Out of Tune: Youth and Morality

Allan David Bloom stated that music is young people's passion, nothing eles excites them as music does. They can not take seriously anything alien to music. I think this is an over generalization, yes the younger generation love their music but it's not the only thing they love, and I don't believe it has a big influince on how the live there lives.everyone doen'nt take music littliry some just like the beat and for the ones that do listen to the words I dont think it makes them go out and do anything irrasational. I also dont think that It's the only thing that they have a passion for, my daughert falls under the age group that he talkes about, and she loves art she loves to draw. Yes she has her ipod and yes it's in her ear a lot but it does not influience her to do anything out of her norm. She's 15 and listens to rap, but she does not wear the tight skirts or little shorts that you see people wear on T.V. she's mostly in the house with her color penciles and drawing pad. I also have a 12 year son that loves to dance with or without music that's his passion, so not all young people are only intune with music.
Bloom also feels that music is behind the violence and sexual behavior that younger people exhibit, I feel this is also untrue, you see more violence and sexual behavior on HBO and in the news than you hear in a rap song. just about every channel you turn to you see a sex sean, even in the news theres a esx scandle. So we can't blame music for the way our youth acts we have to look inward. we must make sure that we install the proper morales into our youth so that know right from wrong even before they learn what music is and all this starts at home, no matter how much everyone wants to blame music for socity's issues I just dont believe that it will work because the way our youth acts only exhibits what they were tought at home. I think Bloom and every one eles that feel like him need to reevaluate there way of thinking, was is rock music that made the president have oral sex with someone other than his wife? was it rock misic that made the preist molest the little boy? was it rap music that made the father and son kill all those poeple on the highway? I think not, so you see the music that the younger people listen to has nothing to do with the way they act or sex and violence, it's just an way out for people that dont want to admit they messed up, that they went wrong some wear down the line and did not teach the right morals to there children.