Carboys Desire wrote:
Huh?
Bankruptcy laws allow people a way out from their moral obligation to pay their debts. Far too many people take advantage of those laws. I've read of individuals who file bankruptcy 3 or 4 times.
Reality tv, rap music, and Paris Hilton are part of popular culture. Each of the three have elements that also contribute to moral decay and if you pretend to not understand that then perhaps you have already been affected--I don't know. These things do not affect me as I had my head screwed on straight (at least in my mind) and tight before these three things came into mass appeal. But I am very happy to not have to raise a child with these cultural influences.
At 44, am I just getting old? Maybe, but that's my opinion. Just as you think Bill Maher contributes to the problem, I think there are many more things that are worse contributors.
I have to assume you have the same moral outrage at corporate bankruptcy protection,which right now is much looser and easier to obtain than personal? And most personal bankruptcy is in fact caused by our lax corporate laws and regs...easy credit card with changing interest rates, mixing good mortgages with bad in CDOs so that the bad swamp the good, using out clauses in insurance policies to leave patients with huge health bills. Etc.
As for the rest, reality TV hurts no one as long as you see it for what it is: mindless entertainment tingled with a dash of social commentary. Rap music has been demonized today the way heavy metal was earlier (causing suicides and demonic worship anyone?), or the way frankly early rock was (mixing the races, OMG). Some of it is urban poetry, some of it is junk, some of it is just a good beat. Most people know the difference.
Paris? every generation has its blonde bimbo (Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Marilyn, Jayne Mansfield, Madonna in that stage.). So sad to say as a pale blonde by nature. SIGH.
Bill Maher is a funny, at times smart, comedian with some interesting spins on things, particularly religion. But George Carlin he ain't. Richard Pryor he ain't. Lenny Bruce, he ain't, Except in his own mind sometimes. and then he's not funny.
I have 2 young ones, too young yet. Knowledge and exposure is empowering , and parenting is not about isolating your kids or controlling everything they see read or hear. It's about working thru those things with them so they make the right choices.
