What is Religion? (Part Eleven)
TV and the increasing invasion of the ‘real world’ is reducing the time a child can spend developing imagination, in finding their creativity while simultaneously force-feeding them models of behavior that would seem inappropriate for the young.
Six year olds should not be worrying over whether their figure is of a sort to attract a boy or girl friend. Sex is something that comes along as the body fires up for the passage into adult status, yet we constantly have adult sexual imagery and plotlines being fed to those who have yet to develop the equipment needed to express such things.
Children very quickly move away from the fantasy worlds of children’s programs and from an early age are exposed to adult programming. Sex and violence are common themes during times children are awake and watching.
Society makes noises about how we condemn the view of women as sex objects, (whatever they are) yet music videos show and do everything except naked copulation in front of young eyes. How many people bar their kids from watching music shows?
So we reach a situation where even the children no longer have the ‘eyes of a child’ through which to perceive the wonders of our Universe. This leads to a darker view of the world around, to seeing an environment where there is little wonder and where the darker side of human nature is the paramount expression of life.
Explorations into the psyche, the world as expressed through Quantum probability, and the recent popular movie ‘The Secret’ all suggest there is much to be learned from what the religions and sages have told us about how things come to us.
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