Remember how they were saying for the longest time that “it takes a village” to raise your children. Pardon my French, but the village is f*ck’d. The problem with ‘kids’ today is all because of the ‘village’. The village is evil and corrupts our children’s lives. The village turns innocence into promiscuity. The village needs to burn.

The “village” as was proclaimed are all the other people involved in your children’s lives besides yourself. School teachers, friends, television and media. Everything they are exposed to during waking and even sleeping hours will have a profound effect on their perspective and outlook on things.

The problem is the “village” includes all the bad influences in society. Sex and drugs on television. Harsh expletives in the music they listen to on the public airways, and the language and intent of the lyrics and what they actually are saying in those songs. It’s no wonder 8-year-olds, yes: 8-year-olds talk about “humping” and “banging” and such. I worked for a Boys and Girls club for a time and trust me, it’s really there.

In the end, places like Second Life and it’s seedier locations are really nothing special. it’s just the same crap that happens in Real Life. The only difference is: it’s not hidden away in some corner where everyone else pretends to not know it’s really there.

And the so-called “main-stream media” is no different. The problem with the so-called ‘main-stream media’ is that they are losing credibility faster than the speed of light. They are laughable. And yet, they are giving new parents advice on how they should watch-out for their kids. Take the following quote from the Los Angeles Times:

Tips for online safety – Los Angeles Times
“Don’t let your children on sites such as Second Life unless they are old enough to handle adults on their own.”

Okay, what is wrong with this statement?

If it doesn’t jump out and slap you in the face, then perhaps you are the target audience of the “main-stream media”.

In which case, I then pity you.



2 Responses to “The “Village” Sucks. Burn it Down Now.”  

  1. It is fun to watch how main-stream media believes its own lies. Sl is becoming a synonym for a nasty place on the Internet. And that journalist probably has no idea that children are not allowed on the grid. Nor that SL is more child-safe than Google. But it is common to mention SL if one talks about dirty places. It doesn’t matter that MySpace is more dangerous and that FaceBook collect all the data they can.

  2. Oh that is so true. So painfully true.

    In fact, think of any ’sex’ term, legal or not and kick it into practically any search engine and Second Life will be so far off the radar as to be completely invisible.

    However, it gets to the very point that yes: only adults are allowed. There is a Teen Grid, but the media seems to have missed that idea completely.

    The problem with main stream media is that they just don’t do any real fact-checking on such subjects as these any more.

    I genuinely believe, Dandellion, that you, I and most other bloggers do far more fact-checking than any of the so-called main-stream news outlets with regard to ‘fuzzy’ or ‘opinion news’.


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