Check your television programing.
Do you see much that is uplifting? I don’t.
I see many programs dealing with hatred, fear and violence. Meanwhile they are telling you that you need a new car, new house (stainless steel, granite counter tops and hardwood floors) or medication to make you ‘whole’ again.
Not only is television selling products, it is selling despair to every home in this nation; without God, without joy, without peace.
Yours is an astute observation. It pays to be aware of the memes, the main recurrent themes that are being pushed out across our media, arts and our educational institutions.
The aim is to create emptiness and hopelessness. The question then becomes: what is to fill that emptiness and redeem that hopelessness? The answer is the stuff of nightmares.