By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--March 1, 2010
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Today, though, young people regard fame as a birthright. They have a sense of entitlement the size of one of my houses. I recently heard about the work of an American psychologist who discovered that in the Fifties only 12 per cent of youngsters agreed with the statement, ‘I am an important person’. By the end of the Eighties, that figure had risen to 80 per cent. I think we can all guess what it is now. There is an epidemic of fame-obsessed youngsters – aged between ten and 25 – who wrongly believe celebrity is a shortcut to wealth and happiness, and who are convinced it will bring them everything they want. An entire generation that doesn’t understand that nothing worth having comes easily. — Sharon Osbourne, The Daily MailThe real problem stems from these kids now being in charge of the entertainment industry. The think the juvenile is hip, they think bad taste is cutting edge, and there’s not much that can be done about it outside of raising your own kids with values and discipline; something our ideological opponents abandoned long ago.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight