TV Shaping Our Values

4.17.13

I found that MASH reruns are on and now

I tape them or oh right that was the olden days

Now I DVR them. I remember them all

Watched each one at least a dozen times

But the message is never old, just like

The original Star Trek. These shows shaped

My values just as much as going to a

Lutheran church before there was the teaching

Of hate of the other, before there was

Focus on sins, rather than on being a good

Person, when WWJD really meant something

I am not oppressed by my religious upbringing

But informed by it just like by some TV shows

That actually had a message along with humor

Or pathos. I wonder what will become

Of the generation who thinks that being a teen mom

Or a hillbilly fisherman is better than being a

Humanitarian or realizing that we don’t have to

Look alike to love alike.