Truth from the Tube

Take that, mothers everywhere. Take that, I say. I have discovered that you can learn something from television after all. So I have to blog about this before my inspiration goes away. (lol)

Watching the latest episode of Bones, in which a wealthy little girl who goes to a prestigious private school, who shall be known as Billie Mae Ashley Sparkly Tiffany, was discovered by her "manny" (lol that word is hilarious) to be cheating at some school project (probably a research paper on demented homeschoolers) and so she pumped him full of lead. And no, I don't mean that as in Xmen 2, kill Ms. Oh-Look-I'm-Invincible with molten lead. I mean she filled the manny with buckshot from a rifle. So the parents are sitting down with Booth (I'm sorry but that man is beautiful >.>) and Brennan who're like "Hah, your kid is a murderer and mommy is going to jail, sucks for you". Daddy starts blaming everything on Mommy and Ms Sparkly Tiffany sits there looking pretty (Somewhat like the vampire in Twilight, and no, don't worry, I haven't seen the movie. I'm still somewhat sane). Mommy blames everything on her motherly instinct. She had to "protect her daughter". At this point, Brennen leans over and says "It's counter-productive to raise children in a world without consequences".

So let me get this straight. Children should be disciplined? We should be taught that whatever we do has a consequence, moral or legal? Funny, that's not what society seems to think.

Today's culture is plagued by moral relativity and a lack of objective truth. Everyone is ok to "do their own thing" as long as "it makes you feel good". You should be allowed to do whatever is comfortable. Throw out morality, ethics, and every thing that hinders your quest for happiness. There are no consequences for the choices you make. If you feel like doing drugs, that's ok. If you want to sleep around, go ahead, as long as your happy. If you want to fly into town in your fancy jet plane to ask the government for money for your company, while everyone on the bottom of the corporate ladder is losing their home, it's all good. If you want to have someone reach into you and snap your baby's neck with pliers while it's still alive and then suck out all its pieces, it's all fine and dandy as long as that baby in your womb doesn't stop you from doing whatever you want.

I find the lack of ethics in this country disturbing. And its not that I want everyone to be religious and pious. If you want to believe in some other religion, or don't want to believe in anything at all, go ahead. But c'mon people, don't you have any morality? What happened to ethics? What happened to "Treat everyone as you would yourself"? What happened to doing the right thing?

No, but now, moral relativity is the prevalent religion. There is no right or wrong, it's all about whatever you want to believe. Now listen, I'm not about forcing my views on anyone. I'm not saying that I want everyone to believe as I believe. That's not what I mean. What I mean is this:

There is truth. There are facts. Logical, reasonable, rational, facts. And to deny them is to be unrealistic and fanciful.

There is a truth that you cannot deny. There is no "subjective truth". There is only an objective truth.

I can throw a rock at your head, and even if you deny it, even if you believe that the rock did not hit your head, it did. It doesn't matter what you believe, the rock hit your head, and I threw it. Therefore subjective truth cannot exist.

There is a truth. There is a right and a wrong. Society, please, get your facts straight and stop pretending that you don't know one from the other.

I'm rambling now, I know, but this is a way for me to vent whatever I have lodged up in my head.

So this whole rant sprang from one sentence on a tv show. Thank you television, for giving me material to start rambling on about.