Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Wife Swap

Last night's wife swap featured a mom who was against television. She wouldn't let her daughter watch it, and they didn't have a set in the house. In fact, when it came time for the moms to change the rules, this mom made the family take out the televisions. She stated that she feels t.v. is a drug and that it ought to be, to use her word, illegalized.

If she feels this strongly about t.v., why is she on the show? Why is she contributing to the addiction she feels television inspires? I can surmise that her friends or family told her about the show and that she never actually saw it herself. But why would you agree to actively participate in an activity you oppose passive participation in?
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"