Pride costs nothing

Pride costs nothing.
By Libby Sinclair

My blood is an honour and I honour my blood.
Shadows of strangers walk beside me as my spirit shall guide those that come after me.
I exist thanks to my ancestors who through sheer willpower, quick wits, luck and ingenuity gave me the inheritance to excel on this earth. My bloodline survived wars, famine, disease and natural disasters to hand down strong genes and knowledge so the destiny can continue. I give thanks to this everyday and do my upmost to make them as proud of myself as I am of them. All I have that is important from them is their blood and legacy and that is all that matters,

Sadly youth today don’t get it. They think they make their own legends and have never been shown who their true heroes are. Unfortunately the powers that be seem hell bent on their own pathetic attempts at crowd manipulation for their own agendas that common sense is out the window. While Helen Clark is worried about obese, unfit children and wants to put a tax on fatty foods so the crumbling health system is eased a little. She should be more concerned about the mental diet a child today is being served up daily. Now I would just like a minute to point out that I’m far from a prude and do enjoy a good lash of rude comedy (British is the best) and do possess and if provoked can let out a stream of obscenities to embarrass a sailor. But I am an educated adult and having just turned forty I can honestly say that television today is very different from when I was a child or teenager. If you have sky television you can be treated to foul language and nudity any time of the day, just flicking through the channels can often be like a game of Russian roulette. Then you have all the trashy shows exploiting the weak and stupid to get high ratings at the expense of dignity and taste. Do we really need reality shows on the porn industry? The worst part is that these shows and similar are packaged as fun and career options for our children who are being raised in such dangerous times as today. Kids aren’t allowed to stay innocent for to long as industry has them ear tagged from birth as the new wave of profit. Starting with fad must have toys, then to designer clothes, high-tech gadgets then into the seedy side of life to try and fund this must have lifestyle.

Today I was talking to a young mum she was moaning about the price of ‘playboy’ merchandise. It then transpired that she was purchasing these items for her thirteen year old daughter, I nearly chocked and left saddened and angry. I still don’t know if I’m more angry at the mums ignorance or the stations that have to import such crap as the ’Playboy Mansion’ as entertainment that can be viewed so easily by impressionable empty minds. That show is just like a drug pusher, only dealing in sleaze. Take the goggles off young mum Heff is and old perve, his girlfriends high paid prostitutes and the age gap is a mirror image of paedophilia. This mother in the very near future will be wallowing in where she went wrong. When this child she lavished expensive but tacky gifts to show her love for her goes right off the rails and ends up pregnant as she was never shown the right path to follow.

But a brighter note has happened to me. I did witness some two young teenagers busking outside a mall and they were playing violin. I didn’t even hesitate to go out of my way to add to their takings. These lovely examples of the human race really made my day when they even stopped playing to say thanks. Impeccable manners and courtesy are seldom seen in to days youth, there is no question to how these girls are being raised. Their parents have obviously had a fair share of commonsense that will stay installed in their children.

Television and violent videos and games are abusing young minds it’s no wonder that China has banned certain American shows and is concentrating on promoting their own culture. Shame that won’t happen any where in the west as the mighty dollar rules. Maybe they could start a sleaze tax so that at the end of the day all those that have been sucked up and had their lives screwed up by following a non existent barometer of excitement and fulfilment seen through popular media, can be housed and looked after in their old age as they never learnt how to pay the rent other than letting someone else screw them first.

The television is an unnecessary evil in the home and must be treated with caution at all times when in the presence of young minds. Talking to your kids about real issues and installing their own self assurance is all that is needed to stop our future generations having Brittany Spears clones as their hero instead of real people that spur the future out of the bonds that bind creativity and free thinking individuals from their real destiny as positive leaders.