I have been slacking on this and not posting like I should. For the whole 3 of you that read this I am sorry for leaving you hanging like this I'll repent and mend my ways.
Todays blog is about media. The Media today is very different than it was 10 years ago. What is
"The Media?" It seems to be this strange entity that is all around us. Or better yet what is "Hollywood?" It seems to be this strange collaboration of minds that shape what reality should be, or at least what they think it should be.
As time moves on it seems more and more things that were once taboo are now becoming ok and acceptable to have in the open. Things that were once only found in a pg-13 movie are now right in front of you on normal cable television and there is nothing wrong with this. At least society would have you think that there is nothing wrong with this. That there is nothing wrong with desensitization, and that we should all be "more open" to the things of the world.
There are movies now that get a pg-13 rating that 10 years ago would have been R without question. Why has this changed? Why have we allowed this to happen, and better yet how did this happen? There are words on TV that would never have been allowed to be said 10 years ago. Same thing, how did we allow this to happen? How did we allow people to push the envelope to the point where we are today.
There are images of a sexual nature that are in commercials, and normal sitcoms that would NEVER have been allowed to be placed in front of kids and yet prime time television which was once the family time to watch TV is full of sexual images, and story lines. Sex sells and people that produce TV shows know this and use it to the maximum. Does that make it ok? Does that make it ok for us to watch these things? There are people that would say that it is ok. That it does not effect me at all and that I can take this and I can watch this without issue.
There are many problems with that mentality. One is that our line on what is not ok to watch slowly moves over time. What we would once not watch we will now watch. The gray area will constantly move to allow more if we have this mentality of I can handle it. Before we know it we are "ok" with things that in reality are much closer to things that we are not ok with. If one is not careful we will be carefully cheated in to believing that they can watch things that they do not want to. The Devil carefully will cheat you to hell. He is very good with what he does, and there is a reason that the word "cheat" is used in that phrase. That is exactly what he is doing, cheating you out of things that you want. Cheating you out of your morals, and standards. He wants this, and he really wants to do this without you knowing. Many many small threads will one day become powerful cords that will control you.
I know that this is a topic that can get people going, and that some people are going to think that I am ridiculous, but I hope that what I am really trying to say will come across with this blog.
Is it really that big a deal concerning what we watch? It is really being done intentionally by people in the media? Is it really that important?
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What we watch makes a huge difference. I know a girl who has drug and alcohol problems, can't hold a job, has been married at least twice, and has three children by three different men. She is a white girl that was raised in a moral, upstanding, two-parent upper middle class home. One day she said to me, "My life wouldn't be like this if I hadn't watched rated R movies." Now, of course not everyone will be affected to this extent but the media absolutely affects us, whether we want to recognize its influence is up to us.
Oh yes, this girl is 26 years old.
And don't forget it is not the "R" rating, but the content that is contained in it. There are plenty of movies with just as bad content that are of a lesser rating. Sad to say now a days ratings just don't mean as much as they once did.
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