Back to School

This week heralded another school year and, I confess, I had no pangs of regret that I was not required.

The day's news included alarm that STDs in teenagers is increasing fast. That sex education is no longer a compulsory high school subject is the main reason attributed to this increase.

In addition, university principals are hustling to join Facebook and Twitter, thereby bringing them closer, informally, to their students. How they find time for such trivialities one can only guess at.
Universities were once the keepers and harbingers of truth, research and education.
In Chris Hedges' "Empire of Illusion," (2009) he claims that worldwide revenues from pornography are more than the total of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, e-Bay, and Apple combined. The largest users of Internet porn are between the ages of twelve and seventeen. Is there a message there?!