The recent Grammy Awards and Oscar presentations in California show an alarmingly downward spiraling entertainment industry standard. The Grammys recognized a song “Not Like Us” as the song of the year. If you look at the lyrics of this recording (I can’t call it a “song”) you realize how far society’s standards for entertainment have fallen. Every four letter word and the derogatory term for African Americans are used repeatedly in the recording. It is an abomination for anyone who has any standards at all. But it also reflects poorly on what parents allow their children (at an impressionable age) to accept as common everyday communication. The Oscars show no better standards by awarding the best picture of the year to a movie that is filled with unpleasantness and seems to glamorize all the wrong things that we have tried over the years to label as inappropriate. If this trend continues, both the “music” world and the movie industry will continue to display graphic violence casual sex, power hungry individuals that succeed and set all kinds of inappropriate thoughts in motion among our younger generation. Someone needs to say “Stop!!!, this is not the direction we want to take the American Society.” But, until that someone steps forward we are on a path that will lead us into a very dark place. Remember these are the themes that will resonate with our younger generation all throughout their lives. Is this what we as an American Society want?
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