Pop culture’s influence on our daily …show more content…
But what is a friend? History’s romantics had the idea that friendship was a passionate thing akin to finding your true love, among other ideas, and for some, as in the example of David and Jonathan, a biblical account of the friendship between David and Jonathan, recorded in the books of Samuel, David’s love of Jonathan “was more wondrous to [him] than the love of women.” A friendship so great is also akin to family, as seen with Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lamenting over the passing of Arthur Hallam; “My friend… My Arthur… Dear as the mother to her …show more content…
In a culture where music shows a recurring theme of drug use and abuse, sex, and alcohol, it’s not surprising to see a large amount of teens using drugs; a search query of “drugs and students” on LexisNexis returns multiple results of school legislatures resorting to drug testing in middle schools and high schools across the nation. A 2002 Irish News Article, written by William Scholes reveals that at the time of writing, over half of all Irish Students use illegal drugs, while 11% of drug users take drugs daily. Two-thirds of these students used drugs in secondary school, according to a survey taken by the Union of Students in Ireland. An article written as recent as 2014, distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News, shows that Mingo County schools in West Virginia randomly drug test their students. These are middle schoolers being randomly drug tested; the average 6th grader is just 11 years old.
How could society have fallen so much? When Religion, a once sensitive, sacred and personal subject becomes a topic of pop culture through nefarious public relations practices, a problem is apparent. This is the downward spiral of civilization, with the media force feeding the minds of the immature adult imagery, desensitizing them at a young enough age, removing them of their childhood