hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
The Shrug: Sexualisation of Aussie children will not be regulated
"CHILDREN are increasingly exposed to highly sexualised images, a Senate committee has found - but it has stopped short of calling for tougher government regulation, which has angered parent groups.Although the committee rejected tighter standards on what television and advertisers can show, it recommended a national sex education program as a way to teach children about healthy relationships and to help them "deconstruct" sexualised images.
The professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University, Clive Hamilton, said: "The report fails to understand or reflect the level of community concern about the ways in which children are being sexualised by the media and advertisers and has largely ignored the evidence of harm presented to the inquiry by psychologists and other experts working with children."
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Great. Many adults, let along their children, can't conceptually 'deconstruct' the advertising they are confronted with.
After all the grand-standing and emotional talk artist Bill Henson sparked amongst figures in the public sphere with his photos of nude children, this is the meager outcome. Does it reflect a society in control of its own standards or a 'liberal' society dependent on an aloof political system which protects parasitical commercial practices so as to not rock the boat - and at the expense of the whole/greater good?
We need a new alternative to decision making that acts in the interest of society as a whole and not simply one aspect of it, namely commerce.