Is Rock and Roll to be Blamed?

In everyday of our lives overall generalization leads to misunderstanding and misjudgment. When we look to Mr. Bloom’s idea mostly he was looking to one side of the story that is “rock and roll music is bad’’.  He mentioned that rock and roll doesn’t transmit good behaviors rather it instigate violence, drug use, sexual arousal, and the practice of misbehavior. He didn’t see any value what the music has brought to one’s success, inspiration or knowledge. He concurrently denies and excludes rock and roll music as part of art or its contribution it brings similar to any other technical subjects. There is also weak correlation of rock and roll music in initiating violence, Satanism, drug or any unwanted sexual behavior. He was mostly admiring the old generation and their tradition; he did not recognize how his parents or his grandparents were discontented with his generation. It depends on the personality of somebody, for anything we think of healthy can be unhealthy if we use it in a bad orientation. For instance salt is the specie of life, let’s use it excessively doesn’t it has unhealthy effect? Life needs balance, if we take something to the extreme and destroy the other balance, we definitely are in trouble.

Mr.  Bloom may be spiritual, but he did not realize there are even a lot of rock and roll spiritual songs that reaches the hearts of many. I am also questioning his objectivity. He was subjectively judging everybody’s potential without even have any objectivity to proof. Of course in some instances he is right. There may be violence, hate, and insult on any music or TV programs. We should be selective. In the early days of his time music was in its primal stage but there was nothing that hinders his generation to practice unsafe sex and having caught many STDs, or else engaging in drug use. Then who is going to be blamed. Of course sometimes generation gets into some kind of madness that doesn’t mean everyone is mad. For instance, look how we are dealing with texting; some of us are killing our productive life. Everywhere you go you see a doctor next to his patent, teacher in his class room, office staff in working hours, students in class room, train driver, pilot ……are obsessed with texting. This is killing the worth of life. But when I say this I am not generalizing with everyone. For instance I don’t want to text and I never did it. Why? It is my choice, I choose to be wise in every minute I have.

 Mr. Bloom even did not understand how the new generation has advanced intellectually, economically, technically. These are the products of the generation he is blaming. Therefore everybody is different and may have passion for one or may be for many, which can easily fit in their life style. For instance, being a devoted mom and advancing my career are my passions, but listening to music can’t be a barrier to do my passions.