What "Childhood"?
I heard today that Miley Cyrus is still catching flack over her "scandalous" photos. Honestly, I don't know why it's STILL IN THE NEWS. so she showed her bra or whatever. Come on, Vanessa whatever-her-face-is had naked pictures floating around. How many people out there can say that they've never taken pictures they later regretted?
She's [Miley] YOUNG. She's GOING to make some dumb moves. It's called "GROWING UP."
Why is she a role model, anyway? Is she even old enough to DRIVE? She's still a kid herself. She's still supposed to be looking up to people, not being a teen idol, or a pop princess or whatever. It was dumb on her part, true. She should know she's in the spotlight 24-7 and that the media never sleeps. I mean, she's in HOLLYWOOD. (For clarification, when I say "Hollywood," I'm not necessarily defining the area in California. I'm referring to the general mass spectacle surrounding celebrities wherever they happen to be located.) Then again, by being in Hollywood, look at who she's SURROUNDED by. She's still trying to be NORMAL, and her actions ARE normal (and evenly fairly tame) in present-day American society. The more scantily clad the body and sexier the pose, the better.
I almost feel sorry for the celebrities trying to grow up under the scrutiny of the American public. And yet, I don't. They have the opportunity to make changes to the American views of what is considered "normal." If celebrities started dying their bodies indigo and speaking Klingon, three-quarters of the the American people would be wandering around various shades of purple and speaking in random tongues, beginning with the children.
Kids today are more tainted and carnal by fifth grade than my generation was by our senior year of high school. And it's happened so quickly. I'm really and truly frightened by this realization because it may sound like some old fuddy-duddy writing this, but in truth I'm only twenty. I was a fifth grader barely a decade ago. The society as decayed that much in ten short years. Girls, some not even out of fifth grade, are having babies. Funny, we thought boys had cooties in elementary school. I didn't realize that "boys have cooties" translated into "boys have penises." Silly, naive little me!
Childhood, time of blissful innocence and carefree joy, I mourn your passing. As generation of children having children beget the future of our country, you, precious Childhood, will have a place in American culture no longer.