America: A (somewhat) Spoon-Fed Society

Is it just me, or is the modern world really telling us people what we should learn, how we should think or behave, teaching us what's appropriate and what's not in certain situations, and creating a world of "harmonious unity"?
As we see nowadays, there's an infinite amount of information readily available on the world wide web, media, society, etc. We have more information out there- everywhere- that the quality of information ultimately degrades over time. A no-brainer there.
On the news hundreds and thousands of people die everyday. Some with unnatural circumstances but have become the headlights of our society have become the norm in our society. You can find manslaugter in unlikely homes (on the news a devout Christian family's son had beecome a gunman and killed people in different churches out of feeling from rejection when he was expelled from the YWAM camp.), horrendous torture of innocent young victims, parent's killing thein own children, neighbors acting violently, people just killing people-- as of today on Google news with the search of "death murder" there are 52,543 ... Hopefully that number won't increase, but it's highly improbable. Is our society faced for disaster? Are we doing more harm than advancing society?

Being raised in S.E. Asia and having family there, education is highly valued. So valued that parent's would buy cars or expensive gifts for their child if they performed well on college exams or if they performed poorly, become an outcast in the family circle-- leaving their child with a feeling of rejection. These students study day & night-- they hardly have time for themselves. Their whole life is planned out. Starting out with going to an English-speaking kindergarten, to getting accepted at a private American prep-school, to going to a bunch of summer camps, to going to Harvard University, and Harvard Medical School. I bet when people get some sense in the future, if there will be a far longed future, they'll just laugh or feel pitifully of how one child's whole life was planned out like that. Actually, I think there's a trend. Parents trying to control their children's lives in attempt to satisfy success and a sense of acheivement. Farmer families having tons of kids so they could take on the farm, kings and queens matching out who their sons or daughters will marry, and now today families taking charge of their children's lives using education. What's next? Be the first to build colonies on other planets???
What is sucess? My definition of success is achieving a goal that was hardly sought after. & I think that the children should be able to choose what they're goal in life will be, whether it really is to become a doctor, a freelance writer, a traveler all across the world, or a fashion designer with shops in New York, Milan, London, and Paris. When will we get out of this Mobius strip of a ruckus and have some sense.
It creates a world of poverty, inequality, oppression, denial, rejection, crime, theft, murder, and more...

MEDIA
like in my first post-- I hate the media-- Personally, I'm really out of this world in the wrong century. Sometimes I wonder if I were to be born in the 18th or 16th century or something before that. I don't watch T.V. that much nor am I persistent in reading the news either. I'm really out there and just do what I feel & seek what I can. I mean, I'm book smart and all, I like reading, but when it comes to today's stuff, I'm not really into all of it. There's just too much information out there that it creates so much confusion. I hate how most public schools are how they are today. Quantity over quality. They force all this stuff into our brains like we're sponges and ask us to regurgitate it by the end of the week. You never go over it afterwards, and they just put more pressure by making you read tons of books or give you tons of homework. (Maybe this is just my school and the courses I take) They don't relate it to anything and don't tell you why you should learn it. They just say they teach it because it's in the curriculum. And as for the state tests, they teach to the test so that they can keep their "accredation" and maintain their pay checks. The quality of the teachers are also very degrading and shameful. Some teachers don't really know much about the subject they teach and also teach football or basketball as well and are too busy to grade papers when it comes to their season of the year. Alsom some teachers will often give you curves so that you could pass- which is really good for the students- but does it mean we are actually learning? Not really.
When we're actually trying to shove all this stuff into the young minds in a forcefull manner, they don't really retain it. Then, how come, do they understand all the other things that happen with Brittany Spears, J-Lo, Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, and what not? It's because it's repetition-- everyday and they can relate to it. People are talking about it. It's interesting, and sometimes their parents don't want them to learn about these things. Often in teen years, they can be seen as rebels and think they're super great and cool.
Get out of the habit of babying your child, forcing stuff upon them (What, you didn't get into Harvard? You're valedictorian and president of the cheerleading squad, you work 7 days a week, you should've gotten in more than anyone else!) Hello~? There are tons of valedictorians in the U.S., and does that mean they are necessarily smart? No, not at all, like I said, some schools really suck. This kid needs to get a life. Does she know what she wants in life? Maybe, maybe not. It's really sad when a child just lives their whole life to their parent's standards to get approval. Anyways, I'm done with all this yabbering. It's 8:20 A.M. I'm tired. I'm going to bed now. *yawn* g' night/morning. Forget the gym, I'm hitting the covers.