Programming To Fail

I have often commented on how today's youth are getting harder and harder to work with.  Not just because I am getting older and curmudgeonie but because youth no longer bear the hallmarks of what they used to be.  Attention spans almost no longer exist, respect for anyone other than themselves, lacking in even basic self-control!  You can blame the educational system, the lack of recognition of God in this country, television, whatever!  But, the net result is a sickness amongst our youth.

Take the movie "Kick Ass" as a basis for this thought line.  Here is a movie in which we have one foul mouthed little girl, certainly I have heard worse language from the youth here and once I heard far worse from a teacher in her classroom as I walked down the hall of a local school.  Yeah, verbal insults and vulgarity are almost a norm.  If I visit the MySpace pages for any of the kids from my latest Sunday School class,  they are almost entirely composed of vulgarity as they communicate with one another!  Seems butter would not melt in anyone's mouth these days.....

The story to the movie surrounds the antics of a teenage boy, well here it gets hard to explain him, as I am only coming up with some vulgarities myself to describe him.....  Inappropriate would seem the best description of this creation.  He embraces all that is vulgar and presented as "just normal life".  Utter stupidity would also be a good description.  Have I known teenagers he is reflective of?  Heck, yes!  And many of them ended up in jail or in rehab sections of hospitals.  You can not be that stupid, that God-less and manage to actually succeed in life.

But as I thought on what the film was showing - it is communicating a message of what is a norm for youth: lack of respect for elders, lack of respect for anyone other than yourself, that sex equals love, if you can imagine it - it is attainable, that using others for your own end is acceptable, etc, etc, etc!

We are talking the ultimate attainment in secular humanism here.  If it feels good, hey it must be good, right?  Where sexual identity and freedom are just whims with no consequences. Where actions bear consequences from which can not be learned from.  Where theft, murder, property destruction is perfectly okay - as long as you are able to justify it to yourself.  And of course, let us not forget, that murder is easy and makes you feel better in the long run.

Want to know why the Western Culture of youth is so challenged?  Watch this movie and see why.

Oh yeah, it is rated R, so no one under 17 is supposed to be there, right?  It is only a guess based on sizes but there were quite a few in there from 8 to 13 years old.  But, from 13 to 19 would have been the general population of the theater that night.

And honestly, this 55 year old did not have to have seen it either.  I should have walked out 5 minutes into the movie and demanded my money back for misrepresentation of the film.....