One of the favorite themes of the work-them-up evangelists today is to warn the congregation of presumably holy Christian Believers that there's a conspiracy of "humanist" movements determined to break down God's societal commands.
There's no such conspiracy. It's much simpler than that.
Hollywood does not contrive as a unit to corrupt the morals of the youth of America. They make what sells. If what sold was God's Work, that's what they'd make. Remember Touched By An Angel? Why was that such a successful show - because the "conspiracy" missed it? Of course not - it was well written and touched a nerve in its viewers. So is Game of Thrones - which, alas, is not nearly as supportive of God's Work.
Similarly, do you really think that there's an attempt on the part of some confluence of recording artists to make music and videos intended to damage the moral fiber of Americans from coast to coast? Nonsense. When something "moral" happens to go viral, it sells well, and for that time period there's a slight push in a positive direction. Then, something else will go triple platinum, and it's just as likely to feature boobs and butts as is it the Bible Belt.
People are independent entities. So are individual companies who make decisions on which movies to make, which books to publish, or any of those artistic choices which "influence today's youth". Our youth influence those choices more than those choices influence them. Or rather, it's a cyclical process: the youth decide which trends they'll pay to get published, and those publications unify the specifics of the trend, getting the youth to speak in the same frame of mind, and then some of them move away from the trend in multiple directions. The artists make new choices, the youth decide with their pocketbook which choices match what they're looking for, and the cycle continues.
Of course, it's not just the youth who are influenced and are influencing public artistic expression. We are all customers of the culture's wares. If you want to stop Hollywood and Nashville and Motown from putting out all the corrupting media, stop paying them to put it out. Get enough Christians together and you can influence any production line, even the media.
But we don't. We lap it up. There's a reason 20% of the internet is pornography - they're making money putting it on line.
There is no "corrupting conspiracy" going on, Christians. There are only people who see a way to make a profit selling whatever other people are willing to purchase. There are more people living "of the flesh" than who live "of the spirit - and far too many of those people claim to be Christians.
"They" are not the problem. "We" are.
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