. . . for the youth of America.
I pity today's young people. They live in an age of technology, an age of information, an age where the combined knowledge and opinion of the entire world lays just a few keystrokes away. They live in an age where artistic expression is carrying movies to new highest and Television is bringing new and exciting programming right into their rooms.
I pity them now, for they stand to lose access to it all.
All because of the actions of two psychotic bastards.
Yes, of course I speak of Eric (*cough* *cough* loser) Harris and Dylan (*hack* *hack* asswipe) Kelbolt. Two "high school loser ass dickheads" (thank you Scream 2) that just didn't have the 'nads to take what life gave them. I mean, I'm sorry, but is some bully putting you down and trying to beat your ass? Guess what? That's Life. It's tough. Damn tough. But Jesus, should you go out and blow away 13 people because life gives you crap? Everybody, who's done that, please raise your hand.
Some words of warning: this won't be namby-pamby, question asking, (hopefully, but I doubt it) thought provoking exercise in strangeness that my Third Contribution. Oh, no, this time I've actually got something to say (unlike the flock of talking heads CNN paraded out) because this time I've reached a conclusion. While drinking chocolate milk and starring at a Rolling Stones video on M2 a thought warp speeded its way across my mind: You Baby Boomers are such fucking hypocrites.
Look at yourselves. You with your 3 piece suits and your fancy ass cars and your 6.9% mortgage. Look at what you've become. You guys kicked some ass, you had freedome and rocking' music. Remember those days? Days of communes and folk music? Remember days when men could walk down the street and be mistaken for Jesus? Remember those times that my parents told me of so fondly?
Do you remember what your parents thought of the Beatles?
That's right, those Beatles. Remember when your mom and day thought of them as the five horsemen of the Apocalypse, here to steal their impressionable children? Remember when mom and dad thought Rock n' Roll was the evil Spawn of Satan?
And if it wasn't the Beatles, it was the Rolling Stones. And if not for them then you can insert your own from the following
1. Jimmi Hendrix
2. Jim Morrison
3. KISS (it's got to KISS, KISS pissed off every parent from Maine to Hawaii).
You do remember that, don't you? You haven't become that blind in your old age, have you? Yes, you remember, don't you? So now, you have the very power you fought against of virulently. You've become The Man. Guess what you're saying to your kids?
Does the name Marilyn Manson ring a bell?
How about computer games? What do you think of those?
What about violence in movies? Eh?
See? You've become the thing you hated the most: your parents.
I hope you're proud of yourselves.
Don't be sad. Don't be ashamed. Your parents probably came to the same conclusion, as did their parents before you and your children after you (if they haven't already). You have simply become part of the majority. And now your children have some things you didn't, things that will, of course, End Civilization.
Comic books, jazz music, the radio, movies with sound, TV, Rock n' Roll, drugs, war protests, drugs again, voting Democrat, drugs (again), comic books (again), violent movies, rap music, all these have come before, all have been the target of their period's moral majority. All have also remained in our culture, standing up to the test of time. Guess what, people, your parents were looking in the wrong place. So are you. And, since the human race seams to be getting dumber, so will your kids.
When you were young, you believed in freedom of expression, didn't you? Don't lie to me. Suddenly, now that you have the power, the kids and the mortgage you seam to think that freedom of expression doesn't exist any more. And all because some suburban white kids went nuclear. Tell me something, lawmakers, why is it that black kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids and (yes) even white kids of the inner city can blow each other away all they damn well please, but when some white kid with rich parents, his own car, and a $200 dollar trench coat goes wacky our children need to be saved. Why must this happen in the suburbs before someone takes notice? Huh? Answer me that?
And why is it always Entertainment's fault. When some suburban adult springs a brain leak none of you two-face butt pirates gives Entertainment a passing glance. We must Save the Children from the "plague" of violence in the media. What about the adults? God, double standards smell worse then dead skunk.
It's getting worse, too. Take this for example: for some damned reason (probably those swanky trench coats), The Matrix will not be released on VHS. What the hell is up with that! Jesus, humans have free will, and are suppose to have an understanding of the difference between fantasy and reality. If they do, then they can watch anything they damn well please. The purpose of entertainment is to entertain, after all. If I'm entertained by watching Keanu blow people away and dodge bullets at light speed then it is my God given right to sit down on my ever expanding butt and do just that!
Just who the hell are you to decide what I should watch? Who the hell are you to say what is objectionable? And who the hell are you to use children as a crutch to prop up your crusade to inforce your morals on the rest of this country?
Oh, I see who you are; you're your parents.
So, like the relatively new song says, "Say a prayer for the youth of America". Because their parents have become hypocrites.