Teen Violence Recently

Recently, there are far too many pieces of news about teen violence.

I’ve only ever skimmed through the comments at Fit-to-Post (Yahoo! News). The most common responses are:

What are the police doing?
The police should go on more patrols.
There should be a curfew on youths.
Schools should educate the students.
Parents should educate their children.

I would be surprised if anyone making that statement thinks they aren’t echoing somebody else’s opinion, because anyone with any good sense would know that just about anyone can come up with those. Then again, we need these opinions so everyone who wants to bounce off the same kind of thoughts can just like their comments.

Then a whole bunch of people is guessing why teens are involved in violence.

Schools don’t give enough homework, so they end up roaming the streets.
Their parents didn’t watch out for them!
In my time, there was far less violence, so it must be video games.
Etc, etc

And the last type of responses is of people who are simply clueless.

I wrote a whole chunk of opinions and as usual, I got myself lost in a personal debate. It’s worth close to 5 pages on winword with Verdana 9 font type.

Anyway, here’s what I think the reason why teenagers are turning to violence is.

The main reason is…

Nobody cares.

Hell. Most of us don’t even know why the fuck we exist. We just know our parents were in the mood to bang and procreate. We are probably tokens of love between them both or something, accidents of a loose condom or an extremely powerful headshot on our fathers’ parts.

…But seriously. Much of life is progressing towards a depressing direction. Plagues, disasters, stress, rat races, competition…

The question is…why do we do what we do?

No matter how scientific some people want to make it sound, the reasons and motivations are emotional. We don’t experience life with logic…do we?

And since nobody really cares about anything these days…doesn’t it tell us that our children today are emotionally dysfunctional?

Is it really about the lack of police and the lack of law enforcement? Is it really the media? Is it really the school? Or is it our parents?

The question is, are our parents even emotionally functional themselves? Where did they come from?

…Again, who cares?

And so, we will observe this trend, and it will pass, only to be replaced by another depressing trend. Maybe the new trend would be men who find wearing bra a sport and women these days enjoy dating gigolos.