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Television brims with trash that caters to a debased world that craves further debasement, or is easily tempted into it. I have sometimes found humor–which should have been sadness–in the inadvertent insights that the characters in fictional shows represent. Consider the overgrown child in the “Mad TV” program, and the precocious boy child of “The Simpsons”.
The former is a drooling twit dressed in nappies or tight kiddie clothes, with a possessive domineering mother who can’t recognize that she has a hand in keeping her child irresponsible. He fumbles around in each scene, and suddenly bursts out, “Look what I can do! Look what I can do!” which turns out to be something without the least meaning, like jumping erratically. This unwittingly represents the Adult who is a Perennial Child, unwilling to accept true maturity. The laughter of the audience reflects their painful desire to avoid the reality that this is how they would like to act.
The latter is a crafty and saucy kid with the trashy insights of crass adults combined with the selfishness of modern childhood. He knows how to trick adults into accepting gleefully their worst sins, and how to plot his way to the bottom. This unwittingly represents the Child who is Prematurely Adult, unwilling to accept innocence. The laughter of the audience reflects their wish to have innocence erased, as it presents a challenge too great to meet.
Those two characters present the continuum of sin, from rejected innocence to refused maturity. Without the true faith, society gratifies itself in revealing ways that foster the descent.
Matthew 12:36: But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.
The former is a drooling twit dressed in nappies or tight kiddie clothes, with a possessive domineering mother who can’t recognize that she has a hand in keeping her child irresponsible. He fumbles around in each scene, and suddenly bursts out, “Look what I can do! Look what I can do!” which turns out to be something without the least meaning, like jumping erratically. This unwittingly represents the Adult who is a Perennial Child, unwilling to accept true maturity. The laughter of the audience reflects their painful desire to avoid the reality that this is how they would like to act.
The latter is a crafty and saucy kid with the trashy insights of crass adults combined with the selfishness of modern childhood. He knows how to trick adults into accepting gleefully their worst sins, and how to plot his way to the bottom. This unwittingly represents the Child who is Prematurely Adult, unwilling to accept innocence. The laughter of the audience reflects their wish to have innocence erased, as it presents a challenge too great to meet.
Those two characters present the continuum of sin, from rejected innocence to refused maturity. Without the true faith, society gratifies itself in revealing ways that foster the descent.
Matthew 12:36: But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.
