Our Culture Needs to Change
Posted by Lorren on October 28, 2009
A couple of things have come up in the past couple of days that have led me to one conclusion: our culture needs to change.
The first was a comment made on the Glenn Beck Show about health care. Someone had written a comment along the lines of “Move over grandma. We want our health care, and we want it now!” This comment was made despite the fact that it has been revealed that under the public option, the most expensive care at the end of life would be curtailed in order to save money. Glenn Beck commented that we have become a culture of selfish individuals who didn’t care about how other people would be affected, as long as they got what they wanted.
The second was a news story that is horrific at best. A fifteen year old girl was beaten and raped for two hours while a crowd of people looked on and did nothing. The onlookers didn’t do a thing. Someone commented on the post I linked to that violence shouldn’t be entertainment.
Back in February, I wrote an article that I wanted to title You are What You Read. The editors changed the title on me to something a little more boring. Basically, a group of psychologists did some experiments, and discovered that a person’s brain waves while reading about a vivid event were about the same as someone who actually committed the crime. The Bible says in Matthew 5:28 that looking at someone with lust is the same as actually committing adultery; my conclusion at the time (and still is) is that perhaps that the reason this was said was that in your brain, there is no difference.
Someone who commented about the crime said that violence should not be entertainment. I agree. Neither should be movies with gratuitous sex scenes, BTW. Unfortunately, our culture is full of “entertainment” containing the exact kind of filth that we should be avoiding in real life.
If we really want America to turn around, we need to change the culture. We should avoid immoral “entertainment”. We don’t need to watch violent movies like Saw VI. We can’t say that others need to stop watching it; if we’re watching it, it needs to start with us. We need to teach our kids that entertainment like that is not appropriate either. We also need to teach them to speak up when something is wrong.
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