Review of Stern first week 718

Stern is now so old looking, he reminds me of my Grandfather with long hair and an ear ring, and not as nice a Gentleman! Stern always was a latent adolescent who longed to prove his Father wrong, and found out he could get the attention he never had at home, by being foul mouthed on the radio. Sterns not all that different from the Boomers of his day who were late to reach adulthood, or never reached it at all. In a way he did, by raising kids and having a home life that wasn't like the office, until he suffered his divorce, but he was always able to remain the youthful adolescent who saw love not as a blessing that provides children, a family, a house, a tradition, a lineage, but rather from a juvenile, get me off now atbreastude, that when he wasn't wrapped up in that, he was wrapped up in controlling others by helping drag them down into his own perverted atbreastude about human loveuality.

There are things best left in the bedroom, and for your own privacy. Exhibitionists will always be stuck in their perverted view of love, that is wrapped up in gaining power and notoriety that comes from exploiting others insecurities, and Stern knows this well, and made his millions off of it. Like many other Boomer entertainers and producers of his time, he defended his perversion by showing how much money he made, and how much power it gave him. He obviously never read Plato's Republic, and realized that even in the times of the ancient Greeks, there were fools who thought the accumulation of wealth a virtue, and that's what many Boomers of Stern's persuasion not only bought into, but sold to others. Essentially when you look at a Pimp, he's selling you insecurity, and then will turn around and use your own shame and insecurity and guilt, to extort yet more money out of you, or use it to intimidate you into not questioning his morals, because you sunk to his level, and so therefore you're no better than he is.

The writer of psalms spoke correctly when he said, "for though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." You look at Stern after his divorce; he's not the same man, a lot less chickeny, and he's aging fast for someone younger than my own Boomer parents. When all is said and done, and especially after seeing MSNBC review of Howard Life, you do feel some sympathy for the young man who was never affirmed by his Father as a teenager, and doesn't realize his own Father obviously lacked some maturity when he spent time telling his son how he would fail, instead of helping nurture the insecure man. One could say, a lot of insecure men who have been in Stern's shoes before he became infamous, tend to be the bulk of his audience, besides the young women who are the mirror side of Stern and the men who listen to him, and admire him. They too lack the nurturing family life, and when it comes to building a home, having children, leaving a legacy; they seem totally lost on the concept, it might as well be Latin in their comprehension.

The good thing is Stern is moving to Sirius, and so he's off the public air waves. But the public air waves still aren't safe, since there are Stern Lite's popping up every day, and in every medium from Radio, to Video, to TV, to Movies. People without a concept of virtue, beyond the accumulation of wealth and power. You'll also find many of these people are the first to voice their opposition to the War on Terror, and the necessity of defending the country through the Patriot Act, because their world is about themselves, not others, and they don't want anything to threaten their wealth or power as they see it. It has nothing to do with Free Speech, and everything to do with profiting off their Speech, regardless of the moral implications, and how it might destroy others less fortunate than they, who not only lack the support of the family structure, but they don't have the money and power to insulate themselves from predators who would take advantage of them and ruin their lives, and use the Adult Material that is out there to do so.

In the end, I think Satellite Radio, like Cable (such as HBO, Showtime, etc), will have its market, but the good thing with the advancement in technology, is that for our own families, we can control the entertainment, simply by turning off the TV, and buying the shows you want your family to see and hear on DVD, and by playing only the music you want to hear on MP3 Players, Computers, and burned CD's. It's not here yet, but I can see a day when both Radio and Satellite Radio have V-chips for parents to control.

Stern is off the public airways, and that's good. Those fools who desire to waste their money on him go right ahead, be pimped! I've got better places to spend both my money and my time, and for all his money and wealth, I wouldn't dream of trading the family life I have for Stern's money or power any day of the week! Stern very much ends up like the man who seems virtuous in Plato's Republic. Almost no one he can trust, and virtually no real friends. His one true friend he could have had his whole lifetime, Allison, is no more the intimate friend he needed, and who was more important than all his wealth and power!

I doubt Stern's reads his own newsgroups, but if he stumbles across this article, I hope it sobers him up a bit. He can try to uncover who I really am, and launch the meanest of attacks, because it doesn't matter. I am nobody in Stern's world, and would never desire to be a part of it anyway! His wealth and power and fame are meaningless to me. All he has ever been to me was a temporary distraction on my journey through life, and eventually a turn off! I have far greater blessings to be thankful for. Blessings that Stern's money could never buy, nor replace.

Mallard Fillmore