Priorities and Mindedness

•UPDATED 6/20/15

Overview:

★Socially Conforming & Cliché "tru-isms": the desire by the populace to feel

  somehow entitled to enforce & control Other Humans in general (the media/

  celebrities to reflect their own values despite that the thing/behaviour that

  which they wish to control is subjectively 'offensive' (to them) & is ultimately

  pretty harmless otherwise.

Priorities and Mindedness: Sex, Drugs, & Role Models

My thoughts re: Miley Cyrus' Two new songs - One's kinda sexy (gasp!)

& the other (We Can't Stop) references Molly (MDMA).

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3634422/

Miley was, of course, questioned by the incredibly NOSY media. Her response, In My Honest Opinion, was intelligent and refreshing.

I rather agree with her opinion on how messed-up the world is due to fear. There's a predominantly archaic, outdated, puritanical, & dirty view re: love, human sexuality, desire (especially feminine desire). Socially, sex is deemed to be - ironically enough - a terrifying threat to humanity (v. the somehow less socially threatening glorification of violence, wars, guns, etc..., seemingly considered so banal by an oversaturated western society that violent media & actions are peppered throughout many places where sexuality would be considered to be exceptionally inappropriate.).

I was never a huge Miley fan - if at all - & neither were my kids, really. I'd tried to encourage an appreciation for particularly & exceptionally creative music as an acceptable alternative to the massively-appealing-&-frequently-cookie-cutter-esque Corporate/Monied/Disney (or whoever) Machine - the over-produced & heavily distributed (hence "favoured) "superstar-making" melodious opioids.

Miley's showing, however, that she's quite a bit more than a soon-to-collapse former child star. She made a lot of sense - a likely testament to good parenting & innate intelligence/maturity. I have such hopes for this newest generation of burgeoning adults despite a flawed western education system & rampant social injustices (though my beloved science & anthropology are indicating in tandem that society's overall woes are steadily & measurably lessening with each new generation!).

As for the horrified parent and media response re: referencing drugs... Drugs do exist. Listening to a song that references drugs with your child can be an organic way of discussing drugs, addictions, pharmaceuticals, medicinal marijuana, etc, with him/her. It's a great way to tackle sociological realities:

  •many people experience no inclination to use drugs

  •many people were so inclined & have used previously - or still partake - but

   just aren't neurologically predisposed to developing an addiction

  •some people have TERRIBLE, insatiable, & potentially-lethal addictions

  •science asserts that addiction is a disease which is likely fueled by a

   complex amalgam of ingredients:

      °physiology, sociology, economy, anthropology, experientially

       circumstantial history, & psychology.

If someone fears that their child is SO incredibly malleable/weak that a Miley song will send them tumbling into an abyss fraught with back alley 'handies' for contaminated crank, then their child needs parents who'll make a better & more enthusiastic crack at what'd been passing for parenting 'til then.

"Oh, but Miley Cyrus is a Role Model!" (AKA, "How dare she exist

without thinking of my {anonymous} child first?").

That's shite.

The entertainment world - agents, producers, studios, captains of frivolous/fun industry - have their OWN agenda (primarily a desire for the acquisition & accumulation of vast wealth. Those affiliated with such an industry will therefore often behave as short-sighted little greedy money monsters:

  •Scout, Sign, & Push the Far Too Young 'til they're Far Too Rich (still young!)

  •ensure that they'll keep you in high esteem (& thus generous) by offering

   Far Too Little Supervision.

  •The Far Too Rich will lose their sense of self whilst likely gaining a sense

   of entitlement;

  •they'll feel lonely as so few others can truly relate;

   they'll fear that they've ceased to exist as an actual human because

   the media and the public have laid claims upon them as an object,

   a Brand, a nostalgic symbol of their own lives

  •they'll grow up in the public eye, scrutinized by much of the planet through

   the paparazzi's subjective & edit-able lens (& as is common, that lens

   isn't gonna pay for itself)

  •they'll be traveling, frequently far from true friends & loving family for

   excessive lengths of time & will often find comfort amongst the

   be adulating yes-men & fair-weather-ers who surround them as they

   perform mental backflips to forget that their own posse's rather more

   vampiric than genuinely friendly. These vampires ply them with

   compliments rather than guidance in order to maintain their esteemed

   place on the inside, & their ability to introduce & acquire drugs (purity

   of substance be damned) in order to placate a sad/lonely celeb is

   unrivaled.

  

THEN (many) parents - influenced by the social clichés which fall stupidly and cyclically from the lips of many a misguided/vapid media darling, no doubt - expect these Far Too Rich (& still very young!) to be role models for their own children? The same children that are so precious that they're not even allowed to be babysat by your best friend from childhood because she's made too many poor fiancé choices?

This world adores its entertainers, but it also waits, watches, bides...

When a beloved rising star patronises a corner shop that sells marijuana-leaf keychains, don a fantastically weird hat, or repeats an inspirational quote without realising it was 1st coined by Pol Pot, they're shoved brutally from the pedestal by the same mobs that placed them there involuntarily to begin with.

You know who's an ideal a role model for kids? Their parent(s).

Quit letting the (often) terrible, recycled & unoriginal, formulaic, canned-laughter-drenched, racist, sexist, size-ist, & violent programming drivel serve as the very foundation for your child's world view.

It's up to you, educators, books, nature, genuine friends, etc... to influence & shape your child. Not Justin Beiber, Amanda Bynes, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, or Miley Cyrus.

Amber Amber at 12:50