I Want My MTV [Back]

I have often wondered what happened to all the activism of youth.. I mean look at how many young people voted for the shrub in the last election...

I am so confused

Apparently, most of the youth in our nation has been hypnotized by the corporations into wondering which pair of sneekers is "in" this week.

I also remember those premier days of MTV with nostalgia... it was a great innovative idea then, but now it has been hijacked by the lackeys of the fascist right.

Unfortunately, the administration has become such a behemouth that everyone just turns their collective back and hopes that it just goes away. Of course it never will, but while it has become "unpatriotic" to dissent, it has also become hip to conform.

It's so far gone now, that they don't even realize it. It's really depressing to see what's transformed a great nation of original thinkers into an incorporated band of sheep. I am deeply saddened by the whole process, but at the same time, a glimmer of hope arises, thanks to Trent and company...

Peace,
=RD=

MTV?!?

Speaking as an official youth, if I could pick one thing on this earth that is not inspiring to me, it would either be MTV or those cans of peanut butter and jelly. As in, where both the peanut butter and the jelly are combined in one container. That speaks volumes about the laziness of the average American.

But MTV is roughly as uninspiring to me.

What is inspiring about corporate execs feeding us fashion and politics and celebrities, continuously bleeding us of our hard-earned youthful money? When was it ever ispiring? What did this former army of youth ever do?

I know not.

Meanwhile, my friends and I, with great help from JPII, have turned into a force to be reckoned with. No to "rail against authority" or to gain power and influence or any such rot, but to build up what is downtrodden, and fix what is broken. We're out convincing our friends to keep their unwanted pregnancies and helping them with their kids once their born. Thanks mainly to your generation of sex without consequences, and ousting of morality, we get to deal with the divorces and affairs. We're taking over, and giving the homeless a place to stay, and worrying about our fellow man, and learning from your mistakes, and going to church. Not because we're sheep, but because we finally escaped from the flock, and we want to, of our own free will.

If there is something more revolutionary and counter-cultral than that, I've never heard of it.