Progress: It'll get ya

Fire of Liberty

Jonah Goldberg has written a wonderful column on how progress can be a good thing but can also be a hindrance to man at the same time. I guess you could look at it this way. While the advent of satellite television provides countless homes with twenty-four hours of movies, crime-dramas, news, educational shows as well as music provides us countless hours of entertainment and a bevy of information it also has a way of corrupting society. Think about it, when kids get home from school they turn on the tube while parents are at work and watch countless hours of nonsense as well as inappropriate material that tends to lead to their dumbing down and causing corrupt behavior. Even worse, when most parents (not all) get home, they also sack out on the couch and watch hours of television while never taking time to talk to their kids and see what's going on in their life. Therefore, television is great but it tends to contribute to the moral/social decay of this nation, its youth as well as the whole family structure. Though television is a small aspect of this moral/social decay, it's a chief example of how progress can be a millstone on society eventually.

Read Jonah's piece, that's why he's the columnist and I'm the blogger.