WARNING, POLITICAL RANT AHEAD. IF YOU’RE EASILY OFFENDED DO NOT READ ON!
Now it’s not too often that I feel the need to seriously rant about things, but this really got under my skin.
Yesterday, as I perused yahoo catching up on the news of the world, I came across an article about one of my favorite shows when I was a child…Sesame Street. Now granted, neither of my kids ever really got into the PBS show, but after watching a couple of episodes with them, I understood why. Elmo, the little prozac junkie was more than annoying enough to turn me off. Sitting through just one episode of the show inside the show ‘Elmo’s world’ was like pure torture with his goldfish named Dorothy and Mr. Noodle’s brother Mr. Noodle. And if any of your are wondering what happened to the original Mr. Noodle. Well, he died and was replaced without even a mention of his passing. Back in the day, when the shop keeper Mr. Hooper died an entire episode was dedicated to him and people cried and mourned his passing. But no, now a day we skim over the subject as if by talking about it, we’d risk bringing back the plague. God forbid we traumatize our children with the reality of death!
Yet I digress… Okay, so Sesame Street today isn’t my Sesame Street. I was willing to let that go, until some pussy-whipped executives terrified of being sued by morons screaming about political correctness decided put a warning label on the first two seasons released on DVD.
These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
So exactly what’s so different from the preschool child of today and when I was a kid that they can’t handle the early episodes of this show? Well, there’s nothing different about the children as they are nothing more than products of their environments. No, the problems isn’t with the children, it’s with their tree hugging, global warming screaming, politically correct parents, who can’t stand to have little Billy disappointed or sad, because it might hurt his self-esteem. Have we really become a country of easily offended softies who think it’s damaging to a child’s Psyche to have tests corrected in red ink, believing instead that being told he’s stupid in purple would be much better. That children’s little league games always end in a tie because it’s not okay for our kids to lose? COME ON PEOPLE! We are not doing our children any favors by teaching them that everything should be fair. LIFE is ugly, mean and most of the time unfair and man-o-man are some of these kids who are being raised on the belief that they’re special and everyone should cater to them, going to be in for a rude awakening when they grow older. You wonder why teens shoot other teens, why kids steal, lie and end up in jail? It’s because they haven’t been taught how to handle disappointments and hurt feelings when they were little.
Let’s stop the insanity before it’s too late. I say so what if Cookie monster ate nothing but cookies. That was after-all why he was called COOKIE MONSTER and Oscar the Grouch was a taste of reality, as nearly every one of us knows somebody who is perpetually grouchy. As I read on in the article, I discovered that the list of grievances went on and on, getting more absurd as they went. Each example cited only served to aggravate me more.
I have to say, the more I hear stuff like this, the more worried I become about our nation as a whole. This isn’t just about Sesame Street. It’s only become the latest victim in a much bigger problem. If we as a nation don’t grow some balls and start getting tough again, we’re going to be in serious trouble and people, it better be sooner than later cause time is running out.
