I haven't yet gone into the TV room; my parents leave the TV on when they leave for work, and ultimately the channel it's always left on will show Dr. Phil. Right now they're talking about those people from the ranch, the "lost boys" specifically.

I know that the purpose of the media is to inform us and make us aware of things that go on outside our circles and social spheres, but I wish they didn't have to do it in such a way to try and grab our attention, to impress some viewpoint upon it that is biased; they tell us about the sexual and child abuse but they also make it look like everyone at that ranch is completely screwed up.

Sexual abuse, child abuse, and various combinations of the two happen every day in communities all over the world, large and small, varying in faith and belief. When you single out one community like Yearning for Zion, it's like you put a pair of blinders over your head, and for the moment you're not thinking about the world as a whole; all of your feelings toward the degredation of humanity is focused on this one group, this one issue, and they end up taking the full brunt of all of this negative energy.

We cannot leap in and save this screwed-up world from everything when all we have to influence us is the negative energy that the media feeds us daily. Personally I feel that the best plan of attack is not to go ramming heads against the outside walls, but to breed dissent from the inside; to negative energy, this dissent would of course be positive energy. We should send positive energy to those who need it, and focusing on building it where it already resides; when you focus on the positive rather than the negative, the positive gets more attention and ends up getting stronger. IMHO.