Posted by Harcamone
This Aruba story is creepy and fascinating, don’t you think? A girl is missing. Three local boys, a Dutch kid and the Dutch kid’s father played some role or have some knowledge, or so the cops seem to think. Nobody’s saying where the girl is. Maybe stories don’t match.
You can bet a few crime writers are awaiting every development. To them, this story is red meat. I knew a TV writer, he used to cut this kind of stuff out of the paper and put it in a scrapbook. Crimes are the raw materials of writers. Nobody makes up the plots of novels or TV shows completely from their imaginations. High tech robberies, bizarre murders, ransom-money strategies … ingenious forensics … crime writers love crime.
I have a friend, another TV writer, who wrote an episode of CSI Miami. I was so curious — how did she know all this stuff? What was the relationship between her story and real-life details of crime-scene investigations and forensics? Indeed, she had read a dozen books, and even hired professional police people as consultants. She couldn’t just make all that shit up.
Another thing this Aruba situation forces us to think about: people have to raise their children right. It is very very difficult in these times to do that. But you don’t want your daughter going to some Paradise Island and getting into a car with boys she doesn’t know, and “kissing in the back seat” with one of them, all fucking stoned, driving to some club, or to the beach. That’s unacceptable, you can’t allow it as a parent.
Did you read Jaimie Glazov’s interview in frontpagemag with the kid who wrote the book Porn Generation? OK, the kid goes overboard. But here’s what people don’t understand; maybe Jaimie Glazov doesn’t get it, either: this is a Porn Generation. It’s true. It’s a fact. Pornography of an entirely new kind is only keystrokes away from anybody, anywhere, anytime. People like that girl’s parents have NO IDEA of the sexual imagery that is now common in the world their daughter inhabits. She might look like a cheerleader. Maybe she used to be a cheerleader. But what is she today?
Can you believe that there are new genres of sex acts? Oh, you say, people have been having sex for a milion years, there is nothing new. Well, maybe not. But Sexual acts that might have been fantasies on the far fringes of disordered minds years ago, or sexual acts that might once have been seen only in forcible rape scenarios, are now consensual and common, at least as pornographic imagery. People our age cannot dream of some of these things, no matter how promiscuous we might have been in our youth.
Liberals — I’m not making this up, check out Michael Parenti’s writing in The Nation — see Howard Stern as a kind of anti-corporate warrior. Have they ANY IDEA what he is really talking about? Do they know the beast that he is a tentacle of? Do they wonder why ordinary-looking young women come on his show to be degraded in front of a million people? Have they thought much about this? Do liberal parents understand what’s going on in some of the college classrooms? Or do they think the alarms are just Horowitzian repressive ravings or the nightmares of “born agains?”
Maybe liberal parents hesitate to draw lines because they saw goofy Michael Moore-type newsreels of thundering sermons in Southern churches about miscegenation and devil music, and people burning rock ‘n roll records in the 50s. Or had fun with Reefer Madness, which, because it’s so iconically camp, makes it look like being against pot is for crackpots and prudes. Refrigerator magnets, even.
Too many parents don’t understand the real world their kids live in. They don’t understand because they rely on media instead of doing the hard, painful, disgusting research to find out for themselves what’s going on. And if they are relying on progressive media … they’re fucked.
And in any case, that poor girl from Alabama had no business getting into a car with those boys.