Societal Suicide for kiddies

[salinen]

It's difficult for the adult mind to attempt to comprehend all the crazy background noise following us around as we go about our lives. We understand that grown ups, especially grown ups on television and radio and in print, lie. In fact, to us the lies are armature and obvious. When our favorite silly RW pundit makes a cute song equating evil with (fill in the blank), or, mightily condemns certain groups for destroying the fabric of this culture, how do kids synthesize that noise? If I were 6 or 7 again, I might think that grown ups want to kill each other for having different ideas.

And now that there is only one idea being advertised, the RW fundamentalist Corpo/Industrial/Military/Anti-Liberal/Anti-gay/Evil doers/Bible interpreters/Go to the Mall variety being the good guys, are our children being programmed for a future that will only accept these tenants?

The language that is used for public consumption is, in my opinion, as simple as the English language can be used. There are no challenges presented, no choices of thought, only the tone that demands single line response. Repetitive instructions as one liners. Is the noise retarding young minds? They know the names Laci, Michael, Kobe, Clinton's penis, but have no ideas about Emerson, Chomsky, Crick, or Gandhi.

The compelling desire for young people to belong, as we recall from our days in junior high, is powerful. I hope that the next generation will understand that conforming to the current fashionable culture is not always in their interest.

[sasquatch]

1. Something all parents have to learn(and kids as well)

It's cool and very good for adulthood to be different. I like watching all these buzzcut hair/Nazi/Sheepass/Tatood/Tommy Hillfuck wearing jackasses at the gym. Some parents see their kids as a ambassador of them that they can do with what they want. So they yell at them when high school classifies them as a freak and they embrace that. So instead of letting the kid be happy and try to survive high school. They treat them like shit and reject them as well.

[salinen]

3. Then it seems that for the RW,

this experiment in hate is working like a charm.

[populistmom]

2. Not always

Some of us actively work against the mainstream indoctrination (but we're rowing uphill and it's stressful sometimes).

[salinen]

4. Pop Mom

I wish this community of hairless creatures would choose kindness over aggressiveness.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. kids are still kids

they dont watch the news, it's "boring"