Pull the Plug

Maybe it takes one public figure to become the face of what’s wrong with the incredible sense of entitlement that pervades today’s young people. It’s all about me goes only as far as it interferes with or impacts another person’s life, but far too many young people warn the rest of the world to get the hell out of their way because they are coming through, like it or not. It’s difficult to know how to stop a runaway train, but it appears that a judge in Los Angeles is standing in the midst of a train wreck, hoping to contain it before there are any further casualties.

Lindsay Lohan is circling the drain and it's time for someone to pull the plug!

Lindsay Lohan was a great child actor, but she’s a failure as an adult. I’ve listened to the litany of it’s all her parents’ fault, but that doesn’t wash for me: children live their own mistakes, so they must accept responsibility for them. Yeah, we all have parental issues, but not many of us have the luxury of reliving them endlessly to avoid our own responsibility for the decisions we make. Lohan, on the other hand, seems to want a life-long free pass to act with impunity because … she’s Lindsay Lohan, whatever that means to someone, somewhere. And what a huge “fuck you” to the judge by failing to show up the day after your arrest for probation revocation.

There is a part of me that always wants to help, to guide, to support young people during their journey from then to now, but there are also those individuals who simply are past their expiration date, who make it far too hard to extend the helping hand when they bite it at every single turn. Will it somehow help Lindsay to be thrown into jail for many months or even a year? Perhaps not, but if it’s done right, it may impact her life enough to give her time to think about what’s she’s doing, rather than just continuing to act with assumed impunity.

Sadly, when I contact media coverage of Lindsay Lohan, my mind goes to Casey Anthony: peas in a pod. The intensity of the narcissism, of the total self-indulgence, without any sense of responsibility for their actions, is beyond belief in both of these women, who, incidentally, are in the same age bracket. Perhaps the only redeeming aspect of Lohan is that, so far, she does not have a child’s life to destroy while living in her own little narcissistic world.