Entertainment, Exploitation.

14 June 2017.

Being born and raised in LA has made many things very normal to me such as endless sunny days, traffic, and the news being partly a commercial for all things Industry. The biggest story right now is being splattered across every trashy magazine (which I can avoid if I just stick to shopping at Trader Joe's). Everyone is talking about a very popular dating show being abruptly taken off production. Allegations of misconduct have surfaced and a woman who had previously been painted as a villain in past shows is now in real life, a victim. People are surprised and shocked! Pure outrage. 

Yet, I turn the channel and hear banter on a talk show on how Katy Perry "rated" her exes performances in the bedroom. There is laughing and snickering all while there is outrage just on the next channel about someone being misused for entertainment. It's all over the place, misuse of people's bodies everywhere. They're rated, they're changed, they're gawked at. The pain of these victims ooze out of the smoggy foothills of LA and stream into the abyss of the mass media and doesn't even reach the surface of reality. Lines become blurred because us consumers are the ones who blur them. We choose to tap, click, subscribe when we should be choosing stop, think, and question.

The shaky cameras act as a frame on T.V., we must not forget they are real people, real souls. When we forget what they truly are they become pawns to our own satisfaction. Repeating, "Oh Thank God I'm not that messed up".

I urge you to look in the mirror. Don't even take a chance to look at that one flaw. But instead, witness yourself as a child of God and the pleasure He finds in your soul. The way He looks at our soul is how we should look at each others. As a soul, not a body. Our bodies are meant to act as vessels to act in his grace, nothing more, nothing less.

The purpose of our bodies is to not entertain one another but to move each other towards His arms. To act on his behalf and praise him through our bodies.