What is there to be confused about the declining interest in professional sports, Hollywood and the entertainment industry? It’s very obvious: you’ve alienated your audience.
I used to sit down in the early fall with my calendar and mark off all of the NFL games I cared about, every Sunday, Monday, Thursday and holiday game for the next five or six months, and my calendar was set around them. Seriously. And there were a lot of teams I loved to follow, so it was two or three days a week appointments for me that everything else had to flex around. (I actually left church early to make the noon games.)
I want to thank the entertainment industry, (because sports is really just another form of entertainment), for commandeering the social and media chatter for your liberal views. It forced me to do what I should have done a long time ago: reevaluate my priorities. When I was just being entertained, it didn’t seem to matter as much. The average American looks forward to pleasant distractions from the tedious mundane of work, responsibilities and various crises. I could unplug from whatever daily or weekly stresses around me, settle down with some friends and family, and watch some action packed football, or a movie, or listen to some music.
But when my entertainment began screaming and preaching at me with views and ideologies that countered my own, I was less entertained and more taken aback. I happen to love my country, while still hating its sins. I happen to love my God, while recognizing His human followers misrepresent Him at alarming rates. I love my Constitutional rights and don’t really want to abrogate them. I think being born in America gives me certain rights and privileges because its foundation established and guaranteed that. Men and women sacrificed comfort, health, money, careers and dreams; they bled and died to give me that. Those are kind of big deals to me.
I want to live out my convictions with freedom, insofar as they don’t infringe on yours. It is of utmost importance to me that my life reflects the tenets of my faith, that I live in such a way to bring honor to my God, that I can receive the reward of a child who has pleased her parent. This is what governs my life, or is what I try to govern my life.
And you came in with all your unrealistic, well, BS, and lauded it over your platforms. You disgraced the working Americans that pay your salaries because they buy your entertainment. You acted like you knew everything, and anyone who had different opinions or convictions than you were worthless, somehow beneath you…dare I say “deplorable”? A high school graduated NBA player had the audacity to call those who differ with him “uneducated”1. (And he did it with such poor grammar! How did he keep a straight face?? “…they “say things that’s uneducated”…(sic) That would be that ARE uneducated, LeBron. And the “people of Ohio wasn’t educated”…(sic again) That would be WEREN’T educated.)
And the media just keeps pandering this crap! It’s like they think the more they say their propaganda, the more we’re going to be inclined to believe it. Seriously, we generally don’t care what thugs think. Usually when thugs open their mouths, it reinforces our beliefs. Consider Michael Bennett’s crying wolf, I mean racism2. He was caught lying. There’s no honor in that. We don’t rush out to buy your jersey because you’re an imagined “victim” of a fabricated “crime”. In fact, we’re inclined to burn it. But the NFL awards it.3
You’ve used your platforms to further your insane, narcissistic agenda, and we just don’t want to watch anymore. We don’t believe you. We don’t agree with you. We don’t even really care. You’ve demonstrated everything we disagree with.
So your Emmys and your Grammys and your various “awards” (basically patting each other on the back), and your games, well, they’re less important to us now. Sure, I’ll watch a movie; I still like to be entertained. But I’ll wait until it’s on Netflix, or Amazon, or at the Redbox. I don’t need to line your pockets with the very thing that has inflated your ego and warped your thinking. And I’ll watch the games I want to watch, because I still like a good game. But I won’t buy your merchandise, or tickets to your stadiums, or anything else that reinforces your sacrilege of the convictions that guide my life.
But really, I’m grateful. It shook me out of my complacency, dare I say even some apathy. It caused me to ask myself how far I was going to absorb before I pushed back. It caused me to consider why I spend time and money on some things. It caused me to evaluate my convictions and if my life was accurately reflecting them. And I found I needed to change. I could use some improvement.
This country wasn’t built on people who absorbed the rantings of madmen because it was more comfortable and less costly not to address the fallacies. It was built on men and women who labored in town halls, in churches, in neighbor’s fields and homes, hammering out what a free nation would look like. These men and women worked in the fields, in the mercantile, and on the streets, and then worked some more when they were done. They forewent entertainment and luxuries, sleep and proper healthcare because the task before them was bigger than their personal matters. They took up arms when they had to, but preferred to take up pens and pulpits and lecterns and streets.
So the time freed up for me to do more honorable and noble things is invaluable. It matters. I found that my entertainment had become an idol. And the only thing an idol is good for is tearing down. It keeps one from the true God. So really, your belligerent insistence on forcing your woefully shortsighted ideas upon me actually woke me up.
And I would encourage all men and women everywhere, to consider the newfound freedom one can gain by turning off the voices of insanity, through the entertainment industry, the political machine, and especially a rogue media. Do an honest evaluation of your convictions and see if you’re living them. Make corrections where necessary. Make amends where appropriate. Look for healthier venues for your time, your money, your resources. Look for venues that reinforce your beliefs. Shop a small business instead of a chain. Support your local college sports instead of professional. Look for and find the voices you can align with, then align with them. Let those sources be the voices you listen to. Shut off the others.
A pretty simple yet brilliant idea to crowdfund the wall was reported here http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/crowdfund_the_wall.html. Imagine the fundraisers we could do to help with this. Imagine getting politics out of the way, and the American people actually providing for and building our own border defense! There’s so much to do and be done, that there’s really no reason to waste our time on frivolous temper tantrums of a spoiled bunch of overpaid entertainment personalities.
Let the irrational somehow get the clue that there is a majority of American citizens with actual American interests at heart. We’re not ashamed of our heritage, but we’d like to fix some problems. We’re not ashamed of our God. We’re not ashamed of our President. We’re not apologizing for who we are, but we are quick to apologize for wrong actions we have done. May the entertainment industry continue to decline in its self-aggrandizing ceremonies, and may the noble citizens of America be self-effacing yet still diligent in preserving the integrity of the nation we love.
2 https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/michael-bennett-lying/
Greetings ! I wish you would write more often !
God bless you in all ways , especially in your gift of writing .
Thank you Wanda! May the Lord bless you and yours abundantly!
Thank you too for your words, brother!
All of the world is being filtered down, down, down into the filtration system of the Sacred Scriptures, for as we who have been called unto the Father in Master Yahushua rise to the spiritual belief: “THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL really must be made to COUNT in my life especially in these days!”
Peter is so gifted by the Holy Spirit, as he writes these thoughts:
“For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering WRONGFULLY. 20: For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted FOR YOUR OWN FAULTS, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for IT, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with [Yahuwah]. 21: For even hereunto were ye called: because [Messiah] also suffered for us, LEAVING US AN EXAMPLE, that ye should follow his steps: 22: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth” (1Peter 2: 19 – 22, KJV, emphasis & Name changes in brackets, mine).
This, dear friends – brothers & sisters – is that which we all must come to the comprehension of! This Earth was made perfectly for us, in the first 2 Chapters of the Book of Genesis. From that time, we have had to interact with sin in closer and astoundingly increasing quarters, such that now, it is the Earth and those who had not ever known it, or forgotten this wondrous story of “the Perfection of selfless-love, found in the life of our Messiah, Yahushua.”
We know the story, but over the millennia, its beauty has become very thinly laid upon the whole of the Earth due to the movements of the population and the deliberate dilution of the original message, that confusion – hence error – might be the general mindset by those who have been born-again, and have allowed denominationalism.
I never choose to judge people. All I am allowed to do through Heaven’s mandate by the Holy Spirit, is to judge where THE TRUTH ABIDES for me, and truly it even counsels us, THAT WHICH WE UNDERSTAND may change as we allow the process of sanctification to continue in the life, which is always the completed work of the Everlasting Gospel!
We deliberately choose daily to allow the Spirit to educate us spiritually and practically speaking, that the Earth see Messiah’s image, not me, whenever I appear before them for whatever reason. When people in your life begin to equate seeing you as a happy time of the day for them: fellow-workers; those who serve us as food-handlers; friends and family members, and even me when I am aware of who I am before a Loving Father, on a moment by moment basis. The real truth, is that Yahushua Messiah is ALL one ever needs, for eternity to be at your disposal!
The lines are being crossed in both ways in these latter days, and because wherever I am situated within society, I am to be after the Example of Messiah, Father blesses us when we choose to daily seek this aspect of the personality of the Messiah, He will then appear, as Paul tells us another great truth, few become amazed by and choose to make use of for the glory of the Father Yahuwah:
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of [Elohim]: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15: But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man [i.e. natural man, AND truly spiritual men, DO NOT JUDGE – we aren’t judges]. 16: For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF [MESSIAH]” (1Corinthians 2: 14 – 16, KJV, emphasis, and Name changes, mine).
This is what these days are all about: how much are you likened unto Your Messiah? Self is chosen to remain under the waters of baptism, dead in Yahushua, before His resurrection. This is the striking truth of these latter days! Creation now is in child-birth, the birth of those who will be in His character, and after this has been established, the Earth will have upon it, only two kinds of people: the Righteous, and the Wicked, and the 7 last plagues will fall on the Wicked, as Messiah takes us through that same period of plagues. ALWAYS, Yahuwah Elohim has brought His True Children THROUGH the difficulties; never have we been placed aside from the difficulties. People who teach this doctrine, and call it the Rapture, aren’t aware of the words of Paul, as he teaches us another lesson concerning the Second Coming, he was given spiritual strength and prophetic power to teach those who will abide in these latter days:
“For the mystery of iniquity [lawlessness – living without spiritual parameters which if not kept, will separate you from that eternal life in Him Who came to save you from choosing eternal death as your road] doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8: And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [From His mouth has always come forth TRUTH], and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming [The Wicked will be living together with the Righteous on the Earth, at the time of the Second Coming of 1Thessalonians 4: 16 – 18]: 9: Even him, whose coming is after the working of [Haylale] with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10: And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish [Those who will die second death, are the greatest deceivers on Earth in these latter days]; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved [Thus, their love for falsehoods which allow them to set law for themselves to live in obedience to, rather than receiving the Royal and Moral Laws, without disputation as their manner of Truth, Life and Way unto Eternity, after that illustrious Example]” (2Thessalonians 2: 7 – 10, KJV, all notations in brackets, mine).
Let us not wait until our clouded senses allow us for but a moment to see that which should have been our path, go by without another chance at it! HalleluYah!