*The Old Gray Lady reports [Mon, Oct.5th] that soon bloggers will be required by the FTC to disclose any connection with advertisers that may have. Of course that's just the tip of the ice berg but it reminds us that our ever faithful government has finally succeeded, where politicians have failed, to get its foot in the personal internet door. I don't have problem with disclosure,but what I have a problem with is the selectivity that will go along with it. The website for reading this article is www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/business/media/06adco.html?r=2&hp .....
*Arriving home late last night I decided to stay up and watch a couple of tv programs. The first was 'Lie To Me.' The basic story line was that a college guy, at a party had sex with an underage girl. The beginning of his defense was that he had no idea she was underage, which in this day in age its easy to disguise one's age; finally, after a good bit of investigative effort its established that the boy was telling the truth that he didn't know her age, and all indications hinted she was older. However in the course of that investigation the main star of the show comes across a couple high school friends of his daughter who quite regularly frequent these college frat parties and have made a contract between them to see who can have the greatest sex with college boys.
The telling moment comes when the leader of these particular high school girls says to the investigator, 'what's the big deal its only sex.' This is what we have taught our children, perhaps not so much by what we have taught them as by what we haven't; and its also an indictment on the value system of our culture. Later when the Prosecutor realizes the evidence is stacked against the victim, who herself was a part of the h.s. girls contract, the defender is set free. The victim's father, who can not handle the truth when his own daughter tells him about it, goes out and kills the freed college defender, and our last picture of him is being put into a police car ... the tragedy of this scene is that the Father, in committing a murder will now be behind bars for the rest of his life - who is going to raise his daughter that is struggling - who is going to be there to hold her hand in the trials of life and direct her into making good decisions. Of course I guess the argument can be made he wasn't really there to begin with, but his daughter's finally revealing the truth could have been a moment of hope - a moment of starting all over again. Is this what our culture has come to? Was this a true depiction of how the average high school student feels about sex? .... What lies are we telling ourselves?
*The Clash of the Gods: Lord of the Rings. This was a great show, the Lord of the Rings is definitely one of my favorite myths. It was also a good show for understanding how the Lord of the Rings series came about through Tolkien's writings of the Hobbitt and Silmarillion. If you're a fan of JRR Tolkien you might want to check out 'The OneRing.net ... or go to http://www.wormtalk.blogspot.com/. I may have more to say about this later on.
*Arriving home late last night I decided to stay up and watch a couple of tv programs. The first was 'Lie To Me.' The basic story line was that a college guy, at a party had sex with an underage girl. The beginning of his defense was that he had no idea she was underage, which in this day in age its easy to disguise one's age; finally, after a good bit of investigative effort its established that the boy was telling the truth that he didn't know her age, and all indications hinted she was older. However in the course of that investigation the main star of the show comes across a couple high school friends of his daughter who quite regularly frequent these college frat parties and have made a contract between them to see who can have the greatest sex with college boys.
The telling moment comes when the leader of these particular high school girls says to the investigator, 'what's the big deal its only sex.' This is what we have taught our children, perhaps not so much by what we have taught them as by what we haven't; and its also an indictment on the value system of our culture. Later when the Prosecutor realizes the evidence is stacked against the victim, who herself was a part of the h.s. girls contract, the defender is set free. The victim's father, who can not handle the truth when his own daughter tells him about it, goes out and kills the freed college defender, and our last picture of him is being put into a police car ... the tragedy of this scene is that the Father, in committing a murder will now be behind bars for the rest of his life - who is going to raise his daughter that is struggling - who is going to be there to hold her hand in the trials of life and direct her into making good decisions. Of course I guess the argument can be made he wasn't really there to begin with, but his daughter's finally revealing the truth could have been a moment of hope - a moment of starting all over again. Is this what our culture has come to? Was this a true depiction of how the average high school student feels about sex? .... What lies are we telling ourselves?
*The Clash of the Gods: Lord of the Rings. This was a great show, the Lord of the Rings is definitely one of my favorite myths. It was also a good show for understanding how the Lord of the Rings series came about through Tolkien's writings of the Hobbitt and Silmarillion. If you're a fan of JRR Tolkien you might want to check out 'The OneRing.net ... or go to http://www.wormtalk.blogspot.com/. I may have more to say about this later on.
Eutychus2, I must lament that much of the current generation of 20-30-somethings learned or reflect the moral values that were on display each week during the run of the "Friends" TV series. I haven't watched TV enough to analyze the debris in the the current broadcast wasteland, but I'll bet is very similar. Hannah Montana comes to mind...
ReplyDeleteSo right, brother Don.
ReplyDeleteIt was really a bummer to have the show end with the star investigator hugging his daughter because she had told him the truth about not going to the frat parties, but he returns to her her birth control pills .... what hypocrisy!
have a good day