Music and art -

     I'm on some level an artist, more of an eccentric and a bizarre maniac with a taste for the odd and unusual, but I roll that all into my view of an artist. I'm not saying that I know art or that my art is better than others, but I do understand the concept of art, and contrary to popular belief art is not just an expression.... it is a voice. Thus bringing me to the concepts of censorship. Censorship is actually quite infantile in it's development compared to the world. As of the past 20 years it has been a tool to control and conform the masses and well simply speaking a nanny to the masses. No you can't say this or do that or show this at this time. The times however have matured and become smarter than the censor. If we don't like what you have to say we go to another form of media. Don't like that they censored a TV show download the uncensored episode online.
     This massive monster of a question is born from this change in the times. What is right for whom? I'm not saying there are direct rules to age as people like forms of art are multifaceted and differ greatly. There is a basic guideline and the ultimate downfall to this guideline which creates the majority of the issues with censorship is Parental guidance. Too many parents let things fly that shouldn't just because they'd rather be friends with their child rather than a parent. Mostly because people are having children younger and younger. So how do you enforce the failure of these few parents? The government and the conservative view is to punish us all. To be honest this is futile and pointless as the smart masses of the people learn ways around things. Such as pirating, bootlegging and intellectual bypassing of the limits of censorship oh and by the way a fair portion of the people smart enough to counteract the censorship are the idiots who don't watch their kids. Ironic right?
     Art is a given right. No I don't mean that an infant or an immature should be allowed to paint nudes or something more bizarre. What I'm stating that if a mind is allowed to be creative it gives a child focus. Instead of teaching todays use the internet and letting the TV and Web raise your child. Sit down and do something artistic with them. Let them sing or teach them some silly songs. If you're creative enough parodies. What is wrong with the "Youth of the Nation" is not the media they are shown or the games they play, but the lacking of supervision and moral support to go with the media they are exposed to. I was raised in the Looney Toons era but never did I once try to feed my brother dynamite. I was taught it's humor not how life works. This is part of the flaw or the mixture of animation and reality TV. More people think that what they see on TV should be copied by the fact they are told "This is real", instead of "this is for entertainment purposes".
- William Dreimann