Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Much ink in the news has been spilt about the superbowl half time, and a lot of us have spoken out and wanted to make our voices heard, from the grandma at church to the man on the street to people in political office. One of the noteworthy things about the current morals and spiritual currents in our country is how deeply the US is split on these lines.
Yet one of the comforting things for us who are trying to discern the upright life,(and perhaps one of the frustrating things) should be the knowledge that we are not alone. Our country is deeply divided on issues, but half the country thinks the things the media thinks are cool to be insulting, incomprehensible, evil, or sacriligeous.
For me as a movie goer, Lord of the Rings was a breath of fresh air. This year, for the first time in I don't know when, I went to several movies (Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, The Last Samurai), and none of these movies had the "Obligatory" bedroom scene. All of them had clearly defined good and bads, minimal vulgarity and no-anti-heros. All of them did very well at the box-office.
Thanks to Roe V Wade and easy access to birth control, there are fewer and fewer of the teens to drive the industrial machine that fed the "entertainment" industry, and to get the fewer and fewer dollars split on an increasingly larger number of entertainment options, the industry acts like a desperate man, going further and further into the extreme to catch someone's attention. Perhaps it is reaching to far, and now the bankruptcy of that lifestyle and world view are getting on the nerves of people in the middle. It is certainly becoming harder and harder to ignore, accept, tolerate.
We who care about these things need to make our opinion count, by how we spend our money, by what shows we choose to watch, by who we vote for, by our willingness to let our voices be heard, by how we live our lives. God willing (and let us pray much on this) 2004 will start seeing the pendulum swing the other way!
Yet one of the comforting things for us who are trying to discern the upright life,(and perhaps one of the frustrating things) should be the knowledge that we are not alone. Our country is deeply divided on issues, but half the country thinks the things the media thinks are cool to be insulting, incomprehensible, evil, or sacriligeous.
For me as a movie goer, Lord of the Rings was a breath of fresh air. This year, for the first time in I don't know when, I went to several movies (Lord of the Rings, Master and Commander, The Last Samurai), and none of these movies had the "Obligatory" bedroom scene. All of them had clearly defined good and bads, minimal vulgarity and no-anti-heros. All of them did very well at the box-office.
Thanks to Roe V Wade and easy access to birth control, there are fewer and fewer of the teens to drive the industrial machine that fed the "entertainment" industry, and to get the fewer and fewer dollars split on an increasingly larger number of entertainment options, the industry acts like a desperate man, going further and further into the extreme to catch someone's attention. Perhaps it is reaching to far, and now the bankruptcy of that lifestyle and world view are getting on the nerves of people in the middle. It is certainly becoming harder and harder to ignore, accept, tolerate.
We who care about these things need to make our opinion count, by how we spend our money, by what shows we choose to watch, by who we vote for, by our willingness to let our voices be heard, by how we live our lives. God willing (and let us pray much on this) 2004 will start seeing the pendulum swing the other way!
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