Generation of STARS

Have you seen the Disney channel lately?

I did, to my great horror.

I saw 14 year olds behaving like adults.No, more like stars. They were all dressed up, the producers probably trying to ride on the popular "High School Musical" wave.They were parading around with shiny guitars, singing, prancing around MTV style, coyly flirting with each other.

Whatever happened to the prancing Bambis, the castles, the forests,
Mickeys and Donalds?

There's always MTV on channel 20, isn't there?? Is there an urgent need to migrate our teens over so soon?

I saw so many beautiful people on Disney channel.
Happy faces,
Talented teenagers with voices of angels,
Popular and funny

That's reality, the way the media wants it.

American, Singapore Idol, America's got talent, Super Star/Band/Campus Star, Star Search...
The shows go on...
The message is the same.

"We love you if you are Pretty Good."
Pretty and Good at what you do.
Sing,act and/or prance or whatever!
Ha! take that!

Over some years now, i've been watching a segment of the youth population in schools and where ever i can.
There seems to be an overwhelming obsession in the youth culture to look good.
It bothers me big time
Yes, young people are still into sports, hobbies, for some,studies, like the days of old.
AND they want to look good doing these things.

Well there's really nothing quite wrong with wanting to look good, is there?
Everybody does

And yes it's great to look good.
I try too, at times.
But if we allow it to become the prevalent obsession of popular youth culture today,
we've got lots of work to do.
my favourite hokkien phrase-"Jin Bo Eng!"

There's a great lament in my heart when i see the shallowness of youth i meet today
Besides looking good, being popular and having a good time, i can hardly find desire or resolve in them

I heard of a dream team sometime ago
i call them "the nameless and faceless generation".
Please read my post on 'the Vision' again.
In short, they serve God and their generation without trying to make a name for themselves

"The advertisers cannot mould them.
Hollywood cannot hold them.
Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside.
On the outside?
They hardly care.
They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.
Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell."

This is my dream team.
The longing of creation
The groaning of the Spirit
the very dream of God

Madonna says,"Life is just a party, that's all you need to know
It's your turn to shine, baby let yourself go."-Spotlight

Philippians say,"so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe..."- 2:15

Parents, watch what your children are watching! Disney is NOT cartoon anymore.

Meanwhile,I'll just stick to Football Channel.