TV Has Made Us All Monsters

 

This picture shows a religious family (drawn in Norman Rockwell Style) praying at the table, ignoring the starving African child. While one of the points of the drawing is about how we in our comfortable settings can easily ignore poverty, even in prayer, yet the commentary is deeper still.

The title of this picture is: TV has Made Us All Monsters. It isn't just that we can ignore poverty, but that because poverty, war and famine have been displayed in the same context as our most trite entertainment, that we have found it easy to ignore. When everything is presented in 15 second sound bites, we cannot become compassionate about anything. We ignore the face of poverty because the medium is commanding us to look at the very next thing.

For more sad commentary on how television has influenced our society, go to my blog "Radical Teachings for the 21st Century" and look up the posts labeled "Entertainment Revolution"