February 25, 2006
A Greensboro, NC mother says her daughter was exposed to "A lot of pornography, Goth stuff, linking to voodooism, witchcraft, dark suicidal stuff."
And she's not the only minor or nominal adult to run afoul of parents and authorities recently thanks to MySpace and other blogs. Has online whining journaling become the new violent video game (which was the new Dungeons and Dragons which was the new...etc.)?
I imagine that there's a bunch of stories more sordid that I completely missed. Also, I didn't link to MyDeathSpace.com or any of the more famous murderers and suicides on MySpace or LJ.
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So, she finally started monitoring her daughter's use of teh Intarweb. Yay for parents getting hit with a clue-by-four. At least the first one has a happy ending. Would that people wise up before plugging in the cable modem. -
I wonder if the mother talked to her daughter to see what her take was on the sites she visited. If she shined it all on as dumb, she was raised with some sense. If she went too far in exploring the wonders of the internet, he mother should probably have found out sooner - or set up the computer so that the bad stuff didn't show up. And to have talked to her about why she objected to all that. Parents have a responsibility, yo! There has always been stuff out there in the world at large that many parents would like to protect their children from, but isn't it their job to do that on a personal basis? The internet isn't going to adjust it's overall self because kids are exploring. My daughter got plenty of Goth and witchcraft stuff in school back in the early 90s, with no aid from the internet. On the other hand, I did beatnik and hippie stuff while in college, where my parents had no ability to check it out. Oh, and, later, I read Anton Levay's writings about satanism, but I didn't sacrifice anything, or try to conjure a demon. (Though, I should reveal that my daughter and her friends sarcrificed a carrot during a spring solice.) I read Henry Miller's works avidly, but didn't move to Paris and fuck everyone in sight. I wonder how old her daughter is. Goth stuff seems too outdated to have much eclat for today's teens - and the suicide cults have also pretty much seen their day. So, maybe the mother needs to try really hard to understand what's going in the this century.
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One of the famous ancient Greek dudes pontificated greatly on the topic, and it essentially translated as "Kids these days are running wild! And their music, it's just noise!". Apparently it all worked out in the end.
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Yeah, I know the quote to which you refer, but I can't recall which dude it was. Aristotle or someone. Be ironic if it was Socrates.
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Though there is a fair amount of disagreement, it's supposedly from Socrates:
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BTW, I got that excerpt from a much longer and very interesting thread at Google Answers.
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Yeah, well, after a few Jell-O shots William H. Patty'll say anything for a kiss and a cuddle.
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This worked the way things are supposed to work. The parent kept an eye on her child, and made her own decision as to what is and what is not appropriate. She didn't file a lawsuit, she didn't try to shut down MySpace, she just wanted other parents to learn from her experience. I wish more people would handle themselves like that. I'm getting a little bored with groups like the PMRC insisting that everything in America be dumbed down to accomodate the hypothetical unsupervised 12-year-old. They could learn from Mrs. Westholder.
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Jatayu das, that remains to be seen. I suspect that she's waiting till she gets a posse together. Then the villagers will storm with their lit torches and pointy pitchforks.