Blog Assignment 1

Since the U.S. economy is based on spending I would say yes it is definitely patriotic to shop. Spending is what ensures jobs and ensures enterprise. The tax that you get charged for on every dollar you spend goes to help governmental agencies like the police that are vital to our country. Spending provides job security for the people working in the business you are spending at. Buying locally helps out your own place of residency and keeps money inside your town or city. Spending keeps everything going and actually helps when times are tough. Holding your money only makes times like now worse because companies go bankrupt, employees lose jobs and money disappears.

Change is needed in pop culture soon because I think the morals and ethics in this country are declining along with schools and the economy and pop cultures influence has a major role in this issue. Music is turning into sex, drugs, and basically womanizing. Young girls are listening to pop music portraying a girl half naked, drunk and ready for sexual intercourse as a desire for males and making horrible decisions. Young girls are getting pregnant and younger ages and STD’s are becoming an enormous problem. Television is also steadily going down hill with explicit language and sex being thrown around as casually as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Little children are cursing and have a complete understanding of what sex is at ages far too young to have an understanding of these things. Commercials are telling parents to let their kids be who they want to be and not to force anything on them. Parenting is pointing a kid in the right direction while preparing them for the real world. Letting your kid wear whatever they want and have an attitude whenever they want gives them the chance to consume drugs and alcohol underneath their guardians nose because parents are trying to be hands off because of what the tube is saying. I understand this is a free country but at what point is enough, enough? Maybe when junior high kids are getting pregnant and kindergartners are smoking marijuana somebody might say something. I say the people that are defined as part of pop culture need to have a soul search and see who they are affecting. Some sense of morality needs to be found inside are countries pop culture. I find myself cursing more than normal after listening to an explicit album or watching a rated “R” movie. If I shy away from viewing or including these things in my daily life I think I can be more moral based and have a more pure mind in sense because I sure as hell wont be allowing my son who is only two months old to watch or listen to the filth out now. I can only imagine at what point it will be at when he is in high school.

The internet has single handedly changed the entire world. People can use chat rooms to talk to anyone like a phone conversation. People can trade with one another through eBay or sell anything they please. The music industry has found major artists through sites such as YouTube and MySpace. The internet has made it possible for countries to easily communicate, has made information such as health concerns openly available, and changed schooling forever. The internet has been an extremely positive influence aside from maybe porn and people looking up how to build a bomb, but other than some inevitable kinks the internet has added convenience and security to the whole world.