the values I wanted my children to learn. Really think about it .. shows have the stars obviously having relations with people they just meet (think Two and Half Men for instance) and by the next week will be in bed with someone new. Really?? Are we trying to teach our children to just have sex with whoever that this is normal. In my day we had a name for people who slept with a great deal of men or women .. and it was NOT a nice name. The beloved show Friends managed to have it's cast members have 85 sexual partners (though in truth that number only reflects the number of shown encounters, the actually number is higher if you consider the ones that were discussed) throughout the 236 episodes with many of those encounters being one night stands. What a great thing to pass on to our youth .. sleep around until you find something you want to stick with. The truth of the matter is we are dumbing down our kids, erasing the moral teachings, and showing them that we do not care about the real issues.
Our media is very short sited and is slowly lower our intelligence in 30 minute increments. Having entertainment in our lives is not necessarily a bad thing but when the quality of it is so incredibly low I have to wonder .. are we so mentally slow that we can not process anything except sex, violence, and bad puns? Now days people tune into the so called reality shows to catch glimpses of other peoples lives instead of living their own. They delight in the cat fights and the drunkard scenes of someones else's live derailing to somehow feel better about their own.
Social media has not helped the situation as now people spend hours glued to point and click games on Facebook to avoid actually moving from their computer screen. This may shock some of you but this is not helping the obesity issue or the dropping IQ of our children. We are supposed to be the greatest nation on earth. Yet in other countries they are teaching their children a foreign language from the beginning of their school career. Why we throw it at ours as an option in high school. We are sliding further behind on our own we do not need anyone to come take over but before I jump into a tangent concerning the public schools I will sign off for now and address that issue next time.
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