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January 15, 2008

It Really Doesn't Matter - Does It?

A couple thoughts are on my mind today. First, Jeff at Rigorous Intuition offers a very interesting opinion on the Presidential race: He says it really doesn't matter who wins the election in November.

The outcome of this contest for advancement upon our lives - American lives and everyone else with a seat at the arena - will mean just as much as who wins the Super Bowl or the Oscar, should we have any emotional investment in the outcome of those contests. Because the only change to be registered will be how we feel about it.

I hope that's not true, and that we're not that shallow a people. And that brings me to the second thing weighing on my mind. For several months now I've been working 7 days a week, from 8:00 a.m. until nearly midnight, and virtually never watching television. Instead, I spend a good deal of time every day interacting with a wide variety of people from all over the country. Every day I see the America I have always known with its real people - its good people.

But whenever I watch the news or television programming or movies, I get a very different view of Americans. The perspective I see in the media is of an America in dire need of judgment. It is vindictive, hateful, shallow, stupid, greedy, self-indulgent, thoughtless, cruel, and phony. It is a stomach-turning spectacle.

One that I think it's time we all quit believing.

Posted by Becky at January 15, 2008 10:25 PM