them do and emulate them, all the while saying how lame the adults behavior is.
When the society around us pays these human brillo wastes to speak, and laughs about what they do, and sells their shirts with their images in the store where they get more shelf space than decent food or bibles (not my choice of reading material, but it is held up as a standard to beat by many) the kids will learn what we, the adults, think is important, and what we value.
They will learn to treat young women as less than they are worth, and young women will internalize that value. They will make jokes and laugh about the black folk, as if they aren't humans, and the same with people whose sexual orientation is different. Maybe even about you.
That is how we begin the process of teaching hatred, which is a learned value, not something we are born with.
That is their contribution to our society. Teachers and role models. And wooden penny whistles that make ugly sounds. I don't think they have produced any doctors that might save your kid when he or she gets sick, or scientists that might find a new energy source to replace the ones that we use now, the ones that are choking our planet, and us, to death. But they will teach your family to be disrespectful to others, while ending every show by praying to a god who, if it is the one described in that bible they supposedly think so much of, would probably be wondering why in the hell people call it "intelligent design" when this is the product.
These bermuda-short wearing rich golfers (you have seen their "before" pictures, yes?) who have donned beards and a fake persona to fool you and the other people who they see as yokels into thinking this is how they really are aren't just the inert ingredients one might think.
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