Yesterday's tragic murder at Virginia Tech speaks volumes about a society that is out of control. We have become a society of Snoop Dog lovers with a broken down moral base that lacks respect for the law, and respect for others.
To assume this has no ramifications for our society, and eventually the economy, is a poor assumption. Remember, society is the economy, and hence stock market.
I can't begin to tell you how badly I feel for the families whose children were murdered at Virginia Tech. There is no way you and I can begin to imagine what those families are going through. This is a very horrible thing, and our prayers go out to these families.
The question I have is who is society going to blame for the murders. Undoubtedly, the gun holders will be attacked first. They always are. I think this situation goes much deeper than guns. I think we have a terrible societal issue in our nation.
Those of you who have teenagers, please pay attention to the pressures that your kids have to deal with. Parents that do not want to confront their children are ignoring the vulgarity and filth that they are being bombarded with on a daily basis.
Be it video games, MTV, VH1, Showtime (owned by CBS-Viacom who fired Imus), HBO (owned by Time Warner) Vulgar Rap Music (Warner Music Group, Sony, Seagram's/Universal), or mainstream products promoting sex (Viagra-Pfizer, Celais, KY Jelly, and Valtrex), no one can argue that our decency as a society is in the tank.
The media will stop short in calling for a nationwide boycott on rap music because some of their employers (or their friends) are making a ton of money from it. Heck, Time Warner owns CNN and has Warner Music that producers rap music. Don't look for CNN to condem rap music. Many rap songs promote drugs, sex, and violence.
So, what major companies are involved in distributing these vile products to our society? How about these;
Sony Music Entertainment
Interscope Records, under Time Warner, now Warner Music Group.
Premeditated Records, Warner Brother Records, Time Warner, now Warner Music Group.
Thorn EMI; now called The EMI Group, United Kingdom
PolyGram merged with Universal Music Group in 1998, the parent being The Seagram Company of Canada.
BMG Distribution, BMG Entertainment, Bertelsmann, Germany.
PolyGram Group Distribution was formally owned by, Philips’ Electronics, Netherlands.
To get a better picture of what we are up against, let's compare the murder rates in California 1960 to the year 2005;
1960
Population- 15,717,204
Murders- 616
Forcible Rapes- 2,859
2005
Population-36,132,147= up 129% since 1960
Murders-2,503= up 406% since 1960
Forcible Rapes-9,392= up 328% since 1960
Now that the Virginia Tech tragedy has occurred, the airwaves will be filled with so-called experts who will attempt to find the cause of the sickness in our society. In reality, one does not have to look too far beyond our TV sets and radios.
Remember what Zig Ziglar said;
"You are what you are because of what goes into your mind".
"You can change who you are, you can change what you are, by changing what goes into your mind".
