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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Adapting to Corruption

Arielle comments on the Morbid Curiosity post:

Thanks, Taylor -I was beginning to think I was the only one that felt this way. The friends that have mentioned it all seemed to see nothing wrong with it, and even my husband couldn't understand why it bothered me so much.

We have been hardened as a society. The warped images and messages streaming from the Internet, television, movies, music, pop culture and news that we are exposed to on a daily basis have caused many of us to lose our sense of decency. No one living in mainstream society is immune to it. I certainly am not immune to it, although, I am making a conscious effort to recognize its toxic effect on my mind and trying to reverse it. We are basically living in a sewer today. When another new piece of filth comes along, it doesn't make much, if any, impact on our dulled sensibilities.

The body's nervous system was designed to eventually block out constant stimulus in order to free up the nerves and brain centers to sense and recognize new information. Our information pathways have a limited bandwidth. It is an ingenious design that allows us to adapt to our environment so that we can be alerted when changes do occur. This is, for example, why we don't smell the inside of our own homes, don't hear the noisy traffic outside our bedroom window, and don't notice the details of our daily route to work. In effect, we are unaware of many things around us.

Man has always been rotten, but at one time, society, as a whole, at least put on a facade of righteousness. Of course, we could always choose to pollute our own lives with depravity but the air was clean for the rest of us. Depravity and degeneracy had to be actively sought out. This is no longer the case today. The facade has been torn off, permitting what was once hidden and unacceptable, now free to pollute everyone's lives. One has to actively fight to keep out depravity and degeneracy. It is a losing battle as corruption touches every aspect of society. Given our ability to adapt, it is no surprise that many of us no longer notice the constant stink emanating from our polluted culture.

It did not get this way over night. If it did, we would be in shock. No, the decline is very subtle, slowly increasing as our senses and sensibilities adjust, no longer registering the offenses to our minds. To be constantly aware of the filth around us would leave many of us incapacitated, unable to carry on with our lives. Man's ability to adapt was meant for survival but in an insidiously comfortable world it seems to be leading to our downfall.

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