by Rebecca Bynum
Of course, it’s hard to say exactly when it began or why we suddenly seem to have become such a corrupt country, but one answer may be found in mass entertainment. It seems to me that the overriding message blaring from everywhere and infecting our minds is this: It is possible to do good by doing evil and indeed, oftentimes doing evil is actually required in order to do good.
This, I believe, is the monstrous lie of our age.
Thoughts?
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11 Responses
We’ve muddied the waters, surely. Evil is not discipline, nor prudence, nor tough love. Evil is something very different, and something Saint Paul warned us to have no commerce with – as we are no match for it. Modern culture tells us we can argue with the Devil and convert him, if we simply understand his point of view. This is how things turn topsy-turvy. Communists lose this conversation with the Devil daily.
Yes Carl, it’s true, the waters are very muddy. Seems like every tv show, every movie, manipulates us to cheer for evil acts – not just killing the villain at the end, but all the way through every story. The hero has to do evil to do good. It’s insidious.
As one of the leading Influencers on social media I can say confidently that social media is a blight and a cancer upon the culture and the republic. TikTok, for example, probably positions perverts and losers so that they get lots of views with the purpose of undermining people’s concepts of right and wrong.
If our asian rival that runs TikTok weren’t trying to destroy the culture and the country they’d be challenged to find a better and more insidious tool than to rot the minds and souls of Americans stupid enough to use TikTok or post content on it. I admit to doing so but only to increase my “like” numbers because that is how I get monetized. I feel a sense of shame about this, but I keep doing it regardless because I am a bit of a shameless opportunist when it comes to social media influencing. Even though I post influential videos to TikTok, I think it should be banned.
How often is the porno site “OnlyFans” touted and celebrated to young women as a legitimate way to “earn” huge amounts of money? One national newspaper (NY Post) has at least one cover story per week about the great success stories of content creators (sex workers) on that site – and the huge barrels of money that they make pornoing!!
Previous to this explosion of perversion and moral corruption pornography was considered a debasement and abuse of women; now it’s considered “empowerment.” This corruption of the concepts of female empowerment of course means that feminism is totally dead.
But then again, so many people aren’t capable of defining what a “woman” is – including the most recent justice appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States – that the entire argument about debasement or empowerment of “women” is mooted.
When lawmakers do not uphold their oaths; when politicians reject the concept of “rule of law;” when criminals are arrested for serious crimes then released without bail; when elections are stolen; when people reject God because they think that they themselves are Gods – then clearly the country is in decline.
Oh, I forgot to mention this: there are only two genders. I know this statement will probably cause a lot of controversy!!!!!
Please find my social media and click “Like” several thousand times. I have to ask, because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be such an influential social media influencer!
Geraldine,
Yes, you’re right. The switch from women’s groups formed to help liberate women from the horrors of prostitution to supporting the “empowerment” of such utter debasement is one of the strangest phenomena I’ve ever seen. We’re watching the spiritual content of our civilization drain away like blood from a murder victim.
You may have become my favorite media influencer.
We are suffering from a bottoms-up neglect and self-mystification hallucination.
The fault is ours in permitting the unjustified erasure of traditional standards and the bastardization of language. This dereliction of sane humane duty is compounded by our slothful mentorship of our children.
What percentage of parents participate in PTA, Boards of Education subject evaluations, library book selection commitees?
How ought we to counter the termitization of our civilized beneficial structures and ratioales?
Do we need to organize better, better define the principles and procedures to be promoted, and evidenceless opportunists to be demoted?
We’ve perfected complaining; time now to improve explaining how to go about maintaining our life-enhancing attitudes.
Very true, Howard.
The other week, I found a copy of Fahrenheit 451 in a pile of paperbacks someone left by a sidewalk curb, and thought I’d re-read it. Bradbury’s premise is that human degradation — i.e. dumbing-down and averaging of minds — started with bland, politically correct (though he does not use this term) TV gruel. Looks like he had a point — and Rebecca’s post confirms it…
I think corruption in Canada and the USA came out of the teacher’s training programs after WWII, that more and more, emphasized an inversion of the Judeo-Christian ethic. Once the values of “sympathy for the devil” became mainstream the actions followed. Yesterday’s “radical philosophy” has become today’s common practise-an inversion of the values of the US Constitution.
“The Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis was published in 1947. Dr. Lewis says he was inspired to write “Abolition” by a textbook for undergraduate study of English literature. He never gave the name of the book but called it “The Green Book” which offered students a new way of thinking about beauty and truth without troubling themselves over the actualities of either. EVERYTHING predicted in “The Abolition of Man” is now a reality.
I’ve never read The Abolition of Man, but lately I keep seeing it referred to everywhere. Must be a clue I need to read it.