Why today's youth culture has gone insane

World Net Daily ^ | Jan 16th, 2003 | David Kupliean

[missyme]

Remember in the classic, biblical epic films of the 1950s, how Sodom and Gomorrah were portrayed? Drunken men with multiple piercings and bright red robes, with one loose woman under each arm, cavorting in orgiastic revelry against a background of annoying, mosquito-like music?

Maybe a bone through the nose as well? Hollywood took pains to depict these lost souls in the most debauched and irredeemable manner – to justify their subsequent destruction with fire and brimstone as punishment for their great sinfulness.

Guess what? Those Hollywood depictions don't even begin to capture the shocking reality of what is going on right here in America's culture today – I mean, they're not even close.

First of all, there's sex. Very simply, there seem to be neither boundaries nor taboos any more when it comes to sex. Anything goes – from heterosexual to homosexual to bi-, trans-, poly-, and you-don't-want-to-know sexual experiences. Sex has become a ubiquitous, cheap, meaningless quest for ever-greater thrills. As Dr. Laura Schlessinger quipped, the guy no longer has to lie to the gal, pretend he likes her or take her out to dinner to get sex – he just has to show up.

Moreover, with the evolution of online pornography, every type of sexual experience has literally been shoved under the noses of millions of Americans against their will, who find their e-mail in-boxes filled with hard-core sexual images. As a result, a recent urgent plea from well-known evangelist Chuck Swindoll lamented that one out of two American churchgoers today is caught up with Internet pornography.

What about body piercing? It has progressed from traditional earrings for females, to earrings for males (eager to display their "feminine side" which the '60 cultural revolution sold them), to multiple piercings for both males and females in literally every part of the body – the tongue, nose, eyebrow, lip, cheek, navel, breasts, genitals – again, things you don't really want to know.

It's the same progression to extremes with tattooing. But why stop with "conventional" piercing and tattooing? Ritual scarification and 3D-art implants are big. So are genital beading, stretching and cutting, transdermal implants, scrotal implants, tooth art and facial sculpture.

How about tongue splitting? How about branding? How about amputations? That's right – amputations. Some people find these activities a real "turn-on."

There are no bounds – no lower limits. Whatever you can imagine, even for a second in the darkest recesses of your mind, know that someone somewhere is actually doing it, praising it, and drawing others into it via the Internet.

Strangest of all is the fact that any behavior, any belief – no matter how obviously insane – is rationalized so it sounds reasonable, even spiritual. Satanism itself, and especially its variant, the worship of Lucifer (literally, "Angel of Light") can be made to sound almost enlightened – of course, only in a perverse way. But if you were sufficiently confused, rebellious and full of rage – if you had been set up by cruelty or hypocrisy (or both) to rebel against everything "good" – the forbidden starts to be mysteriously attractive.

[Elliott Jackalope]

Sodom and Gomorrah were supposedly destroyed for the sins of sexual depravity (Sodom) and greed and selfishness (Gomorrah). Yet, San Francisco and Silicon Valley still stand, untouched and undisturbed.

It seems to me that The Almighty owes Sodom and Gomorrah a BIG apology at this point.

[dr_who_2]

It isn't just the youth.

[swarthyguy]

Adults?

[Pahuanui]

I blame Paraguay.

[missyme]

San Francisco and Silicon Valley are definetly the sister of Soddom and Gommorah with many cities behind them..

[BiffWondercat]

People are making money offa this stuff, we call it capitalism. They are NOT kids, they are MARKETS!

Corporations and governments can raise your kids much better than you ever can! Who are you to question the market! Communist! Democrat! Liberal!!!!

[freebilly]

Click here for full article

It's a good one.

[missyme]

Very True
But Adults who fit in this category are proably just considered "Perverts"

[missyme]

Thanks!
I just did not want to bore some with a Novel!
Thanks for doing that.

[luckystarmom]

Silicon Valley is no San Francisco. I live here, and it is very conservative where I live. There are lots of church going families. Lots of SAHM. The kids don't dress strangely.

[dark_lord]

If your only view of the world is via the WWW, TV, or other media, then you may think this is prevalent. But -- if you actually go outside and meet people, very little of this is occuring. Yeah, some guys have earrings, and a lot of the younger (more foolish) gals have tattoos.

The sky is not, however, falling.

[swarthyguy]

>>But Adults who fit in this category are proably just considered "Perverts"

Or Marketing Executives.

[freedumb2003]

I blame Paraguay.

It's Bush's fault.

[freebilly]

But -- if you actually go outside and meet people, very little of this is occuring.

You obviously don't live in Northern California....

[squidly]

Agreed. Watching MTV all the time can make one think that that's the way the world is, but it isn't that way. Some part of it is, though.

[dr_who_2]

..or the loving, understanding parents of perverts at least.

[missyme]

Some Rap Artist on CNN says that Howard Dean is appealing to today's youth as Bobby Kennedy was appealing to the youth of his time.
BARF!

[Age of Reason]

Strangest of all is the fact that any behavior, any belief – no matter how obviously insane – is rationalized so it sounds reasonable, even spiritual.

Except the belief that a woman should wait for marriage.

[missyme]

Doesn't that stand for "Music Trash Videos" ?