Hippies, Drugs, and Promiscuity

I borrowed two books while I was at my Grandma's place. Luckily, she didn't ask me what the titles were.

But, as you probably guessed, one of them is called Hippies, Drugs, and Promiscuity.

And the other is called You Can Raise Decent Children.

Great mother of God and all that's holy.

The information given in these books are classic. Although I haven't been too clear so far on what the point of Hippies, Drugs, and Promiscuity is, it is somewhat clear that the author is fascinated and shocked. Why, all these children do is smoke and do the old "in-out"!

That's the interesting thing about the book. It seems as if everyone she interviews is a child. I guess we could make certain judgments on her as well... But of course, she's conservative. She would never do anything immoral or have an obsession with drug-riddled children. Why, perhaps she might "test" a drug or two just to know how awful they are, but, I mean, hey. She is a moral, upstanding citizen just doing some investigative journalist work, I'm sure.

I've really got to complete the book to figure out what the hell her point is. You might as well write a book called Nerds, Computers, and RPGs. Staring at a screen all day! "Blogging" their opinions! "Chatting" on messenger programs! Discussing Lord of the Rings! Smoking the Devil's Tobacco! Needing glass pieces framed with wire or plastic to correct their vision problems! Having an aversion to physical activity lest it be a trampoline, laser tag or paintball! PRETENDING TO BE DEMONS, ORCS, ELVES, and other BEASTS! Spending all their money on comic books! The boys not realizing until reaching their 20's that the solution to not getting any dates is to date girl nerds(realizing also at this age the nerds of the opposite sex may not be scantily-clad Snow Tiger-riding She-vikings carrying Thor's Hammer, but may be strangely sexually attractive in that Lisa Loeb kind of way)! Spawning Nerd children who start the cycle all over again!

Not that any of that is really all that bad, I'm just doing some investigative journalist stuff.

Don't get me started on You Can Raise Decent Children, a book that equates slender, attractive, physically beautiful children with everything that is good, and heavier children with acne with misbehaving and being not "decent".

What a god damn f'n joke.

It also states that "any action a child takes is a direct reaction to their parents and how they are being raised". Example: If your child is homosexual (defined in the book as a "perversion" or much, much worse), then you must have done something horrifying to them.

These books were both written in the late 60's.

Sexual revolution my ass. Now isn't it great the world is run by conservatives? Those who were impressionable young Tories when these books came out?

Song of the Day: "Not if you Were the Last Junkie on Earth" by the Dandy Warhols. Not sure if this one will appear on myspace, but I'll have something by the Dandies here: http://www.myspace.com/ladylovinlynx

Link of the Day: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028346/
At least at one time, conservatism was funny.