Social Critics criticism ...Skateboarding bored youth

Otto Jansen

   Nothing in society shows the bored desperation of youth than skateboarding fad that hit this nation some time in the sixties or seventies. The amount of time spent by youth for this mobile cultural nuttiness mostly males is pretty troublesome and something few people even directly discuss. No doubt this male teenage fad disgusts me and the thought of females who I see increasingly copy their peers with this mischief madness. Parents and adults see little trouble in this teenage mobility form until broken bones require expensive hospital bills. These kids clearly they could be doing better stuff with their time and the passion they show for moving themselves on a price of plywood with wheels is just absurd along wit the risky tricks they attempt on a daily basis usually on tax supported buildings. Another troubling trend is the number of older males well past teenage years but apparently before adulthood using skateboarding as a viable urban transportation method.  The construction of ramps by parents on what was once quit quaint suburban sprawl streets is a twisted concept that I first visualized in movies but have seen luckily only a few times in person. Skate boarding  rise in popularity has been helped by the medias fixating of this as now some sort of viable legit sport backed by massive corporate money. There is a Taco Bell in the suburbs that has their screens set to some ridiculous Taco Bell sponsored  skateboard video and the making of Tony Hawk as some sort of athlete and media star over the years is  both appalling and frightening. Skate Boarders are a sick part of modern youth society in today's fucked up world and country that is the United States