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gassedicycle155 · 05-22-2003, 10:52 PM

cynthetiq - your absolutely right that Mtv has very effective means of business... this may seem out of proportion, but so does the fucking tobacco industry. Smoking has always been an mvp in pop culture, and thats why its so damn common. I know, i know, my body my choice and all that shit.. but i was in a class made up of 1-2 kids from each school in the surrounding area (or most of, anyway), total about 20 kids, and 5 of us didnt smoke. guess who those were? the nerds. Alright - mtv broadcasts a constant array of superficial values, such as constant glorification of popstars, (britney big-tits and the many toughies that proclaim there manliness with gold and bitches,) and over-dramatized "reality shows" with selective and candy-coated representations of what youth across america is growing to believe is how relationships and coping and understanding should be, and soaps like undressed or whatever that attempt to learn kids on social conflicts and such they theyll come to face, but instead these soaps just amplify the over-general preconceptions (ahem, or misconceptions) that kids have about these trials and tribulations. but hey! thank god every other month they have a "news" broadcast on the hardships of being anorexic (which, oddly, doesnt mention the outstanding amount of media influence on the subject) or being a lesbian or being an addict or being a fucking midget THANK GOD they have these shows to prevent the youth from falling into any of these traps, or from not understanding the shame they feel about being different from other kids, the origin of which for SOME reason is left un-touched. So how do my two expose's tie in together? a developing mind is formed by its environment. the three main influences in this mind's environment are basically parents, friends, and the media. The media has a direct effect on the friends, thus making the influence from friends that much stronger. With these two influences growing in a cooperation with one another that one side seems to be more aware of than the other, the third influence, parents, has little room to make an impact. So think of this - forced to go to school and abide by schools rules, forced to abide by their parents rules, kids naturally search for a seperate system to conform to so they have a sense of government independant from that which it has become ever so popular to ignore (not only the us government, but the influence of parental figures and school figures.) now you have pop culture reverberating through the minds of kids, and thus being released into there interaction, with a little peer guidance, pop culture (which, by the way, is at the fingertips of mtv) is a very conveniant system to conform to. what now? americas youth answering to and living alot of there life by the values of a culture which thrives off the fact that kids are submitting themselves to it. Conclusion? Merry Christmas, mtv, you get john doe's soul, wrapped and decorated with a fucking bow.

05-22-2003, 10:52 PM	#38 (permalink)
gassedicycle155 Upright	cynthetiq - your absolutely right that Mtv has very effective means of business... this may seem out of proportion, but so does the fucking tobacco industry. Smoking has always been an mvp in pop culture, and thats why its so damn common. I know, i know, my body my choice and all that shit.. but i was in a class made up of 1-2 kids from each school in the surrounding area (or most of, anyway), total about 20 kids, and 5 of us <u>didnt</u> smoke. guess who those were? the nerds. Alright - mtv broadcasts a constant array of superficial values, such as constant glorification of popstars, (britney big-tits and the many toughies that proclaim there manliness with gold and bitches,) and over-dramatized "reality shows" with selective and candy-coated representations of what youth across america is growing to believe is how relationships and coping and understanding <i>should be</i>, and soaps like undressed or whatever that attempt to learn kids on social conflicts and such they theyll come to face, but instead these soaps just amplify the over-general preconceptions (ahem, or misconceptions) that kids have about these trials and tribulations. but hey! <b>thank god</b> every other month they have a "news" broadcast on the hardships of being anorexic (which, oddly, doesnt mention the outstanding amount of media influence on the subject) or being a lesbian or being an addict or being a fucking midget THANK GOD they have these shows to prevent the youth from falling into any of these traps, or from not understanding the shame they feel about being different from other kids, the origin of which <i>for SOME reason</i> is left un-touched. So how do my two expose's tie in together? a developing mind is formed by its environment. the three main influences in this mind's environment are basically parents, friends, and the media. The media has a direct effect on the friends, thus making the influence from friends that much stronger. With these two influences growing in a cooperation with one another that one side seems to be more aware of than the other, the third influence, parents, has little room to make an impact. So think of this - forced to go to school and abide by schools rules, forced to abide by their parents rules, kids naturally search for a seperate system to conform to so they have a sense of government independant from that which it has become ever so popular to ignore (not only the us government, but the influence of parental figures and school figures.) now you have pop culture reverberating through the minds of kids, and thus being released into there interaction, with a little peer guidance, pop culture (which, by the way, is at the fingertips of mtv) is a very conveniant system to conform to. what now? americas youth answering to and living alot of there life by the values of a culture which thrives off the fact that kids are submitting themselves to it. Conclusion? Merry Christmas, mtv, you get john doe's soul, wrapped and decorated with a fucking bow. __________________ "ive learned not to feed the hand that bites me"