Thursday, September 9, 2010
Where Has the Decency Gone?
What is on my heart today is this: what has happened to us? Where did our sense of decency go? There was a day where is was considered riskee for a woman to even show her ankle, and today so many women run around in public wearing little more than underwear. In the early days of tv you had wholesome family shows like Andy Griffith and I love Lucy, just to name a couple. Now there is barely even anything censored anymore. Shows like Desperate Housewives are popular. Even people who were not churchgoers were still decent, moral people. Today many Christians do things that would not even be thought of just a few generations ago. I just wonder what happened to us. How did we get to the point we are? I dont have a lot to say today, but thats what was on my heart.
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All so true, and so sad.
ReplyDeleteSpecial Ed books have entire chapters dedicated helping special needs students understand pronouns. I ran the course before Special Ed was available but there is no doubt I would have been a Special Ed Student if it had been available. Pronouns still confuse me. Who is, "us?" At no time in any cultural history has the world seen uniform behavior within or between classes. I certainly didn't see it when the censor comittees were keeping their vigilant eyes on Andy and Helen.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there has never been uniform behavior. I guess what I mean by "us" is society as a whole. Let me explain like this: the bar for where decency crosses into indecency has been lowered significantly. Things that indecent people used to do is widely accepted by "decent" people today. Does that help make my point a little more clear? Feel free to keep the discussion going. I welcome it!
ReplyDeleteThe "wholesome decency" of the TV shows you mentioned was accomplished through intense censorship. A select group of people deciding for all of us if married couples are allowed to share one bed, etc., etc. Forgive me, but I trust Human Nature far more than I trust Comittee Nature.
ReplyDeleteBut part of Human Nature is the need for boundaries. Culture is our most traditional source of boundaries. The elusive "Us." Ever more elusive with the Globalization of technology and constant barrage of our Information Age. 1950s TV was the beginning of that Globalization, but it scarcely characterized the whole of WASP America, much less the entire world. Yes, it gets confusing, but I still believe I need to let all God's children be and keep my need for boundaries personal.