As I sit here listening to my wife's latest show she has taken to watching. I can't help but think about how this latest trend has gone...well silly and disturbing in one movement. We as a society have grown ingress fascinated with what was once a terror. Vampires, psychopathic killers, zombies, and cults have become mainstream. "Reality " TV "stars " and self absorbed sports and entertainment personalities have become our heroes. We as a nation have developed the entitlement attitude and lost the concept that our nation's pursuit of happiness is meant to be earned and not given. What is worse about the whole blessed ordeal is we don't seem to take responsibility for our own actions or lack there of. Its frustrating, sad, and I hope I am able to teach my kids how to correct where we went wrong. Because sadly, I think it will be up to them to fix it.
Couldn't have written it better, television/networks and movies have given us a completely slanted and incorrect view of 98% of the real world out there, and the worst part is, the impressionable kids buy it and try to make it their reality. Disney Jr and Nick Jr have an unhealthy effect on the speech, decisions, attitudes and language of my stepchildren, for sure, it's NOT just entertainment.
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