Because nowadays, kids think that Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, or Lil Boosie are role models. Nowadays, instead of leaving something to the imagination, music is outright saying "sell drugs", "shoot that bitch", "have sex in the club". Not just niche music, THE MAINSTREAM. Nowadays, porn is too easy to access. I got my first porno (not my parents) when I was twenty! Nowadays, it's impossible to punish a kid. I've been dispatched to more "child abuse" calls -where the kid BEAT UP THE PARENT than I care to remember. -More kids in school with guns, or drugs. -More incidences of under-age sex.
When I was younger, we had our good kids, our bad kids, our cool kids, our nerds, etc. Now, everybody is so damned "cool". Everyone is a carbon copy of everyone else. WTF? I live in a small town in Georgia. How the hell did everyone become iced out, "gangsta grilled", braided up, thugs (I'm black, BTW -and I'm talking about both races. I lived in Atlanta for two years, -got my ass whipped!! If these kids knew what a real gangsta was, they'd shit themselves!
Drug culture is mainstream. Violence is mainstream. Profanity is mainstream. Sex is mainstream. MY GENERATION has pushed the envelope so much, and now it's too late to turn back. But we were certainly entertained, right? If I didn't see it EVERYDAY, maybe I wouldn't be so jaded. As it stands, I seriously fear for our immediate future.
