My God!

So... I just watched an episode of an old show called "The Mantis" on Hulu, and the following struck me:

I find immense truth in the moment in a TV show or movie when a character looks at the mess they've made of their lives, the obsession that is keeping them from being what they know they should be, and the only two words they can say are "My God!"
I see this truth in two ways:
First, the person is realizing that they do need God. They are in themselves unable to fix their situations and problems. They are unable to make their lives what they should be, because they are the problem.
Second, the person is immediately identifying the real problem: something else is their God. The obsession that has hold of their life is their act of worship. The mess they've made of things is the pile of offerings to whatever idol is in the center of their life, the product and proof of a failing center.

Truthfully, I watch too much Hulu, and I count most of my time on video entertainment as completely wasted. I mean, look at this, I haven't written a blog post in forever, and (if I decide to not proofread) it doesn't really take much time…
The only defense I have is that I try to be critical, try to learn what people think about people by looking at how stories, written to capture the viewing public, are told.

So, I'll leave you with this: If you are going to let your mind rot in front of some passive entertainment, I only ask you to take a moment to make it less passive. Ask yourself if there is some truth behind what you are watching, search for the commentaries on the human condition, and ask yourself if you agree with the motives and beliefs that are revealed in the fabric of the story, the acting, and the words themselves.