Our Trumanistic Lifestyles Contd.

I am going to start back up with the quote I left off with, so we can get back into the idea of it better. "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented, it's as simple as that." Isn't that so true of our lives today, that would describe perfectly the reason why the American culture has become so corrupt, surreal and artificial. Things such as the internet, television, and the media, have obviously caused an increase in problems such as divorce, teen issues, the dissipation of family life, immodesty, language and violence. We accept them because they are the world with which we are presented. Nobody doubts the goodness or benefits or normality of the individualistic, materialistic, and selfish reality of what technology has to offer. I am not the only one out there who is worried about the state of things. American Psychiatric Assoc. is noticing the effects of technology like TV, when they said, " By the time a child graduates he or she will have witnessed 200,000 violent acts including 16,000 simulated murders." That is just to list one of the many examples, not only that but Ted Turner, founder of CNN shows concern saying, "Television is the single most significant factor contributing to violence in America." Is that bad or what? Violence is not the only bad influence the media has had on America. Think about immodesty and immorality. I have really been experiencing this on a personal level. I was reading the Readers Digest the other day, which is one of my favorite magazines, and as I was scrolling through the pages I flipped open to a page with an ad for Dove lotion or shampoo or something, and it was a completely stark naked middle aged lady, sitting there showing off her "shiny" skin to the world. I looked at it and quickly turned the page and didn't even think twice. I remembered that experience as I was writing this and I thought to myself "You are pathetic, you are absolutely ridiculous, that you could see a picture of a naked woman and merely turn the page, block it of from your thoughts as if it were the most normal thing in the world." I realized from my reaction that I too am falling into the trap of thinking that disrespecting a woman and her body for the sake of an ad is not a completely wrong, perverted, corrupt and sick thing to do. But what is even more sad is that people, all people Christians or non Christians are being so demoralized that we would not think twice about the immorality that is being shown to a woman and to the human race. This is the case in movies, magazines, internet and television. How many of us have favorite movies that contain language, sex, violence or any other immorality in it. We justify it though because it is cute or sweet or good. Even 50 years ago an average person would've been shocked to have seen a woman in a modern bikini walking around or on a billboard or magazine. Just as they have slipped in violence and language into our modern lives and made them perfectly normal, so they have done with immodesty, (or should I say nudity) and immorality. The signs are all around us, google it the evidence is there whether we search for it or not. Are we going to sit here and accept the circumstances and effects of the anti god of technology, the way that Truman could have accepted the anti god of Cristoph? Oh it is much easier to stay and enjoy it all, Truman could have stayed in Sea Haven, life was easy there, no problems to face with other people, perfect scenarios every day and so on, but he wanted truth and reality, he wanted to walk away from the pre-created, pre-planned, controlled life that he was in. Yes, it was hard, but he did it. Not only was it hard but it was a choice that had to be made only by him, it was a personal conviction between two lifestyles. He could not live in between, he had to choose one or the other, just as we must choose for ourselves. Are we going to accept the world of lies and fake happiness that consumes America, or are we going to choose to walk away from that little world of pleasure and ease and search for the truth of a media free, violence free, lifestyle. Are we going to be the Truman who came to the end of the wall and walked through the door to the truth, or are we going to stay in our little technology haven. That is what it all comes down to for you to decide, which Truman are you?