- Twenty years ago something began to happen to us and
to U.S. Something insidious, something strange. Families became single
parent. Many became no parent, meaning both parents worked to give their
kids more. More TV's, more cellphones, pagers, cars and such. Many families
with both parents working had to do so simply because they were poor, earning
minimum or close to minimum wage. This began shortly after the Reagan administration.
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- Following the first World Trade attack, the second World
Trade Center attack, the attack on Afghanistan, Iraq and soon (or at least
likely soon) Iran, Syria, North Korea undt zen ze VERLD, there will be
peace on earth which itself, will be in pieces.
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- So what happened? I've written volumes on this subject
with virtually no decent conclusions on just what the hell changed. Except
for one thing.
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- Parents. Parents not parenting. I mean, it's either parents
wanting (but not needing) more. They say it's for their kids. More of what
they didn't have. Instead of one TV for the house, usually in the family
room or living room, there is now a TV set in the kitchen, the dining room,
the living room, family room and each bedroom. Some folks even have one
in the John. Honest.
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- And so, for the children, more TV sets. Leaves more time
for the kids to set themselves down in just about any room in
the house without having to get up off their fat asses and exercise. Even
the remote controls operate any other set in the house. Universal remote
control.
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- How the heck did we survive having to actually get up
off our asses to adjust the TV set is beyond me. What a drag that was,
eh? And radios are a part of the mess too. AM radio, instead of Sergeant
Preston of the Royal Canadian Police and his trusty dog Barf ... I mean
... King (Arf and WooF!) we have talk shows. Day in and day out. Each
reeking out their own version of who is right, who is left and who is just
plain stupid. If it's Sean Hannity, there is not one Democrat with any
common sense or sense of patriotism. If it's a Liberal show, the opposite
is truth. Not an honest Conservative out there.
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- We orally maim each other with words that cut and bleed
the respect out of the 'other side.' Respect. One down and many more to
go. And I wish they all would. Go, that is.
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- Add "reality TV" to the mix. People acting
out their own version of reality, which in reality is nothing more than
a peep show into the lives of morons. Now let's add the shows where people
bare their souls on the tooob. They actually have real, honest to goodness
fist fights right there in our living rooms. Bedrooms, dens, etc. And TV
watchers lap it all up.
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- Then there are the made for TV movies and movies made
for the movie theater. They still call it a 'theater.' Wonders will never
cease. They too are reality based. Lotsa blood and guts, violence, sex,
profanity where every other word begins with "F" and ends with
"K!" This is reality? Not in my neighborhood. What about yours?
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- Now we introduce modern music. Music which Dylan relates
to in the following way. Speaking about the quality of sound of the vinyl
recording when compared with CD's and tape, Dylan says, "There hasn't
been a music CD out there which deserves vinyl. It's just a mismatch of
noise with nothing in between the noise. And that includes the lyrics.
If one chooses to call the words 'sung' lyrics. Here's an example of one
of the more intellectual lyrics of a famous rap tune:
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- "I'm gonna (blank) your momma until one of us drops
... "
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- And there is:
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- "When I kill my first pig I'm not gonna eat him
... I hate the taste of donuts!"
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- Like that.
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- I paraphrased what Doctor Zimmerman said. He
went on to say (on his talk radio show) that there are very few, if not
none, young'ens out there who audited a vinyl recording. And even if they
did, they could not distinguish the quality of vinyl over CD. Why? Simply
because with modern youth type music, it wouldn't make a difference. And
even if it did make a difference, young people today would not recognize
the difference. Youth indeed is wasted on the young.
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- I cannot imagine that young people today were not alive
when we walked on the moon for the first time, when JFK was assassinated,
when Sputnik went up there. A cantaloup sized ball announcing the following
message ... "Beep, beep, beep, beep ... " ad nauseum.
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- Where were our young people when ... well, forget it.
Not their fault they were born too late. And it's not their fault that
their teachers, their schoolbooks and such, lie like rugs when it comes
to the truth about what happened when. Having said that, if these kids
had parents to come home to in lieu of being nurtured at the mall with
the skin heads they so admire, you know, the ones with a tattoo on their
bare scalps which say something lewd or lascivious followed by a NAZI swastika
to nail it all down, they would actually have some guidance. Not from a
couselor but from a parent. A parent with enough time to get off their
cellphones to actually COMMUNICATE with their kids.
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- I could go on but it wouldn't much matter. You see,
no one is listening. They're all at the mall or watching reality TV.
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- "Reality." A rather interesting word, eh?
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- Jim Mortellaro, AKA, Morty
- Email: Morty@MortysCabin.Net
- URL: www.MortysCabin.Net
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