I’ve noticed the news for a long time has been trying to vilify others in an attempt to instill a great sense of guilt and shame. It’s on any number of subjects, but usually around social, economic or environmental problems. The problem is that it’s ineffective at best and entirely misplaced, if not inauthentic, at worst.
I believe the media and by transference the general public are exclaiming this to an extreme extent, because at the heart of things, people do not feel successful. I believe this is directly related to the decline in public acceptance of Christianity. We’ve admonished and turned against each other. We do not feel loved, appreciated or understood. People don’t trust each other. In this hard economy, we’ve turned away from our bright future and have been trying to explain ourselves for the dark past: The economic shut-down. In this hard time, it stopped being about others and started being about ourselves.
These words that are shot into the airwaves every day are no longer about achieving legitimate social goals or equality, it’s about shaming those who don’t meet the ever-changing, perpetually unobtainable standards that are set in the way. In my opinion its true purpose is to weaken others. To seed doubt and social fear and confusion. Instead of building each other up, it’s been a race to the bottom.
I think leadership needs to emerge. I think we should look at the future. I think people need to stand up and recognize and fight what’s going on directly, and to do that you first need to understand what it is. I think we should talk about the successes of others, and relate to those that think differently than us. And finally, I think we should accept God again.
THOM ALAN WHITE
Hawley