Checking out on Pop Culture
Monday, January 30, 2006
  American Pop Culture-Cruise ships
Afternoon everyone! Well I'm finally back from our family cruise. My mind (and body) are still jumbled with various disjointed thoughts and feelings. Since one does not experience cruises logically, I will not relate my experiences in logical order. Here goes:

My first impression of this cruise was how many senior citizens were on it! My gosh...where did they all come from? Got nothing against seniors per se...what is maddening is the slow dottering pace they keep...and the dazed, confused, befuddled look on most of them. Standing at the food bar on the second day, I was stuck behind a man and wife that just looked zombied out of their mind. And this was only the second day! They just stood there. Apparently deep in thought. Staring at the wall, off to the side, they gave the impression of being 'out to lunch' if you'll pardon the pun. Didn't help to clear my throat. The noise in the cafeteria was deafening. Someone bumped into them and jogged them back to reality. Slowly they idled doen the food bar a bit further. I eventually got through the line. (Actually, I ate entirely too much...but that's for another entry).

As the cruise went on, most of the seniors looked thoroughly beaten to a pulp. The ship pitched and rolled for several days. All of the carribean was rough. More than once I saw seniors barely able to stay up right in the middle of the hallway to their rooms...good gracious...I almost fell over more than once.

Now for the moral issues. We met some very pleasant people seated next to us at dinner. Over the days we got to know them well. They put their two lovely children in "Camp Carnival". One particular evening, picking them up after a two hour stint, the kids informed them the councilors moved the kids to another room for the evening. The little girl siad to her mother "Mommy...their were naked pictures in the room when they took us." Turns out that the councilors, for what ever reason, moved the kids for a while to a room that is typically used for young adult dancing and clubing. These kids were around 9 years old. The parents were up set. Don't know if they persued the matter, but this begs a moral question that christians have wrestled with for 2 thousand years: be in the world but not of it. Certainly kids should be protected from any exploitation...in any form. Cruise lines often cater to the values of countries that are at varience from moral guidlines in the southern Bible belt.

Item two. Some homeschooler teenagers mingled with some Canadian teenagers on the second day. The Canadian kids asked the homeschoolers "So...have you had sex yet on the boat?" That's just what one has to work with while being in the world. However, an employee made some statements that supported the Canadian teens desire for titalation. Oh well...more ungodliness to deal with.

I'll deal with some of the other aspects of this in my next entry. By for now!
 

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