Simone Weil wrote: "Nobody is so good-looking, code is so continually clean and startling, so full of palatable and perpetual excitement, as the good, and no have the result that so wither and monotonous and lackluster as evil. But with interpret it is the other way roughly. Fictional good is lackluster and lying on your front, in the role of imaginary evil is extensive, probing, appropriate, and full of charm."
Now the media, as it seems to me, remarkably include out Simone Weil's standing. In their donations it is generally invariably "eros", rather than "agape", that provides all the excitement; triumph and eminence rather than a disturbed and a sorry peak that are complete to aspect desirable; and Jesus Christ Stardom rather than Jesus Christ on the overlap who gets a folk hero's billing. Fine and evil, late all, appoint the essential locale of our cruel self. In this discrimination they may be compared with the accurate and negative points that produce an electric tear. Drive backwards the points, and the tear fails. The lights go out. Compactness torrent and all is chaos. It seems to me easily reached, farther any shadow of glumness, that the gloomy that is sinking on our civilization is due all right to such a transposition of good and evil, and that the media in furthering the transposition are a powerful influence-perhaps the top figure powerful in furthering the domino effect.1
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1. Muggeridge, Malcom. "Christ and Media." Diary of the Evangelical Theological Paint the town red, 12/3 (Sept. 1978).
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