Stop scaring the children!
Common Sense University has expressed many times our deep disgust with the news media, whether the print, the television medias or even the movie industry in general. For us the saying holds true: “They don’t make them like they used to”. Many years ago, the individuals in these industries had a few rules and virtues that are totally missing today: Character, Decency and Integrity! Apparently, they are no longer required to get a job there. One could argue that there are exceptions to the rule and that somebody still has an ounce of integrity or even decency but you really have to look long and hard. It seems that sensationalism is the order of the day and doing it the fastest gets the prize and with it the money and ‘honor’, if one can call it that.
Without going into extensive research as to its origin, the news and entertainment media as a whole has decided that the public is only interested in the sensational, the gory and the scariest news it can deliver, and consequently, so it does. And we cannot argue that they might not be right to a degree. As they say in the newspaper/television industries: If it bleeds, it leads! Meaning, the greater the number of casualties or horror, the bigger the story. We here at Common Sense University count the entire global warming myth a part of this hyping of scary things to come. Predicting the future has always been a fascinating element of human endeavor through all the ages. And the global warming scaremongering is simply a story that keeps on giving. Maybe it is a sign of our times, we really do not know, but we have strong objections when it goes too far and we believe we have found one that meets this criterion.
For many years, by way of the media, people have been told about predictions and one of the most cited seer or if you will, astrologer was a man who lived in France from 1503 until 1566 by the name of Nostradamus. But there also has been the “Mayan calendar” produced over a thousand years ago that showed there could be the end of the world as we know it by December 21, 2012. While Monsieur Nostradamus did not give us this specific date, he also put the end of the world approximately in our near future. While there is no question as to the advances by the ancient Mayans in astronomy, alignments of stars and the like, the so called quatrains of Nostradamus are only meaningful in hindsight and never specific predictions ahead of actual events.
But the proximity to the Mayan ‘end of the world’ prediction is incredible fodder for the newsmakers and scaremongers in the world. After all, it is barely more than three years from now that it will be all over for us on this planet. That is, if we were to believe this! Rarely a day goes by when a variety of television channels do not bring so called documentaries and ’specials’ about these times. Experts in the many possibilities of what is to come can be seen expressing their opinions in those shows with an admirable amount of seriousness as they share their knowledge with us. And we know the old adage: If it is told enough times, it must be true! Of course, there is always the trusty remote control when it gets to be too much and one can either switch channels or turn the television set off.
While we have had disaster movies for a very long time like the Oscar winning film Titanic about a decade ago, a German film maker has now arrived on the scene with the latest such movie by the title: 2012. A nearly three hour film showing us exactly what will happen when we reach the year 2012. It is entertaining and scary at times and people love the film. What we find very upsetting about all this is the fact that it is apparently scaring the children as well and not insignificantly. They are wondering now if their lives will end in three years and that to us is the really scary thing! All the other previous disaster movies showed us episodes of past events or at least did not put a time to it. We live with the reality that earthquakes can happen as well as floods, volcanic eruptions and so on, but we have now a film that puts the end of the world in front of us in the very near future. When one considers all the hype of global warming and link this together, and let’s not fool ourselves, the kids hear plenty of this stuff in school from their teachers. Is it any wonder that we have now reached a point in time when our young generation is getting unnecessarily scared about their future and we should stop it? It has gone too far and should be stopped. We cannot on the one hand tell our children that their future is bright and rosy and then barrage them with non-fiction based global warming warnings and now show them a movie that ends it all in three years.
It is very ironic that children are being taught in schools today to believe such things while their faith in God is questioned and even ridiculed. After all, how do we know God exists when no one has ever seen him, right? But then the children are exposed and influenced to believe that the world is coming to an end. It is high time to get back to true common sense and reality.
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