Halftime Confusion

For some reason this photo of our Redbone Coonhound made me think of the half-time show of the Super Bowl.  I'll leave it to you to speculate why.

It was not a show that appealed to my taste; it was reminiscent of what one might expect at Carnivale in Rio de Janeiro -- which fits when you think about it.  You had a couple of Latina performers in a carnival atmosphere doing what they do -- performing.

Was it appropriate for television?  Hmmm....they put about anything and everything on television these days.  It used to be there were much tighter controls on language and content.  Those controls seem to have slipped until, unless you are watching an old show, you never know what might come across.

It was symptomatic of the confusion regarding sexuality in this country -- especially adding to the confusion for young people.  It's not alone in doing so.  It seems typical that costumes barely cover the ladies and are skin tight whereas the men (not many actors that can be put into that category any more) often wear loose-fitting clothes that adequately cover them.  That applies to swimwear also.  It seems the female gender is encouraged to wear as little as possible and the males are fully covered with lots of material.  It all sends the message to the youngsters, whose view of the opposite gender is in a formative stage, that the female has one purpose.

Add to that the number of single-parent and mixed parentage families and the confusion grows.  Moral boundaries have been crossed to the point that anything is fair game.  It's no wonder there is a global crisis in human trafficking.  Our kids are being raised to see other humans as objects to be used for their pleasure and therefore, their worth as humans is merely what they can do for you -- how they can be used.

I haven't stated any of this very clearly but, hopefully, my intended thoughts are coming through.  Simply put, you can't have it both ways; if you are to have value then you must value others on the same basis.  I suspect the intent of the halftime show was to convey "having fun" but, instead, to many it came across as the type of "fun" to be found in seedy joints in the less reputable part of town.  I don't know that it was meant to "shock" the sensibilities of those who adhere to the values that were once prevalent; it likely never occurred to the performers that it would do so. 

That halftime show was simply symptomatic of the deep cultural war in this country.  That cultural war is merely the latest iteration of the age-old war that began prior to Creation -- it is the war between good and evil -- right and wrong -- God and Satan.  It entered humanity in the Garden of Eden when man chose "self" over God.  Again, you can't have it both ways.  Our value is in the eyes of our creator and we should treat each other as a creation of God -- not an object to be used for our self gratification.

"Do to others as you would have them do to you." -- John 3:16