So what are we here for anyway? I was just reading a thought that one of my friends, who went to Faith with me, posted. It made me pretty sad though. He was completely confused about life. here's what he said:

"If you think in complete human terms, it's like you live to make babies. You give birth, give your children love...all of it, then watch them leave when they turn eighteen, you die, and then it happens again. Seems like all my parents' love, just SO much love, is just so that I could grow up to be eighteen. I don't think anyone gets me. "

How sad is that?! What I immediately thought of when i read this post was that his parents were not to blame. But who is to blame for this feeling that my friend, as well as probably most western teenagers, feel? I believe you can trace it back to the western way of thinking. I know that sounds a bit lame, not pointing out one specific thing that's to blame, but an entire culture. But it appears to be the case.

The US and other countries influenced by the West, are pushing and compelling their people to be totally independent, to look out for number one because no one else truly loves or cares about you. Sadly this push for independence is causing young adults to become completely messed up. As evidenced by my friend, they feel alone, as though no one understands them and as a result they end up doing stupid and often damaging things to themselves and others around them. The sad thing is, their parents feel a lot of pressure as well. They feel as though they have no right to guide their children once they've reached the age 18 and this is a completely un-biblical perspective, one of the Devil's greatest triumphs in this world today.

Ratatouille, Flicka, Little Mermaid, and High School Musical

This past friday I saw Ratatouille. Pixar did pretty well; their short intro clip entitled "Lifted" was funny as well. They've stumbled upon a good thing. The whole concept of a mini clip before the movie makes it feel as though you're getting way more for your money, the allusion of quality is created and somehow segued into the main film. Good job Pixar. One thing I thought interesting though is there seems to be a plethora films coming out lately with this "you're right, your father is wrong, therefore do what you need to to feel happy" theme. Did someone out there have a bad relationship with their father?! Most of the movies are for children, but that makes them all the more damaging which will mostly likely result in causing the already fragile family structure in America to become even more unstable.


Flicka is a main one that comes to mind. In this film, if you can call it that, the father is completely unreasonable to the point of absurdity, his daughter played by Alison Lohman, the girl in Matchstickmen and White Oleander is this total angel who's done absolutely nothing to elicit this amazingly unjust behavior except having the strong desire to be herself. And going back a few years, ok a lot of years, there comes the


Little Mirmaid in which film Aerial's father is out to keep her strapped down for life, depriving her from being "up where they talk, up where they walk, up where they stay all day in the sun," where she's wishing she could just be "part of their world." etc. Poor Aerial, (whose name by the way happens to be the same word used for describing the part of a plant which grows above the ground, like when the roots are showing above ground etc....that was no mistake.) Oh and then coming back to the present there's Highschool Musical, a movie wherein both main characters go against their parents wishes and join a musical. Not to mention almost every single boy, including the main guy, Troy Bolton but more overtly in the character of Ryan Evans, acts unusually feminine.
(Heh, ok that's not Ryan Evans in the picture, but seriously just watch the movie and by the end you'll completely agree with me, or your money back.)

Hum...it seems as though H.G. Wells' picture of the future was not far from the truth in his book Time Machine.