Moral Relativism Redux

I was wondering at how the founding fathers would feel, if they knew that the modern-day enlightenment found their practice of slavery as morally reprehensible, inexcusable and a social embarrassment. But would the founding fathers find it equally reprehensible, inexcusable and a social embarassment in the modern-day practice of abortion?

After all, not everyone of that era practiced slavery, and not everyone of our era practices abortion, but yet these topics seemed to be argued and re-argued and not resolved. The practice of slavery led to the Civil War. What will the practice of abortion lead to?

But, of course, this is just an observation......

...Oh, I Don't Watch TV

Have you ever noticed that the supposed illuminati always say that? In a casual conversation you might innocently comment, "...Did you get your iPhone at the Buy More?", which is an obtuse reference to the TV show "Chuck". They will say, "What? What's a Buy More?", and then you will explain the TV show and they will then say, "I don't watch TV", or "I only watch PBS", like that is some kind of virtue. Granted, most TV programs are crap, especially on the constant-fill news channels, or E!, or Spike and the like, but there is some interestingly entertaining content out there. I will readily admit my preference for movies and have suffered through some real garbage (anything with Billy Bob Thornton), but you take the bad with the good, and hope that you only remember the good. Back to the illuminati....I have observed that most of those who "don't watch TV", tend to be well informed on the CNN (No Bias, No Bull, which is a bunch of bull) or MSNBC point-of-view. Notice that I didn't make it a plural (points-of-view) because the seem to be pretty singular on their biases. So for an out-of-touch demographic (the non-watching-TV group) they seem to be in-touch with their kind. So, what is it? Are they so much better for not watching who gets voted off the island on Survivor, or the latest plot twist on The Closer, or Andy Rooney's ungroomed eyebrows on 60 Minutes?

We, as the baby-boom generation, grew up on TV content, and suckled on cartoons and game shows. Our children are truly multi-attentive by texting, surfing and watching television at the same time. What does the future hold for us? Will we be a bunch of zombies in a rest home watching a test pattern, partially catatonic? I hope that entertainment will rise above the lowest common denominator and actually become a means of education, instead of a fascist means of propaganda......but this is only an observation.