By: Juice

Juice — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:22:06 +0000

And all the while the lines between reality and fantasy get blurred even further. The ensurgence of the new “reality” shows, like Teen Mom, come along to catapault young children into stardom, who, otherwise, would have never held any redeeming value to humanity. I don’t know about you, but when I was a yout, teen moms were just sluts to be snickerd at behind their backs. But now, we’ve become a society that exalts the destruction of our youth, encouraging it by holding it up to the light for all to see. At once, we have society both collectively snickering at the debauchery of sex and drugs, but at the same time giving Joe (and Jane) Blow an instant avenue to stardom and magazine covers. In a way, I think Columbine opened the door to this. Like that first hit of heroin, so strong it leaves you hugging the toilet all night, but also creating a thirst that can never be quenched, Columbine awakened a hunger inside society. It hit us like a ghetto pimp’s back-handed slap to the face, at once bringing us to full attention, and giving us our first strong taste of that macabre fascination with youthful destruction that now prevades our culture. Recognizing that we’d never survive another hit as big as that first one, we are none-the-less forever on that never ending chase for the next high, forced to wratchet up the stakes, not caring for the harm it might be doing to those that get used up and spit out along the way. And as sensitization slowly grows with every new drunk and/or pregnant teenager, the only question that remains for me is how long it will be before we take that big hit that ends it all. Or have we already?

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