so much swimming through my head right now, I hope I can make this make sense and have some interesting discussions around it.
For off, I will more than likely offend someone with some parts of MY OPINIONS.... just remember they are MY opinions. I've got nothing to back up anything except common sense... and that seems to a lost commodity now days. So here it goes.
I'm tired of teenagers shooting and killing other people.
If you're depressed because your life sucks, leave a note and go swallow some pills in the privacy of your own closet. Shooting others will NOT make you be remembered for anything - except as just another one of those messed up idiots who's name no one remembers a month later when the latest celebratey gets arrested. Don't take anyone else with you! that just proves you are stupid.
Where do kids get the idea that taking others lives is cool? Seriously? That idea HAD to be instilled by someone or something of some GROUP of things. I am pretty sure churches and parents are not teaching them that over the growth of their lives, and have SERIOUS DOUBTS if their friends are telling them. And they wouldn't listen to their enemies.... who would? So, WHERE does this idea come from? If any of you have a better answer than what I have listed below, please post up.
How about this: music, video games, tv, movies, posters, news, internet. Yes, fine lets blame the parents for not raising their kids right. Here's a truth: PARENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RAISE THEIR KIDS RIGHT. AND They spend much less time than the rest of the influences. FAR less. Still wonder where the idea to kill others comes from? I'm not.
Here's where I will offend some. There is a lot of very negative music out there. USUALLY, [not always, I said USUALLY] these killers are into the "negative sounding music". you know the stuff with really heavy non musical guitars and 200 BPM drummming while some guy screams obsecenities in a gruff distorted voice about killing his girlfriend and parents etc etc. I'm not saying that listening to a few of those songs makes you a killer.... I'm saying it doesn't help AND it adds up with everything else over a long period of time.
Never before in our history has SO MANY negative things been so available, and seen as so normal and acceptable. Think about it!
.... as children we come out and are fed soft pastel pinks and blues, our moms play classical music while we are in the womb - not death metal, we read fun colorful kids books, watch floofy rated G Disney movies, learn from bright cheery shows like Seasame Street, Electric Company, Zoom, Mr. Rogers, and are protected from crap TV, Movies, traffic, bad men inviting us into their cars for candy, ANYTHING bad or damaging to our tender little psychies. CHILDREN are pampered and protected from the hurtful world. Parents do this to help their kids have a good life. Most parents anyway. Then kids go to school and discover wonderful things as bullys, hate, drugs, pain, pressure, axiety, love frustrations, and are slowly indoctronated into a world from h311... and THIS becomes thier playground. WE ALL GO through this! It's part of life. The ones who adopt as their music and lifestyle depressing, negative stuff - CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT of that WILL wear you down... until you don't feel it anymore and don't know it is hurting you.
You are what you eat. Mentally.
It's not JUST music, or video games or movies, or other stuff, it is ALL OF IT AT ONCE adding up to a larger plate than should be eaten. Ever.
PROFILING.
We are smart people. We have computers and stats and projectors for graphs and spreadsheets, and there is a thing called "Profiling" the criminal investigators use that could determine which TYPE of person could be a pedophile or a killer or a tax evader etc etc etc... should we start profiling teenagers? THAT seems futile to me since ALL kids are pretty messed up until they reach adulthood. It seems like profiling would work, but should we do that? that doesn't make sense to me. But WE CHOOSE to allow all these negative influences - heck, we MAKE MONEY off of it - WE allow these things to be digested constantly by teens.... then they go shooting up malls, churches, schools, colleges, and we all scratch our heads and blame the parents? How about we blame ourselves for allowing all this glorified crap as "entertainment" to exist? I don't think we should BAN all forms of music and such, but maybe, just we SHOULD take some responsibility and take a look into it. We have ratings on Movies so 7 years olds can't go watch ****, we have ratings on some video games so 5 year olds can't point a virtual gun into thier friends face and pull the trigger creating an explosion of blood and flesh.... perhaps we SHOULD take a good look at what is influencing people or kids today?
I don't know what the answer is, but I think I know what the cause is.... strike that. I think the answer is KNOWING and DEALING with the cause.
Nobody wants to watch Seaseme Street when they are 20. Why not? hmmmmmmmm Would certainly be better than say, Saw I, II, III, IV wouldn't it? Not realistic right? Well, kids killing others is not realistic either. time to rethink that.
feedback?
For off, I will more than likely offend someone with some parts of MY OPINIONS.... just remember they are MY opinions. I've got nothing to back up anything except common sense... and that seems to a lost commodity now days. So here it goes.
I'm tired of teenagers shooting and killing other people.
If you're depressed because your life sucks, leave a note and go swallow some pills in the privacy of your own closet. Shooting others will NOT make you be remembered for anything - except as just another one of those messed up idiots who's name no one remembers a month later when the latest celebratey gets arrested. Don't take anyone else with you! that just proves you are stupid.
Where do kids get the idea that taking others lives is cool? Seriously? That idea HAD to be instilled by someone or something of some GROUP of things. I am pretty sure churches and parents are not teaching them that over the growth of their lives, and have SERIOUS DOUBTS if their friends are telling them. And they wouldn't listen to their enemies.... who would? So, WHERE does this idea come from? If any of you have a better answer than what I have listed below, please post up.
How about this: music, video games, tv, movies, posters, news, internet. Yes, fine lets blame the parents for not raising their kids right. Here's a truth: PARENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RAISE THEIR KIDS RIGHT. AND They spend much less time than the rest of the influences. FAR less. Still wonder where the idea to kill others comes from? I'm not.
Here's where I will offend some. There is a lot of very negative music out there. USUALLY, [not always, I said USUALLY] these killers are into the "negative sounding music". you know the stuff with really heavy non musical guitars and 200 BPM drummming while some guy screams obsecenities in a gruff distorted voice about killing his girlfriend and parents etc etc. I'm not saying that listening to a few of those songs makes you a killer.... I'm saying it doesn't help AND it adds up with everything else over a long period of time.
Never before in our history has SO MANY negative things been so available, and seen as so normal and acceptable. Think about it!
.... as children we come out and are fed soft pastel pinks and blues, our moms play classical music while we are in the womb - not death metal, we read fun colorful kids books, watch floofy rated G Disney movies, learn from bright cheery shows like Seasame Street, Electric Company, Zoom, Mr. Rogers, and are protected from crap TV, Movies, traffic, bad men inviting us into their cars for candy, ANYTHING bad or damaging to our tender little psychies. CHILDREN are pampered and protected from the hurtful world. Parents do this to help their kids have a good life. Most parents anyway. Then kids go to school and discover wonderful things as bullys, hate, drugs, pain, pressure, axiety, love frustrations, and are slowly indoctronated into a world from h311... and THIS becomes thier playground. WE ALL GO through this! It's part of life. The ones who adopt as their music and lifestyle depressing, negative stuff - CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT of that WILL wear you down... until you don't feel it anymore and don't know it is hurting you.
You are what you eat. Mentally.
It's not JUST music, or video games or movies, or other stuff, it is ALL OF IT AT ONCE adding up to a larger plate than should be eaten. Ever.
PROFILING.
We are smart people. We have computers and stats and projectors for graphs and spreadsheets, and there is a thing called "Profiling" the criminal investigators use that could determine which TYPE of person could be a pedophile or a killer or a tax evader etc etc etc... should we start profiling teenagers? THAT seems futile to me since ALL kids are pretty messed up until they reach adulthood. It seems like profiling would work, but should we do that? that doesn't make sense to me. But WE CHOOSE to allow all these negative influences - heck, we MAKE MONEY off of it - WE allow these things to be digested constantly by teens.... then they go shooting up malls, churches, schools, colleges, and we all scratch our heads and blame the parents? How about we blame ourselves for allowing all this glorified crap as "entertainment" to exist? I don't think we should BAN all forms of music and such, but maybe, just we SHOULD take some responsibility and take a look into it. We have ratings on Movies so 7 years olds can't go watch ****, we have ratings on some video games so 5 year olds can't point a virtual gun into thier friends face and pull the trigger creating an explosion of blood and flesh.... perhaps we SHOULD take a good look at what is influencing people or kids today?
I don't know what the answer is, but I think I know what the cause is.... strike that. I think the answer is KNOWING and DEALING with the cause.
Nobody wants to watch Seaseme Street when they are 20. Why not? hmmmmmmmm Would certainly be better than say, Saw I, II, III, IV wouldn't it? Not realistic right? Well, kids killing others is not realistic either. time to rethink that.
feedback?