Killer Culture

David Kupelian's Killer Culture. Wow. Kupelian starts out talking about some basic rebelious behaviors. Different ways teens dress and talk. The type of music and culture teens are exposed to including rap, hip-hop, and MTV. The writing builds to a climax of terror and hoplessness as Kupelian describes teens who actively try to get aids and who hang from celings by hooks poked through their flesh. I don't understand what the big suprise is. There have always been a small number of wierd crazy people on the planet, I'm talking about people who hang from meathooks and get AIDS on purpose. We have also always had serial killers, rapists, murderers, adulterers, and people who abuse children. These are all terrible things, but things that have existed since recorded history began. I see the argument that modern media can reach more people and make some undesirable behaviors, fashion, and rebelion seem mainstream and in some cases it does, but Kupelian's solution is laughable. Kupelian suggests creating a "new" culture for our children by homeschooling them and sheltering them from all of the bad things in the world. What the heck does he think will happen when the kids turn 18 and move out of their protective bubble? God forbid they wear baggy pants or get their belly button pierced!!! The world might end. I agree, in part, that sometimes the media goes to far, but I totally disagree with Kupelian's solution. Children need to be taught to be virtuas, couragious, moral, and honest with themselves and others. How can we truly teach them those qualities by sheltering them from the world they will eventually live in. In my opinion segregating kids from the outside world teaches them only to run away, to be ashamed of thier beliefs and to fear people who are different than them. It doesn't teach them how to stand tall and stand up for what they believe in. It teaches them to hide and fear.