There's a genre of TV shows called "Dramedies", meaning Drama-Comedies---TV shows with a combination of both elements. They're sort of like Soap-Operas for the 21st Century. I don't watch much TV personally, but I've caught parts of various TV shows either while flipping through the channels, or while some members of my family have been watching them in the next room. Particularly certain popular Dramedies like "Desperate Housewives", "The Secret Life of the American Teenager", "Glee", & "Make It or Break It"... And I think they're all worthless drivel.
First of all, they're all filled with sex...underage sex, premarital sex, casual sex, affairs... But far beyond that, they're absolutely overflowing with other aspects of what I call "Social Chaos": Gossip, cheating, back-stabbing, betrayal, black-mail, plotting, stealing, lying, assault, murder...
Why is this supposed to be entertaining?!
It's bad enough that so much of society seems to find these things entertaining--but what's even worse is that fact that so many otherwise morally upright people (who openly disapprove of the previously described vices in real life) find these things entertaining! If these things are so terrible, why is it okay to watch actors portraying these things?! Interesting plot twists, good acting, & well-written humor hardly make iniquity acceptable...
But the worst part of all is how these TV shows normalize & even glamorize Social Chaos...especially to young people. Some will object, citing that "TV doesn't force kids to do anything bad." Well, you're right. But when something is commonly watched on TV, when it's seen as enjoyable to watch, when so many people talk as if it's normal, when so many people think it's normal, & when so many people do it as something normal (and when parents, of all people, hypocritically engage in any or all of these things) it becomes normal to society. And at some point, far too many people start seeing these "bad" & "forbidden" things as being things that parents, teachers, & religious leaders decry, but that should "really" be expected as perfectly normal things in life.
Well guess what? These things shouldn't be expected! These things aren't a normal part of life! This things are deplorable social vices that are corrupting society! These things certainly aren't a part of my life! And if that makes my life "boring", then good! Because I'm much better off without these things in my life! I've got enough regular problems in my life to deal with! I know I'm on a rant, but the...normalization...of these horrible, despicable vices simply appalls me... The more obvious problems of society are bad enough, but coupled with these ever-more-common iniquities...
I don't mean to sound so cliché, but my heart just aches and bleeds with sorrow for the sins of the world...
"And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fullness of my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret abominations; and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fullness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fullness of my gospel from among them."
