So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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You know, I'm very distressed by the way children are learnimg violence, killing, lack of compassion, scorn anything religeous or patriotic and sex at very young ages. I have been thinking about these issues for some time. It seems to me that the degeneration of our kids started way back when Health classes in schools were replaced by sex education. Then we had some powerful people behind Madelyn murray o'hare and censorship was removed. (Banned in Boston). Consequently music wasn't music anymore; just a bunch of groups and singers who tried to outdo each other with the loud instruments and no sense of decency where lyrics are concerned. And the violence, sex and murder they see on television would desensitize anyone. So many millions of children have no competent parent or other to guide and protect them.
Yes, I'm all for censorship when it comes to what our very young children are exposed to. They don't have childhoods anymore. They know everything by the time they're five years old. What do they have to look forward to? This country is, to quote Merle Haggard, rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell.
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Not in Front of the Children: Indencency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth by Marjorie Heins
juma, March 16, 2010
You know, I'm very distressed by the way children are learnimg violence, killing, lack of compassion, scorn anything religeous or patriotic and sex at very young ages. I have been thinking about these issues for some time. It seems to me that the degeneration of our kids started way back when Health classes in schools were replaced by sex education. Then we had some powerful people behind Madelyn murray o'hare and censorship was removed. (Banned in Boston). Consequently music wasn't music anymore; just a bunch of groups and singers who tried to outdo each other with the loud instruments and no sense of decency where lyrics are concerned. And the violence, sex and murder they see on television would desensitize anyone. So many millions of children have no competent parent or other to guide and protect them.Yes, I'm all for censorship when it comes to what our very young children are exposed to. They don't have childhoods anymore. They know everything by the time they're five years old. What do they have to look forward to? This country is, to quote Merle Haggard, rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell.
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