Youth Knowledge Gaps Leading to Cultural Catastrophe

Monitoring blog traffic here and elsewhere, it is stunning to note that some of the more critical posts -- those concerning the looming cultural crises of our age -- go virtually unread while every prurient reference to, say, Britney Spears' bra size gets hundreds of hits.

With the blogging audience primarily a young one, and highly sought after by consumer goods manufacturers, it might be advisable for these readwers to start gaining familiarity with such stories as:

-- Iran's rapidly growing nuclear capabilities.
-- The U.S. quagmire in Iraq.
-- Real estate prices peaking and even falling.
-- The onrushing immigration calamity.
-- The prevalance of youth crime and drugs.
-- Deterioration of self-reliant family units.
-- Elimination of old-age pensions.
-- Rising fuel prices.

The list could continue ad infinitem. The point here is that young people have no clue as to their position in the world and how their marketing muscle alone can dictate the direction of world events. Instead they (and, unfortunately, their parents) have their heads in the sand and know little more than how to get to the store, watch TV, surf Myspace.com and listen to brain-rattling and profanity-laced crud they call "music" while failing to finish high school and even consider college or the military.

It is a cultural recipe for a disaster of mega-proportions. America is losing its grip on virtually everything and unless young Americans get their act together, the fabric of society is at risk.

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