THE EDITOR, Sir:
WHY, HOW and when has 'Jamaica, land we love' come to such a sorry pass? Where have the days gone when someone would greet a passer-by with a smile and a 'good morning' and receive a cheerful greeting, when children respected their elders?
Today, take up any newspaper (local or foreign) and most of what is reported is sensational (crime, war, adultery, vulgarity, abuse of children) because we are told, that is what the populace wants to hear.
The radio and the TV do likewise, and more of these negative influences. We are all being 'brain-washed'.
Our young women parade nakedly (like the slave girls of yore for massa to take his pick).
The so-called music, tuneless and monotonous, has no soothing melodies to calm our nerves.
The so-called jokes - crude, rude, disrespectful of God. Is this supposed to be funny? No wonder many have become crass and wise men have lost their reason. Let us not allow all this filth to carry on ad infinitum. Is their no balm in Gilead?
I am, etc.,
V.M.
Kingston
