We went through the Peoples' Choice, the SAG and the Oscars. I personally would rather have my toenails pulled out as to watch that but my wife enjoys it so, well, being the great husband I am, I chose to grin and bear it. Then you begin to realize with each awards show they are talking about the same movies, same music, same, same, same and then the thanking of those paying for the extravaganza. Am I sounding a bit cynical this morning?
Then you quickly begin to realize that 95% of the movies being celebrated we have never seen nor probably ever will so why do we invest time watching it? THEN, we turn on the TV and watch some of the new sitcoms in trying to be less 1950s children and experience some of the modern entertainment I guess to be "cool." Well, cool we are not for what you realize you are watching in the movies, the television, the Dr Phils, the Ellens, etc, etc is societal trash. Trying to watch a documentary this week on the making of SCARFACE and could not even watch that due to the perversion and killings and horrific language.
Graphic killing, gay and lesbian is now the norm, divorce is mocked as a cultural norm, special effects give me a headache and for me, as bad as any of it, is in these animated movies where nobody acts anymore but rather add voices to computer characters. Let me put it this way, I am pretty much done with movies and television. Really, what a phenomenal waste of time!
You can call me old, cynical, counting toward the end days, etc but fact is, if this junk is all our children and grandchildren have to fill their minds, not wonder divorce rates skyrocket still, a normal husband and wife family with children all at time is a unique and often time scoffed at. My grand daughters love to watch Disney television. As the Poppy, I watch it with them but what I see program after program is some of the same junk I speak of above. Smart-mouthed kids, disrepectful to and from parents with their children, again the gay / lesbian interfaces colored as normal. Try to imagine the images being formulated in the minds of our grandchildren for what equates to "normal."
I used to laugh when people would talk about disconnecting their televisions or never going to a movie. I am now there! The first and probably last movie in saw the last ten years that I thought worthy of positive comment, was CAPTAIN PHILLIPPS. It was action packed, suspenseful, well acted and kept my attention. YES! My wife rented three DVDs of some relatively new movies we have already watched and all three deserve the trashcan instead of returning to the store. WHAT A WONDERFUL LIFE, TARZAN, epics like LAWRENCE OF ARABIA or PATTON are no more! Drugs, profanity, blatant sex, gay and lesbian sex, disrespect; all the new norm. I tried to watch Ellen DeGeneres yesterday, openly gay and going through a "divorce" from her lover, interviewing this openly gay man talking about how much he loved his "husband." I immediately was sickened by the mockery of marriage and proper, God-blessed relationships and just turned the TV off. I have realized that Dr PHIL is an upscale, HD version of Jerry Springer all focusing on the depravity of Man. The list just gets longer.
I find myself this day thinking over just this week just how sick and tired of the junk and you cannot call it anything but junk! I want better for the children of this generation for project the value systems formulating in them today into what their children will be viewing and processing? I believe, hope, we are a better nation than this but we are what we eat and we are what we allow into my minds. This mind-junk is just wrong on many fronts. When I stop and try to imagine the billions of dollars invested in this junk, the commercials, many of which are suggestive in themselves, I just shiver at the impact of what is being developed in the minds of our future! The SIMPSONS, FAMILY GUY, MODERN FAMILY, etc, etc are all simply terrible examples that depict humor and normalcy in our world today; how sad!
Alcohol, drugs, sex, perversion; all points of normalcy and presented in humor is just wrong. Then let us not forget the video games my grand children are starving to play laced with blatant violence and killings. It is all a cauldron of value equation I believe fo we are seeing the manifestation more and more frequently of kids killing kids fueled by what they learned from these games and trashy television. I would propose you take a day, any day and just get a good sample of the delicacies our children are being fed. Even now gay childrens' program characters are presented as gay. We will not even talk about commercials!
Your thoughts and input are sought and appreciated! I am a frustrated grandfather this morning.
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