The show is called the Tyrant, and it is easily the most violent show I have ever seen. The images are just burned in my brain, and they are awful. While I was watching it, I kept thinking, this is terrible, I need to turn this off...but I kept watching. Now I need a week in the woods to clear my head out.
Our society has told the inventors of entertainment that we want to watch awful, violent things. Our society is reflected in the shows we watch and movies we attend. The most popular shows on TV are murder shows......police fighting crime, solving crime. Even Castle, which is one of my favorite shows, revolves around a corpse every week.
Wow...
However, I think I am Gandhi...I scoop bees out of the pool so they won't die, but yet I am watching murder and mayhem regularly. I am an enigma wrapped up in a riddle. Actually, we all are.
We watch housewives yell at each other and people who are famous just for being famous. All of our news comes wrapped up in folks angry just to be angry. If you weren't mad before you started watching the news, you sure as heck will be after you watch it. They talk over each other, stretch the truth to make their points, build straw men and call it reporting.
And we watch....and we watch.....and we watch.....
We blow up twitter and Facebook when we are ticked. We leave anomymous comments and then run like little kids.
We do things that really take our peace away.
As a friend said today, we can do one thing to create a more peaceful earth. What one thing can I do?
Do I give up Mark Harmon, Richard Castle and Tom Selleck? No more George Stephanopolis or Chris Wallace?
Well, I gave up the Tyrant for sure.....
I need to get my peace back....
Simple but true...
