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Jul 31, 2007, 08:04 PM
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Gennady Stolyarov II
07-29-07
The predicament plaguing a tremendous number of school-age children today is too obvious to be overlooked. A preponderance of rudeness, a disdain for the intellect, and a lack of motivation or work ethic are the least of their problems. The widespread tendency toward self-destructive activity – including teenage intercourse, self-abasing parties where alcohol is consumed with drunkenness as the goal and other more damaging drugs are introduced, the frequent desire to put one’s life on the line to “prove a point” or demonstrate one’s “coolness” – is far more disturbing.
Combine that with the admiration that even many affluent young men have for “gangsta” thugs and the desires of many teenage girls to wear clothes that in earlier eras would have made professional “fallen women” blush – and you will start to get a picture of the kinds of forces that actively stymie the futures of so many of America’s young people – before they even have a chance to fight back. The predominant ethos of today’s mainstream youth culture taken to its logical conclusion is one of self-inflicted debasement, degeneration, and death – all for the sake of a twisted idea of “fun,” used to label activities that are not even remotely enjoyable in any profound or enduring way.
http://www.grasstopsusa.com/gs072907.html
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By Gennady Stolyarov II
07-29-07
The predicament plaguing a tremendous number of school-age children today is too obvious to be overlooked. A preponderance of rudeness, a disdain for the intellect, and a lack of motivation or work ethic are the least of their problems. The widespread tendency toward self-destructive activity – including teenage intercourse, self-abasing parties where alcohol is consumed with drunkenness as the goal and other more damaging drugs are introduced, the frequent desire to put one’s life on the line to “prove a point” or demonstrate one’s “coolness” – is far more disturbing.
Combine that with the admiration that even many affluent young men have for “gangsta” thugs and the desires of many teenage girls to wear clothes that in earlier eras would have made professional “fallen women” blush – and you will start to get a picture of the kinds of forces that actively stymie the futures of so many of America’s young people – before they even have a chance to fight back. The predominant ethos of today’s mainstream youth culture taken to its logical conclusion is one of self-inflicted debasement, degeneration, and death – all for the sake of a twisted idea of “fun,” used to label activities that are not even remotely enjoyable in any profound or enduring way.
http://www.grasstopsusa.com/gs072907.html
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