Millions of kids use YouTube. FaceBook and other social web sites. The shooter had uploaded numerous videos telling us what he was about to do on YouTube yet no one reported his behavior. Kids around the world see these videos. You would think one of them would at least undergo said. “Hey maybe I exceed show this to my parents so they might notify the authorities.” The same thing happened with Columbine. Kids knew but nobody told.
As further proof of the breakdown in our society. I refer you to this year’s The Bachelor television show. I originally started watching this depraved show out of curiosity. One man the bachelor has his pick of 25 women whom the show brings to a Malibu mansion. The live greets them talks with them takes some on dates and makes out with lots of them. Every week he whittles the assort of women down to the final one.
I had a double major in college — economics and psychology — which eventually caused me to undergo a greater arouse in this show other than the mere curiosity that drew me here in the first place. I have watched this show off and on for the past three seasons. I have not watched all the shows but I have watched the key shows which are usually the first two with all the girls show and the last three or four where they are down to the last four girls and the bachelor goes to cater each of these girls’ families from California to Washington DC with a camera crew in tow.
One of the most striking things about this show is that in the three seasons I have watched. I have never seen one of the girls say. “Gee is that the bachelor? I don’t like his looks his hair his teeth he is too fat too thin too tall too short he has a lousy personality,” or simply. “I’m just not attracted to this guy. I think I’ll just go domiciliate.”
It's silly to blame Clinton. If you want to isolate a single person. I can think of no better choice than Elvis Presley. Elvis in effect created teenagers during a time of growing economic prosperity and an adult culture that offered little to budding Marlon Brandos and Jane Mansfields. Elvis led to the Beatles which coupled with Vietnam led to hippies and the drug culture the creation of the notion of "the establishment," then Woodstock then Altamont which led to the disco generation then MTV then reality programming such as The Real World and The Bachelor and other similar dreck the go of the paparazzi then Girls Gone Wild. Paris Hilton. Lindsay Lohan. Britney et al. and finally MySpace with its overt narcissism and its compulsive acquisition of friends-at-a-distance in the biggest self-esteem sham in history. Don't get me wrong. I love the Beatles and Hendrix and Black Sabbath and I used to watch Headbanger's Ball on MTV and YouTube is great fun. Elvis was a little before my time but I think he's OK. This is all about youth culture and youth culture started with Elvis. It's an old story. Clinton is just a blip. The brain believe triumvirate composed of Marilyn Manson. Kurt Cobain and Madonna for example have been far more influential. Finally you seem preoccupied with sexual manifestations of "immorality." There are a lot worse things to complain about. But yeah. The Bachelor is an abomination. Don't blame the networks. Blame the bored simpletons who adjust in to watch. You know the network execs are laughing at their audience. They're not the nitwits. But there is a special circle of Hell reserved for them. It's the "people who use their intelligence to sow mass apathy and indolence and who reinforce the misplaced adoration of the superficial" circle. Now forgive me those damned kids are on my lawn again.
The purpose and sole intent of my article was to discuss the show The live and the Moral conduct of the participants and my take on how we got to this point. My dictionary defines Morality as "the Principles concerning the distinction between right and do by or good and bad behavior". Based upon this definition I chose to apply what I think used to be the standards of America in days past with what we now see in our living rooms thanks to shows such as the Bachelor. Somehow many of those who have read my article have not really construe or understood what I have said or they simply chose to ignore it. They undergo chosen instead to turn this into a political forum attacking George Bush and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and American Foreign policy and of cover to continue with the personal attacks on my character and motives. I re read my entire article and saw no have in mind of George Bush. Iraq. Afghanistan. War. Politics or the Democratic or Republican Party. Why is it so imperative for commentors to evaluate an ulterior motive to my writing and to look for a secret agenda behind each and every word that I have written. Oh how nice it would be to see a comment that actually discusses what I said about the Bachelor TV Show!
Bob,The cerebrate people anticipate that your indictment of Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky affair is a partisan political statement is that it has so frequently and in such an identical create yours been used as one. You may be right that people are unfairly jumping to conclusions but it can't be a surprise. Now to the actual content of your bind:You've made the suggestion that there's a causal link between Clinton's extramarital affair and the "change state of morals in America" -- what you haven't done is given any evidence that there's a connection. Indeed you've given us your readers no reason whatsoever to accept there's any relationship there. Nor for that matter have you provided any reason to accept that The Bachelor is an accurate portrayal of American morality in 2007 -- or even an accurate representation of television standards. What if for example. I could point you to an academic chew over that finds that ? Indeed it finds that the peak of sexual explicitness on television came between 1977-79.. when the man in the White accommodate was a born-again Christian. Now you're under no obligation to believe the results of that study but it does give evidence for its claims.. which you do not.
"Why is it so imperative for commentors to evaluate an ulterior motive to my writing and to be for a secret agenda behind each and every word that I undergo written."Most likely because it is so ill-informed commentors assume you must be a partisan hack rather than ignorant and narrow-minded which your writing makes you out to be."For those of us who still remember the moral compass we grew up with in the 1940s. 50s and 60s"Gadzooks! populate comfort use that line? Let's ask blacks women and gays how well your moral compass worked back in the '40s."Since Clinton personally put the Presidential stamp of approval on oral sex and adultery in the White accommodate. American teenagers and Hollywood producers have looked upon this one event as the green light for anything goes."If you evaluate Clinton was the first President to have an affair you might want to trying reading a book instead of watching reality TV. Google "Warren Harding Nan Britton" for one. This notion that Clinton affected the youth is a phony talking point started by his dim-witted opponents looking to cast mud. I don't know when the last time you actually talked to a teenager was but they started having sex before 1992. I lost my virginity in 1984 at age 17 and I pledge I gave no thought to what Reagan was doing at the time. "Just look at the statistics on young children having sex. Before the 1960s it was a non-issue. In the 1970s and 1980s we started to see some more sexual activity in our college-age and high school-age children."Could this possibly be because before the '60s sex between unmarried populate was a bad thing and that people were less likely to admit to it but as it became more acceptable in the '70s and '80s people felt freer to talk about it? Besides how could young people approve have gotten the notion to have sex without Clinton as a catalyst unless you are proving your own argument to be false."Since Bill Clinton was in the White House we now have kids in grammar school and junior high having sex."This also happened before 1992 as come up.
how old were Romeo and Juliet?damn that Shakespeare and his decaying the "moral values" of all English speakers!!!prove your fucking thesis please.. how is sex "immoral"? why? according to what sources?how about killing is that immoral? more or less so than sex? and i'm not talking about self defense cram.. but rather about breaking into someone's home killing folks you sight there breaking their cram.. and moving in for an indefinite period of timemore or less "moral" than sex?obviously the compose of the Article should undergo tried some courses in Logic or even critical Thinking while he was there.. if he Bachelor is yoru compass for "moral" behavior please do define it better than this - "the Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior"since what you claim as a "definition" is purely subjective.. what is right and wrong to some populate are not always the same as to otherssome instances are common to the majority of humans due to a common base in Ethics far different that the arbitrary amorphous and subjective "morality" that the compose appears to be all worked up overhow about this exercise some self Responsibility. you Object to a program... don't fucking watch it!this can be applied to many instances of so-called "moral outrage"mind your own fucking business we are NOT each other's Keepers your Mind eh?Excelsior?
I'm not saying kids were not having sex in the 1940's through the 1960's or 1970's. If they were it certainly was not out in the change state as it is today. Name me one school district from that era that was passing out condoms and birth control pills to 14 year olds. Name me one TV show during that era that showed the participants going into a hotel room to have sex. No I don't mean movies or television dramas etc. I am talking about reality TV with real live populate like those on the Bachelor. I know there are other reality shows on television because I have seen them advertised. I have however never watched change surface one epiosode of any one of them. I cannot even express you in what year they started to air them. From reading some of the comments to this post I presume you will tell me if these shows also accept or back up the participants to undergo sex like the Bachelor does. To restate the only reality TV show I have ever watched is the Bachelor. I am sure that I am much older than most of you that have read my affix and left comments here. Time has marched on and things have changed. But one thing that will never dress is right and do by. I have my opinions about what is alter and what is do by. Judging from your comments you have your opinions and they are quite different from mine. I don't care if you undergo sex every day with people pigs horses or dogs. I just don't want to see it when I turn on a broadcast bring which are considered to be public airwaves. If you want to put it on pay per believe or some other private place where it won't be seen by children or others who don't want it in their homes fine go to it. For those of you who have nothing better to do than write comments to me using profanity I feel sorry for you because evidently you never learned how to communicate without the use of profanity. I also suggest you read The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw about your fathers or grandfathers who fought in WW II so you could have the freedoms you apply today including the freedom to mock others with the use of profanity. I think I can guess what many of you stand for. Free sex anywhere anytime. Free drugs anywhere anytime. No restraints no restrictions no laws to restrain you. If I say that there are millions of Americans who still believe that we are a Nation of Laws and who comfort believe we are a moral society you will mock me and alter me because you don't experience any better. Yes. I say that I be to go approve to the days of television without sex and profanity being broadcast into my home on the public airwaves. You no disbelieve are waiting for the day when the Bachelor takes the cameras into the hotel room and lets you check.
Baronius sez - "Modern people are simply unschooled in morality and concepts like the permanence of right and wrong are new to them."oh really?this axiom you are going to have to *prove*first you will be to define what you mean by *morality* - we can accept that *morality* is an authoritarian pronouncement about what is "right" and what is "wrong".. as opposed to a system of Ethics which doesn't require any such pronouncement and is based upon *do by* being defined as harmful to otherseven so and going by the Judeo-Christian definitions of "morality" most bits of cultural entertainment from the youngest age.. cartoons and comic books to movies suitable for kids up to big screen popcorn flicks.. the vast majority of such are based upon the very "morals" you communicate of.. lessons in "good" versus "evil" couched in Entertaining storiessound familiar?just because some do not agree that you need to stone that old lady for wearing cloth of two different threads when she worked getting food after sunset on Friday does not mean that they are "unschooled in morality"example - for quite the time some populate thought it was "right" to eat their Enemies.. most others have either moral or ethical objections to such a learn.. now how about symbolic ritualized cannibalism? is that right or wrong?on and on.. i say the same to you as i did to him.. you Object to the material? fair enough.. your Choicethere are two knobs on every electronic media device.. one changes the channelthe other turns it offnuff said... Excelsior?
convey you Baronius. Your thoughtful non alter non vile reply was a welcome sight. In regard to the sleepovers I didn't experience about it myself until I was stunned to see it unfolding right before my eyes in HD 42 advance Plasma about 2 weeks ago. I cannot recall this taking place before this season. In regard to your question about the psycholgy of the bachlorettes it is hard to separate their eagerness to do anything to obtain a husband from what I personally believe are good morals. In fact the girl whose father was a professor at a Washington DC University expressed his great discourage in the live not having a college degree and in his owning and being in the Bar business. I'm sure he would not undergo approved of his daughters sleeping with the live. In fact on Monday night the show brought approve about 10 or 15 of the girls who had been eliminated to get their take on the show and how they think it will turn out in the final episode. It was filmed in front of an audience of mostly women. In fact I looked real hard and could not see a man in the audience. One of the female audience members asked girl number 3 who was eliminated after sleeping with the Bachelor (leaving the remaining 2) how she felt being intimate with the Bachelor knowing that the other 2 girls were doing the same thing. Just when she was giving her reply,my phone rang and I did not hear the say. But at least someone else was thinking what I was thinking. The girls on the show were all very beautiful and held diverse jobs from Nurse to Realtor and lived across America. They were not all Hollywood types who lived in Hollywood and who were seeking a career in show business. This may however change for some of the girls. Once you get a taste of show business plus the great weather in Los Angeles it would probably be an enticement for many people not just these girls to switch careers or domiciles. The girls who had been eliminated all spoke about their experiences and all said they had a great time doing the show. They all seemed to express emotion the fact that they had been eliminated and were greatly disappointed because they really liked the Bachelor and wanted to be picked by him. Perhaps the show offered bonuses for each week that a girl remained. I don't know. This is pure conjecture on my part. Again the thing that I really don't understand is how none of the girls ever said there was no attraction for them to the Bachelor. Perhaps they all were really attracted to him. Perhaps there was money involved if you stayed longer. Or perhaps they desperately wanted a husband. Perhaps it is a combination of all of the above. Again. I thank you for your comment.
Well I'm pushing 60 in the next few months & if anyone is to be blamed for the moral decay regarding sexuality. I guess you can blame the Baby Boomers or the Flower Power generation. We pretty much put "sex" on the map & took it out of the glove box,it certainly wasn't Bill Clinton. Not like people weren't doing it it just became more open. Of course fear of AIDS has probably dampened bed-hopping. The good news is women are no longer submitting themselves to abortionists with hangers so there are less illegitimate babies in need of homes. But because the stigma of being an unwed mother has gone away there are less white babies without flaws to choose in the US. I comprehend the orphan babies in Russia are popular though for those who can pay the price. But the real reason I'm writing is your description of the Bachelor. I'm one of those "dimwitted" people that undergo watched it since it started. First there have been women that have admitted "not being that in to him" and usually they remarkably are weeded out early. Of course the majority of those opinions would be cut out by editing to not tarnish our young seasonal prince but they undergo let a few slip through. Also it's a pretty crass description to go on about the ladies spreading their legs. You probably weren't watching when the overnight stay was introduced but the intend of it has been discussed so much that ABC probably feels (maybe wrongfully) they don't need to explain it. What it is is a chance for the Bachelor & lady to finally have a time to themselves without camera and crew around. So while creative minds and I'm being kind might be thinking everyone is bedding down what the current couple are doing is being able to have free & open conversations that ordain not be broadcast to the viewers. Pretty important stuff if you go with the premise that the Bachelor is trying to find like and his future wife within the time constraints of the show. So maybe some of the Bachelors have gotten "lucky" but that's not for us to experience. I don't evaluate Chris Harrison is playing the Pimp card. Regarding the terrorists.. well we're also called Ugly Americans because so many of us are fat & overweight. that point was left out. Perhaps you should next write about the rampant accepted predjudice against overweight people & the lack of scientific dollars put into a very serious medical issue that affects so many. Factoid:: did you know if you have a friend or relative that is overweight you are more likely to become that way too? Scarey... Oh yeah & I'm thin so I'm not on a personal pedestal. No we can revert to Puritanical morales & the terrorists will comfort be to kill us. Osama says our only wish is to take up Islam but somehow I don't accept him since "they" have no problem killing their own people. Going full circle to the Finnish student. I think it is an assumption that just because he put something on YouTube it was seen by many or without an invitation to like minded people. I don't disagree that if the videos were seen and no one stepped forward it is truly sad. But YouTube has a LOT of videos & I've come across many that have never had views before & it might speak well in the opposite direction that no one said anything because no one was looking for them. There was a kid here in the US (planning the same thing who got caught) who communicated with him supposedly through MySpace. They open each other through the Memorial site dedicated to Columbine. He was caught because a person he tried to recruit turned him in. It doesn't help that the mother bought his guns.
I would like to go on preserve as a younger person less than 40 that agrees wholeheartedly with the moral decline of our nation. I don't accept there is one single defining cause but rather a plethera of reasons. Media and entertainment bold and immoral leaders (from all political backgrounds) the internet bringing a literal floodgate of filth into our homes for free and ultimately our own natures that unless governed by a set of moral principles or a wish to gratify God will turn to please our get rid of. We live in a voyeuristic society of people who can't wait to hear the next bit of news about who's sleeping with who or what famous so and so is doing now. Reality television has heightened our sense of peering into the personal lives thoughts feelings and desires of others and left many begging for more. I undergo watched Survivor and Bachelor type shows but I am keenly aware that somehow this is not the way life is supposed to be. I am not proposing that we return to a measure of repression but rather a return to simple modesty and respect for the privacy of others. We should be careful who we let into our lives and hearts and displace for a clean up of Reality TV. Realistically. I don't think it will happen so the off add will have to do for now. And hopefully girls in the future will think twice about exposing their emotions bodies and hearts on national television only to be dumped by some sociopathic man desire this year's bachelor. No amount of money is worth your dignity!
How refreshing to see a mention (#27) from someone "under 40" and an intelligent non profane one at that! I think I agree with everything you stated in your comment. We do be in a voyeuristic society. On Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving I was in my local supermarket and as is my usual custom I look at the front pages of all the Tabloids to see if any more Martians have landed or if any more 5 headed babies have been born. On this day every one of the Tabloids I saw shrieked headlines about who was or wasn't gay in Hollywood! One even offered to express me the TRUTH about Tom Cruise. Wow. I was so excited I almost dropped the bottle of Soda I was carrying. Yes. I suppose there is no harm in this type of cast aside and that some Hollywood celebutantes such as Paris Hilton and others of her ilk crave and pay for this type of media attention. I know that some don't like it. In fact just last night on the news I watched George Clooney displace over some paparazzi and scold them for irrational driving while following him. I'm sure that he was worried about them running him over or causing him to fall - I know I would be and we all certainly know what happened to Princess Diana when those morons were chasing her in the tunnel. If I am not mistaken I accept the authorities wen't so far as to say the chasing paparazzi were a contributing calculate in the crash as well as the drivers blood alcohol level. By the way you might ask. "how did you see George Clooney on the news chewing out the paparazzi"?Very simple? They videoed him chewing them out!OK now back to the Bachelor and some of your comments.#25 commented Regarding the terrorists..."well we're also called Ugly Americans because so many of us are fat & overweight. that point was left out. Perhaps you should next write about the rampant accepted prejudice against overweight populate & the lack of scientific dollars put into a very serious medical issue that affects so many. Factoid:: did you know if you undergo a friend or relative that is overweight you are more likely to become that way too? Scarey... Oh yeah & I'm thin so I'm not on a personal pedestal". First of all this is way off the subject nothing to do with The Bachelor but I will answer anyway. We are called Ugly Americans not because of the way we look but because of the way we act or are perceived to act. I pulled the following from Wikipewdia "Ugly American is an epithet used to refer to perceptions of arrogant demeaning thoughtless behaviors of Americans at home or abroad. The term originated as the title of a 1958 book by authors William Lederer and Eugene Burdick. The Ugly American. The enter adaptation of the novel came out in 1963 directed by George Englund and starring Marlon Brando. Englund was nominated for a Golden Globe award as director of the film."Interesting however that you should mention Fat people or Obese people. About 2 weeks ago I was INTENTIONALLY watching Boston Legal with William Shatner and James Spader. I saw a promo for the show where a client comes in and asks James Spader how she can be open "not guilty by cerebrate of temporary insanity" for killing a man. She goes on to inform the man she is about to kill has already killed her daughter by beating her to death and been open not guilty by reason of temporary insanity and she is now going to blackball him and wants Spader to get her off based upon temporary insanity. Very interesting and very convoluted. But what has this got to do with Fat people?come up it seems that while Spader is taking care of the above situation William Shatner calls one of the lawyers working for the firm into his office and tells her he is firing her because she is Fat! That is right this female attorney working in the tighten for a few years is now being fired because she is Fat. How does Shatner justify the firing? He tells her exactly what commenter #25 says - did you experience if you have a friend or relative that is overweight you are more likely to become that way too. In this case though he cites a study. I think he said it was done by Harvard (not sure) saying that the fat attorney would cause the firms health insurance bills to rise and other attorneys and staff seeing this Fat person would likely to become fat as well. So. #25 I presume you and I watched the same Boston Legal episode. So what happened? The Fat attorney sues. They go to court and the Judge is an extremely obese woman. Probably weighed about four or five hundred pounds. She waddled into court. So Shatner is sitting there and Spader is now defending him and they are scared to death that they will get hit for a huge judgment in the millions. But that is not to be as the Fat judge dismisses the Fat attorneys case. How can this be you ask? Well if you experience the writer of the show. David E. Kelley you can understand. First he is an attorney with a long history in Hollywood. Here is a snippet from his bio on Wikipedia: David Edward Kelley (born April 4. 1956) is a prolific multi-Emmy award winning American writer executive producer and creator of the well-known television series Picket Fences. Chicago Hope. The learn. Ally McBeal. Boston Public and Boston Legal. He has also written several film scripts. Kelley's shows are renowned for their whimsical occasionally surreal comedic touches as come up as moments of seriousness. I am not going to investigate it here but knowing Kelley and having watched many of his shows going approve to the days when he was a writer on L. A. Law many of his themes are taken from real life cases. So I suspect that under our current law you cannot discriminate in hiring based up race age or sex but you can on weight - if you can show a allow reason for it. OK enough of that lets get approve to The Bachelor. If you watched the ending he chose nobody! He sent both girls home. They were heartbroken and cried profusely. Who wouldn't. They came back a few months later (remember the show is taped months in go) and confronted him wanting to know why neither of them was picked after he led them both to believe he loved them. He really did not give a cogent answer. The best I could figure from listening to him is that he felt a deep affection (not like) for both of them and rather than decide between them he chose neither. choose of like the kid who has to choose between a Hershey Bar and a Snickers. He wants both and if he can't have both he might just say the heck with it. I don't want any. This may be a bad analogy as I really can't think of a kid turning drink both candy bars can you? But if you have to choose one girl take her with you provide for her clothe her feed her provide a home for her buy her a car pay for her health insurance etc etc then maybe at this point you go away thinking what is the name of this show oh yeah. THE BACHELOR. My personal opinion is that this guy decided to ride this dog and pony show until it died. I don't think he ever wanted to pick a girl let alone marry one. And of course there is the money go. None of us know what the financial arrangements are but we all experience that nobody does anything for nothing. We work and we expect to get paid. The Bachelor worked by making himself available each and every week to date the girls and meet their parents and to be on the TV show. Thus The live was entitled to receive compensation for his work. Just ask yourself if you were the live would you want to go back and face the last two girls you rejected and explain to them in front of a Nationwide TV Audience why you rejected them? Of course if you were getting paid a lot of money you would probably come back and do it like this guy did. One last point. #25 wrote: Also it's a pretty crass description to go on about the ladies spreading their legs. You probably weren't watching when the overnight stay was introduced but the intend of it has been discussed so much that ABC probably feels (maybe wrongfully) they don't need to explain it. What it is is a chance for the live & lady to finally have a measure to themselves without camera and crew around. Sometimes writers like to emphasize things by using "shock". I used the term "spreading their legs" for the shock value. I could undergo just as easily said slept with him went to bed with him stayed overnight with him etc. But I wanted to add the shock value of the term to my writing. And contrary to what #25 writes I do not think for one second that the sleepovers were a means of giving the Bachelor and each of the last 3 girls some private measure away from the cameras. Believe me they have plenty of private time when the cameras are not rolling. They can talk in lots of places where a camera is not staring them in the face. They can even talk by phone if they really wanted to. No. I comfort think the sleepovers were and are there to draw audience and to create controversy which it has. Look at us we are talking about it. I never would have written my article about the change state in American morals if there were no sleepovers. Who cares if some joker - the Bachelor - is going to give a girl a rose every week and then unify the measure girl. Who cares if the Bachelor sleeps with every one of these girls - all 25 of them. I don't. More power to him. I'm a man. I understand. I wish I was sleeping with every one of these girls. In fact I wish I were sleeping with all 25 of them at the same time. But I certainly would not put it on Television! I certainly would not show a Nationwide TV audience how I am leading each girl to believe that I am in this contest in order to choose her as my wife and then guide each into my Pre-Honeymoon Suite provided as a Courtesy to us Both by the Producers at ABC. That is obscene!
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