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>And people wonder why we have
>gangs, school shootings, and 13 year olds having babies, not to mention
>a total lack of civility in our society.
Thirteen year olds have been having babies since cave days. The prolonged
adolescence that Americans take for granted is a recent, and far from
universal, innovation. FWIW, my grandmother had my dad at age fourteen.
She raised him herself, put him through college (class of '36), and he
turned out just fine.
We have gangs because we have Prohibition and because we have poverty.
We have school shootings because the government drugs children and the
drugs drive them nuts. School itself drives them nuts.
We are not a civil society because we are a capitalist society and the
most basic tenets of capitalism are competition and exploitation. The more
we share and cooperate the more we civil we are.
Blaming these things on media is blaming the messenger. Art reflects life.
Besides, who are you to decide how much sex or violence or anything else
is "too much" in art? Are you an artist? If so, then it is up to you to
decide what does and does not go into your own art, and nobody else's. If
you are not an artist, it's none of your business what any artist does. If
you don't like somebody's art, don't look at it. If you don't think your
kids should see it, don't show it to them. If you think a different kind
of art should be produced, produce it yourself. If you don't know how,
learn.
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