Perhaps your teenagers would have been part of the fallout when a bomb explosion on MTV occurred. However, the fuse-lit was some years ago. How come we folded our hands and watched this bomb explosion? Right from their infancy, all the signs have been there – all the media featured these signs, including magazines, television, and now the web (the internet – with its numerous latest social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter… name them).
Of course, cell phones are not excluded. None of these media was left out in this fuse burning, and the entire neighborhood, household, and even school all had their part of the explosion. Unfortunately, no one cared to check what would become of this – now, see what is having landed us into.
The viewership of the Skins (a television show) was nearly 3.2 million – debuted on Viacom’s MTV. This figure is its highest ratings in the 12 to the 34-year-old range. By the way, ‘Dora the Explorer’ on Nickelodeon is also featured by same Viacom. The concerns with the show Skins is obvious – watch the trailer; but, my emphasis is not on this itself (although these are a lot of concerns on its own), my emphasis is directed on our culture itself. We may say we had nothing to do with the fuse-lit – but we did not do anything to stop it while it was burning all the way until it got to the bomb itself.
Did Skins Light the Fire?
Were you around the planet in the 80s, when Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne (the heavy metal band) became involved in certain teenager’s suicide? Do you remember that it was the wordings of their song that complicated them, and the case eventually was dragged to the court? My belief then, which I also maintain right now is this; the musical interest of these young adults and teens is only a pointer of their attitudes, emotions and what they believe in.
Coming back to the show Skins, the suicidal impact of the heavy metal band’s music on those teenagers is comparable to the sex-abuse effect that Skins has on our children. These influences impact our kids and culture substantially. From infancy, our kids are left unprotected by sexual content – we may or may not admit it, but these ugly exposures are partly responsible for our kids’ unspoken vernacular, including ours.
It is quite obvious that we are folding our hands and doing nothing about the undesirable influences on our kids and culture – of course, the burning fuse resulted to the explosion. At every nook and crane, Skins is being echoed and viewed – with the sole message on all the media being that sex is power, and the escape route is drugs.
These messages are far-reaching and influential – but think of it, are we not power seekers in one way or the other? Examine this thoroughly!
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