On Fame and Children

Well, this is my first blog post and my thoughts on the subject are from a post John Green made on the Nerdfighters web site about Ali Lohan, a 14 year old child related to Lindsay Lohan releasing a debut single with rather inane lyrics. His thoughts were how this effects both the child and the music industry. As well as how child authors effect the book industry.

Now, there has been a fair amount of information about child actors that do not do well as adults. I am not as sure about child authors. I am not sure really what can be done about the phenomenom, but I also thinking about what would happen if something was done. Could a ruling be passed to keep child actors out of Hollywood because of the undue pressures that it puts on the children? As it seems to lead to many drug problems and generally unstable adults, it seems that it is a major problem.

Would our society actually take the step to protect these children even if the children think it is what they want? Where is the line drawn? Not to mention the fact that Hollywood would suddenly have to try and make movies that don't have children in them, or just complete replace them with CGI. It is some rather interesting speculation.

I know for myself that I would like to see the children protected more, because I find it very sad to see how fame exploits them. There are many adults that have a hard time dealing with the pressures of being famous, the pressures have to be much greater on a child that is trying to develop into a healthy adult.

As for reasonings outside of the children's health and well being, there is also the fact that as far as music and books are concerned, in many cases, the industry is flooded with not just mediocrity, but products that are just plain bad. The music industry continues to pursue the next pretty face and does not care about the quality of the lyrics much less the ability to sing. Book publishers have books that are trite and inconsistent.

Well, speaking on inconsistent, I have pretty much rambled my way through this post as my thoughts came up. I ate least stayed on the general subject. Hopefully, I will be able to keep up with posting on at least a semi-regular basis. I must write more...