Yet here in the United States of False-Righteousness, where nudity is by and large illegal and considered by the vast majority to be immoral, the sight of one of Janet Jackson's breasts “accidentally” exposed on prime-time TV is cause for national media headline coverage, and the primary subject of tabloid prattle and talk show agendas, for months!
Illegal, seedy, pimp-delivered street prostitution; strip bars; pornographic literature, movies, and brazen TV shows, not to mention the endless popup sexually explicit and graphic websites cumming all over our monitors, are how we American men get our “forbidden fruit” served up to us. And we have a huge appetite for it, subsidizing
a multi-billion dollar industry with our insatiable cravings for exactly that which we are not supposed to want or have. Our social ethics, religious morals and governmental laws tell us we cannot have it, yet our entrepreneurial-driven marketplace dangles it in front of our noses every waking moment of our lives.
Our society is one of fundamental contradictions. We want to be free and feel happy. The use of drugs and alcohol can produce a temporary (yet false) sense of both. We produce these things, offer them up enticingly for consumption and then turn around and legislate and warn against the use of them. Our entertainment industry markets infidelity and libido to us as though it is the ultimate pleasure in life and makes idols out of our movie stars and their glamorous “anything goes” sex lives.
We believe in truth, honesty, justice and integrity. But we live in a society where our political leaders are consistently revealed as having lied to us. Our priests (certainly not all, but enough to cause disbelief and alarm) are discovered to be pedophiles. Our judicial system has dual standards for the rich and the poor, and for our young people, finding a role model with enough true integrity to emulate is like trying to find a snowball in Hell.
So, tell me, Mrs. Reagan; please, please, Nancy … just what exactly on God's green earth should we be saying “no” to? Drugs and alcohol? You're telling me that's the real problem here? I beg to differ, Madame. Rather, we should be saying “no” to some very real, fundamental and dangerous problems with our society and our way of creating and dealing with our reality in daily life. Drugs and alcohol, in and of themselves, are not the problem. It is our desire and need to use them to excess that is the real issue that needs to be addressed.
Your “just say no” campaign is a perfunctory and pathetic effort to place a non-stick Band-Aid on a cancerous tumor and then pronounce the patient “cured.”
