Blind Society and Lemon Wedgies
Earlier this month news about teens in Florida and in other states like Arizona having incidents of violence both aggravated and premeditated. These acts of violence according to news coverage present only a small fraction of the truth about bullying.
Society prefers to turn a blind eye to not appear too fanatic and overprotective over children. We have been numbed by lots of things maybe because we've experienced a lower form of it and have survived.
Turning a blind eye, society has gone into suspended animation the older generation thinking it's not that bad while the kids think our parents did too. The difference of then and now is that parents were less busy, had better means of living and a belief in discipline (the right amount an kind). Kids before had their parents as examples and influence, a bad apple never fell far from a good tree most of the time. Today, we have all these good apples put in a bushel of bad ones and end up with a rotten bunch all together.
Bullying is an act justified by anything under the sun, with only one goal: domination and power to rule. It takes a responsive group of people to fix this. The responsible society is made up of parents, school, community, county, state, government ans most especially the media, no one's hands go untainted and exempted.
Never did like the Altoids Lemon Wedgie print ad…