MTV has two "documentary" type shows at the moment. One is "My Sweet 16" or something like that, where these kids throw outrageously expensive parties for their 16th bithday. The other is a show called "Juvies," which is about kids who get themselves in trouble and wind up in Juvenile Hall.
Honestly, I can't figure out which group to be more disturbed by. I'm saddened by the kids from Juvies because they are innocent victims of our age and society, and they have so few role models. In one way, the kids from the Sweet 16 show make me kinda ill too, as they are aggressively vacuous and self-absorbed kids consumed by an intense materialism. However, they are victims as well, in this case, of extremely poor parenting in almost every way that is leaving kids wholely unprepared for the real world. (Oh my God, I just had a scary thought. Maybe these rich kids are being well prepared for their real world. If that's the case, Fuck. I'm heaing off to the mountains.)
Either way, it shows that we are heading to hell in a handbasket.
UPDATE: OK, I guess I'm making some rather vast generalizations, which is never a good idea. Sometimes I type without necessarily putting too much thought into it. Eh.
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