Britain’s Daily Mail has an interesting piece in today’s paper putting forth the idea that kids growing up online is creating a new generation of adults who lack any sense of shame or morality.
It is precisely this erosion of the boundaries of privacy and the absence of taboo that is so shocking about today’s teenagers. Modern technology allows children access to images and information we, as children, could scarcely have imagined.
You want to see a naked girl? Click on to the Internet. You want to hear exactly what your friend got up to the night before? Log on to Facebook. Not only will their boasts tell you that they are recovering from the excesses of the night before, there’ll be the pictures to prove it.
In today’s world of fast information and access to all areas, too many – particularly the young – are having to up the stakes to chase their particular dragon and get the high they crave.
Sometimes, they’re so busy creating drama and tension in the movie of their own lives that they’ve forgotten to be human beings.
A video I was told about shows how far things have gone: a dying woman lay inert on a street while a man urinated on her, saying as he did so: ‘This is a YouTube moment.’
When I was young, secretly looking up the word penis in the dictionary and sniggering was how we got our thrills. This is small beer for today’s children: the girls especially, who, where once they might have struck a pose in front of mirrors in the privacy of their own bedrooms, now exhibit themselves scantily clad in hookers’ poses in photo albums on social networking sites.
I actually agree with the article for the most part. Regardless of whether or not you think some of the stuff young people are doing online is bad — you can’t deny that it’s happening. Reality TV shows and YouTube have made the desire for fame more intense than ever. For a hot young girl, the quickest way to achieve fame is by getting naked. I can remember being in Jr. High wanting to see various girls naked, but in reality you knew it was never going to happen.
That’s not the case anymore. Girls wouldn’t get naked or act publicly promiscuous out of fear of being labeled a slut. Now, there’s not really a danger of being labeled a slut. And even if you are who really gives a shit? This has created an atmosphere with no consequences for any action. In the absence of consequences, girls and boys feel the freedom to act out however they want. If that means getting blown in class while the teacher is looking the other way and then putting it on Myspace then so be it.
College kids have always treated college like Hedonism III, but it was never put on film and then distributed out of fear that it may harm job prospects in the future. That too is disappearing as our culture changes. In another few years it will be considered odd for a girl not to have nude pictures of herself floating around the net somewhere. The more common it becomes the less it matters to employers. The younger people entering the workforce now who’ve grown up apart of all this will be the employers in a few years and will care even less about that kind of shit.
I think the evidence is clear that we’re starting to breed a generation of amoral people. Is that a good thing or bad thing? I don’t know — you be the judge.
The one good thing is the quality of porn stars we’re getting. The 18-year old sluts deciding to enter porn just keep getting better and better.
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