After hearing about the pig-on-parade performance by Britney Spears last night at the MTV Music Awards, I couldn't help but feel sorrow for this obviously miserable human being. For the past several years, this girl has been the a prime target for many who just love to heap mountains of criticism on her. Don't get me wrong here, most of it has been very well deserved. It's just that if you look at her today and read about all of the self made misery she has in her life, you just can't help but wonder what drove an innocent young girl from a southern Baptist community to become the pop music industry's poster child for out of control moral depravity.
As a child, Britney was a talented gymnast in state competitions, a performer in local dance revues and a singer in her local Baptist church choir. At eight years old, she tried out for Disney's "The New Micky Mouse Club" and after studying performing arts in NYC, she eventually made it on the show. A few years later she was signed on by a record company and began her moral downward slide. Once she turned eighteen, she became instant fodder for millions of horny males spending hours on line wacking off to photos of her in numerous sexually provocative poses. If I remember correctly, she was even reported once as being the most Googled name on the internet. The racier she posed, the more attention she got. The more attention she got, the more money she and her keepers made. Quite literally, she became a multimedia whore.
This is by no means a unique story. On the contrary, this allure of rising to fame and fortune seems to be the result of typical baiting tactics used by the entertainment industry. Record companies pimp these young starlets onto the emerging generations hoping to reap millions in profits and keep fresh talent fueling their genre of perversion through music videos, teen magazines and television programing that pushes the envelope on FCC regulation on a daily basis.
Now, it must be said that by no means am I claiming to be some virgin eared, doctor of morality. Quite the opposite. When I was in high school, I got into some seriously satanic music and then I got involved in the punk rock scene. Eventually I grew up after some hard knocks but never have I ever seen so mush focus on sexuality from the entertainment industry. Where the punk scene was all about in-your-face anger, the pop scene is all about in-your-face SEX... and lots of it! As a parent of four with two being very young and impressionable girls, I am genuinely concerned and apprehensive about what kind of sleaze influences their lives - REASON #1,536 FOR HOMESCHOOLING :)
The result of years of marketing this in-your-face sex to our kids has become more and more evident as we see a sharp increase in the number of statutory rapes, child abductions, sexual assaults, and child pornography. Every time I see little school girls (not just high school kids) dressed like prostitutes, I can't help but think about where they learned to show such little respect for themselves. Yes, I blame the Britney Spears of the world, but even-more-so I blame the industry that corrupted their souls and bread them for sexual entertainment in the first place... all for the almighty dollar.
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them, And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:1-6 Douay-Rheims)
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