Say Goodbye to Disney Channel?

My generation is society’s future. Unlike past societies, our society is incredibly media-centered due to the advancing technologies. Some hold a false preconceived notion that this progress would enhance the minds of my generation. Unfortunately, the media is not always wholesome. Disney Channel is an excellent example of an insalubrious channel that is raising insipid, inane children. With my generation being the one to run our country in the future, should we allow Disney Channel to pollute our minds by promoting mediocrity, disrespect of authority and conformity any longer?

The mediocrity that Disney Channel promotes is within the individual cast members themselves. Although the shows have some wild situations in the background, the cast members are very common. None of them have any specific attribute that sets them apart from everyday people. Although the people playing the roles of characters on Disney Channel shows may have some form of physical beauty or talent, they are not too much different than what is seen in a school hallway every day. The averageness of the people in the shows is creating idolatry from younger children. Kids are always looking for an older person or teenager to model. Since they haven’t yet figured out who they are, they want to try to figure it out by being someone else. Through the older characters and younger audience, Disney Channel is succeeding in teaching these kids to be content or satisfied in being normal. Disney Channel is teaching kids that it is not necessary to strive for excellence or obtain something that’s a little out of their reach that they might have to work assiduously to receive.

Disney Channel distorts a child’s view on their elders. In past generations, respecting elders was a priority or could have even been considered a way of life. That mindset has since faded through media that makes adults seem foolish. In reality, adults are not really as ignorant to children’s imprudent behavior as this channel makes them seem. Adults have lived so much more life and even tried to pass stuff on their parents when they were younger, too. Through media like Disney Channel, kids do not recognize that. Children are being taught that their parents are idiots. Is that an appropriate attitude for children to have towards those that have walked the same paths? Could children lose wisdom through their disrespect towards their elders?

Conformity should be something that makes people cringe. Rather, it is strived for because it is within one’s comfort zone. All of the Disney Channel shows have similar themes, with almost identical characters and situations. The characters wear similar clothes and act in a similar way. This channel is encouraging conformity through cloning their shows and characters. It teaches people to stay within their comfort zone and never move past where they are in the moment and what is “in”. Will any of our future problems be solved if everyone is taught to think and act in the same way?

Disney Channel is lacking of anything to better our future generation. A common argument is that something so mindless is used as an escape from the real issues of everyday life. What happened to the art of reading? That is intellectually stimulating and enjoyable. It takes imagination to create pictures that are not fed to you. Or how about listening to music? Groups like Relient K use higher level vocabulary words such as volition, premonition and monotonous while playing with adequate music abilities and using a lot of unique analogies. Relient K exercises the figurative language that was taught to them in their English class. Neither listening to bands like Relient K nor reading books are mindless activities promoting any of the qualities that are detrimental to our country’s future. Do not let Disney Channel poison my generation any longer.

And I wonder...

((me))

And I wonder where you were
When you left me in the dark
Thinking only of the stars
And your face

And I wonder where you are

As I look upon the cross

That you polished secrets

into for me.

Do you know how much I died

When the rain fell down that night

Do you know how much I shook

Or do you care?

Do you remember what you did for me

What you brought out of

How you made me trust,

Told me not to cry

You’d be there

It would be alright

And now I look and see

But you were the reason

For my tears

And I wonder why I stayed

After what you put me through

But I blamed it on myself

And didn’t see through

Believed that you were true.

Now I’m stronger

Now I’m wiser

Now I’m sadder

More mature than I should be

For my age

Holding hands

And starlight nights

Holding dreams

With you in sight

Was pointless

Kissing on the rooftops

And jumping in the rain

Should not have been wasted

On you.

And now I wonder why

I cared so much for you

And now I wonder why

Why I loved you so

Do you remember what you did for me

What you brought out of

How you made me trust,

Told me not cry

You’d be there

It would be alright

And now I look and see

You were the reason

For my tears.

Maybe...

I did fail. Maybe I did fall. Maybe I did make a mistake. Maybe I'm not perfect...

But will you love me anyways?

"I remember standing three feet tall. Standing next to you I felt so small. I would've walked a thousand miles just to see you look at me and smile. Would have been so hard to give me just a little space inside your heart? Cause all I ever wanted. And all I ever needed, was just to hear you say you are loved my son. To hear you speak my name and say well done, well done." -You are Loved ((Building 429))

I don't know how to feel...

....Ever lived a day like that?