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Has anyone else found themselves so morally repulsed by the belief systems and ideology sold by the media that they have started to turn against it?
I saw an interview with an older reporter once. He was telling a story about a deceased friend of his who had been a fellow reporter. During the Nixon Kennedy election this reporter was assigned to travel with the Kennedy press group. He had sort of kidded his friend that he was stuck having to travel with the Nixon press entourage. His friend said, "I think I can do Jack more good there".
Back in the days when communism was seen as a bad thing, these people were called "fellow travelers". They see themselves as political activists rather than agents of a new religion. I call it a religion, secularism, the worship of man in general and self in particular. They say that secularism is the absence of religion and thus superior, but then all people feel their religion is truth and all others inferior.
Most of the so-called entertainment programs on TV are a series of sock puppet characters that lecture us on issues important to the advocates of this new religion such as women empowerment, wheelchair access, environmental activism, animal rights, homosexual endorsement, and a host of other politically correct issues that seem to grow daily.
As a Christian I see this mindless homogenization as part of a larger trend. I see a diabolical hand behind the push to move us from a family oriented life into the new age of a utopian socialist state.
I understand that many do not share my religious view. However, I think that most can see that music that is uninteresting and even irritating, entertainment that is a series of scolding lectures, and news that is nothing more than a political rant from the left is particularly unsatisfying to the media consumer.
We have been buying old movies and TV series so that we can watch what we like since it appears that what is current in media is only going to get worse.