"A Respective Collective Perspective"
Finally a voice of reason (even if it did have to come from a short guy in Alabama)!
Adams Hudson, president of Hudson Ink - Creative Marketing That Works, gets on his soap box and says what all good business professionals and smart common folk alike think and feel, especially me.
We have come to celebrate mediocrity and have lowered our standards and expectations in this country to an all-time low.
It seems that anyone can become a television star in this day of "reality TV" (this is an oxymoron since once you tell people they are on camera for public display reality goes out the window). If you lose weight, you can advertise sandwiches for Subway like Jared. If you are viewed as the worst act on American Idol you can parlay that into a very lucrative career like William Hung, and the list goes on and on.
You can turn on MTV and watch shows where every other word is bleeped and people disrespect one another left and right. Worse, you can watch a show where parents betray their child’s current boyfriend or girlfriend and set up blind dates in an effort to displace the current boyfriend or girlfriend, whom to keep things interesting gets to watch via a tagalong camera all the while he/she is bashing the parents. Even worse (if that's possible), you can watch the kids of celebrities like Gene Simmons, Hulk Hogan or Ozzie Osbourne show complete and utter disrespect for their parents and disregard for any sense of rules, law or common courtesy.
Flavor Flav, Brett Michaels, New York, Tila Tequila, “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” can all have people enter a competition to vie for their love.
Don't even get me started with the talk shows, daytime soaps, court TV, shows where you eat bugs to win, or the non-thinking man's $1,000,000 game 'Deal or No Deal'.
I shouldn’t say you can watch, because it’s the kids and young adults that are watching – maybe even yours. Television is their jaded view of the world and sets the expectations high for success and wealth attainment, but low for the commitment, responsibility, discipline and respect required to achieve it.
Adams Hudson sends a wake-up call worth reading and heeding. Share it with everyone you know, especially your children, co-workers and their families. Read his insightful article by clicking below.
You might be wondering: "Is Adams smarter than a 5th grader?" He may be as small as one, but unequivocally I feel he has a Masters in marketing and PhD in life, but is always studying and learning and is one of the brightest people I know and I am glad to call him friend (especially when he agrees with me - then he's right too).
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