17 girls from a high-school Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts, all younger then 16, are pregnant. The girls arranged this “group activity” – they all decided to get pregnant together. So now this city of 30,000 is wondering what is going on and where this baby boom is coming from. Well, if anbody went to cinema once in past six months they would know - the Oscar winning movie “Juno” couldn’t be missed.
Are young people really so alienated from life that they simply copy everything they see on big screen, no matter how serious the consequences are? Do they really blindly believe the things they see on the big screen? Maybe I should finally put on those red shoes and hit the yellow road…..
Tags: Commentary, Feminism, Media, Sex
Well it would not be the first time that people follow fads from popular culture in a self-destructive way. After “The Sorrows of Young Werther” apparently 2000 people committed suicide… in 1772! If we compare the general quality of the works a ratio of 2000:17 and then factoring in the relation of suicide:pregnancy as 20000:17 (I assumed that most people rather killed themselves today rather than having to bring up 10 kids) the issue seems appropriately showing the quality of “Juno” compared to Goethe…
And young people can’t do anything else than copy. That’s how fashion is made. And that’s where the saying is coming from: It does not make sense to try to educate your kids, sooner or later they will just copy whatever you do anyhow.