The whole country is talking about the film Brokeback Mountain and it has created no tiny stir. On a Sun. morning TV editorial Charles Osgood indicated that Hollywood is not tying to put forth a gay liberal agenda but rather are interested only in the bottom line money. Though not inferred, it sounded like capturing the minds of adults or poisoning the minds of our youth was just an incidental that happened on the way to the bank. For over thirty years I have warned that it isn’t not just what we see on films that will influence us. Each film has a philosophy attached to it if it was intended or not. 

Sex, violence and profanity are blaringly obvious but subtle philosophies are becoming more obvious and are becoming more obvious and are much less subtle. 

The race for ticket office money isn’t all that fuels this raw open ended kind of expression in the flick industry. The mention of any sort of control [ even self control ] is had a meeting with cries of violated first modification rights and the old freedom of expression hype. It may appear a bit over used but remains true nevertheless that Hollywood has never bothered to discern the difference between freedom and license. 

A recent poll discovered that only one out of a thousand US people knows all of the rights our constitution provides for them. On average the poll said that the general public can name only one of our constitutional rights. Contrasted with that fact, it was found the same people could name 3 or more of the characters in the Television animated sitcom, The Simpsons. The bottom line says that movie makers know what their rights are but the movie viewing public either does not have an idea or they just don’t care. Anyone who thinks TV and Films don’t influence our society must be living in another country. Yet even that is not true. 

Another poll recently discovered that one of the explanations that pretty much every major country worldwide hates Americans is thanks to the film industry. All they know about America is what they see in the movies. Immorality, harebrained love, rebellion, crime, gay cowboys and general mayhem is all they see. Any country attempting to keep order and develop would naturally reject this kind of example and that is exactly what they do. 

Could we get Hollywood’s attention on this, not so far but maybe we could catch them on the way to the bank and let them aware. It is guessed that Americans will spend fifteen years roughly of their whole lives watching TV and Movies. Perhaps it is not reasonable to think John Q TV watching public is going to take any time out of their 15 years to snatch some Hollywood producers on their way to the bank. Perhaps they could protest a bit in the commercials which comprise about five of the 15 years of their TV and flick watching lives. Actors and others in the movie industry are paid massive sums of cash to do and say things most Americans don’t believe believe should ever be seen or let out. Are they showing us our mind, or is art coaxing life instead of imitating it. I suppose when actors or thespians are offered tiny fortunes to behave and talk badly they must think they are living right. They too probably laugh all the way to the bank. Most USA citizens don’t act like actors but Hollywood can afford to make them act any way they choose. It all appears Ok if the end [ the trip to the bank ] seems to explain the means. Some Americans are a bit sick of Hollywood advising a way to live rather than showing how they really live. The Bible isn’t sick of anything but has a lot to claim about how sick human behavior can become. Maybe it is best recounted by the bible regardless of whether Hollywood is listening or not. There’s a way which seemeth right unto a person, but the end thereof are the techniques of death. Proverbs 14:12

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