Whose Mind Is It Anyway?

How many hours of TV do you watch every week? What about YouTube or Godtube or Vine.  What are you reading?  Do you spend a lot of time scrolling?  Obviously, these are rhetorical questions.  Many people couldn’t even answer instantly because we live in such a media saturated culture.

For many US Americans, it’s rare to be unplugged.  My initial question is really important.  There are five entities that control most of the media in our country.  From the stories we consider news to those we deem entertainment, we submit to someone else’s imagination.  There is some really dark stuff out there.  There is some seriously funny stuff too.  I often find myself asking, “Who thinks of this stuff?”

What we put into our minds does impact the way we think.  Subtle influences are coloring our view of situations and even faced with cold hard facts, we interpret information through the filters of our minds.

So, if we are to be free, we must ask ourselves what we are allowing into our minds.  Otherwise we become drones, mindless surfs carrying out the dictates of a small group of individuals that may or may not even be aware that they have such power.  I find it incomprehensible that the leaders of mass media are not fully aware of their awesome power.

It seems like a set up.  There is a huge disparity of thought in our country about what it means to be free, about work and wages, about enterprise and value, about the most basic threads of our social fabric.

The value of human life has been utterly decimated in the minds of people in subtle ways and in overt campaigns.  The very thought that one person is allowed to kill another, so long as the one to be killed is very small and completely helpless.  This has been the law by Judicial Activism for so long that many people don’t even think of the disparity of force that exists.

The subsequent devaluation of humans through all kinds of media and the degrading conditions that exist around the world lend itself to brutality of all kinds.  From the kidnapping and repeated selling of children for use as sexual gratification to violent, sadistic, ritualistic  types of killings we see, the world is a very scary place.

How do we provide for the safety and security of people?  Is this even a possibility?  I’m beginning to think it may not be.  It seems we are ever closer to the days of Noah, indicated in the Scriptures, when every intent of the hearts of men were evil continually.

There is hope though.  Maybe only for the few that will access it.  It is held in whose mind we pay attention to.  The Word says that God has plans to prosper us, to give us a hope and a future.  Most of us choose what we put in our minds.  Most of us can choose to think about things that make the world a better place.

Within our circle of influence, we can think about the immense value of people and display the attitudes of honor, dignity and veneration in that way we act, the things we say, the words we write and in all that we produce.  We, each, make the world a better place.

How do you think we can make the world a better place?