“First thing is to get our schools back (or kids OUT) and put God back into our Churches.”
I wonder if the first thing isn’t to get our media back.
I was watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the other day, and my seven-year-old girl asked me if the two criminals were the good guys or the bad guys.
That made me think about how hollyweird gradually slipped in the “anti-hero,” then gradually morphed them into the heroes. Butch and Sundance are the heroes of the movie, criminals though they are. How about “The Graduate,” in which the “hero” engages in adultery then tries to marry his accomplice’s daughter?
How can we recover when half the population is deceived as to the facts of every event and issue by all segments of the media?
The other night I was having a pleasant conversation with a stranger when the topic turned to the theater shooting in Colorado. I remarked that, had a citizen had a concealed weapon, the casualty count could perhaps have been limited to one — the shooter. At that, all rationality left his face. He became furious, stood up, put his coat on, and stormed out muttering something about how such an armed citizen would have killed “three or four” people while trying to hit the shooter.
I never got a chance to point out that “three or four” would have been an improvement, much less ask him why he thought that would have happened. His opinion was hardened to the point of irrationality, and there would have been no point in trying to reason with him.
The schools play a role in such brainwashing, yes, but I blame the media more.
...and who educated the media?
I never got a chance to point out that “three or four” would have been an improvement, much less ask him why he thought that would have happened. His opinion was hardened to the point of irrationality, and there would have been no point in trying to reason with him.
Wow...thanks for posting that item. Shows what has happened to people.