Social Media

“Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong…” – Exodus 23:2

The Media.

They are after your mind. They are controlling the WORLD!

Personally, I don’t like the media, and truly think that mass media is dumbing down the country one way or another. Though saying that is one thing, but actually looking at how it does so is another.

There are very real ways that media can influence a whole nation very easily, one method is the concept of  social proof. Social Proof is the idea that, to make life less full of mistakes, we look to how the people around us are acting to get an idea of what’s acceptable behaviour and what isn’t. Whether that is what to do with your rubbish in public,  rushing to look at a scene because there is a crowd, or the fact that, when looking at your phone, you cross the street because everyone else is, even though you never checked to see if it was clear yourself, you trust the judgement of those around you. We’ve all heard “They/He was doing it as well!”

And this subconscious act of the mind is what media companies use to control us. Half naked girls in most homes and businesses on a daily, it becomes more acceptable. The music we listen to, not just rap, but all genres influence how we view our behaviour. How celebrities act, on & off screen gives us an idea of not just what’s acceptable, but what we should be aiming for as a person.

They set the standard for what is acceptable behaviour in the UK. Using this against us they can control the morals of a country, and of you. And in doing this can turn our actions away from what God asks of us. God’s morals are not relative, they are absolute. And just because everyone else is doing it, it doesn’t make it acceptable in His view. Most of the time in the Bible, He was upset with his people for acting like the culture around them (when the culture was acting against God).

In the 21st century nothings changed. Now I’m not forcing eveyone to seclude themselves from everything, I certainly don’t, but check yourself and the content of the world around you. Where are you getting your cues from…

- Open