Narcissism, Disintegration, Suicidality & the Fall of the West: Part IV: “… our culture routinely overstimulates our children, which is a factor in such disparate problems as hyperactivity, precocious sexual behavior, and the sexualization of relationships … “
Lately I seem to post such broken-hearted things.
Or perhaps they are maps … but what do I know, really, of the future.
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a philanthropic group that studies health care, has shown that sexual content was spotted in more than 3,800 scenes on 1,100 television shows; up from about 1,900 in 1998 … 70 percent of all shows included some sexual content, averaging about five sex scenes per hour.
Five sex scenes an hour. Children need crap like this? During their one and only chance at an extended period of imaginative innocence?
This is how we rob them.
There is something precious to give children that I suppose cannot be given by those who have lost the thread, who participate in the cheapness of pop culture, with gusto. In the leveling of almost everything.
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That’s sad Zo, so very very sad. Nothing is left to the imagination anymore. I guess that makes for good cubicle workers in any case. At 60 years of age I can say that, regarding sex, as a kid I was clueless and used to peruse the Sears catalog, lingerie, undergarments – and wonder what was under those clothes :) It’s sad that kids today have lost that innocence.
Parents MUST either record and store age-appropriate programs for their children, monitor TV time, and and dole it out strictly. They won’t, though…not if they are finding much that’s to their own tastes in television these days. It’s almost axiomatic: if the parents can’t tell they, themselves, are watching garbage, they won’t be the kind of parents who follow wise television guidelines for their kids. Our typical network and cable viewing selection is another product of an unprincipled, market-driven culture. Call us Elitist Liberals…go ahead, make us proud.