“Consumers are also complicit when they fail to support the organizations that they agree with.”
Seth Godin.
Ouch. I believed that for a long time with regards to our moral choices. Take, for example, entertainment. As believers, we all stand for marital faithfulness, sex within the borders of marriage, and lifelong commitments to our spouses. Then we’d get together with all our buddies to watch “Friends”, a TV show that stood for the exact opposite of all those principles! To explain our behavior we’d say, “It’s OK for me to watch because I’m mature enough to understand it’s wrong.” That’s how I always explained away my entertainment choices. One day, I examined the logic of that statement and immediately realized how absolutely ridiculous that line of reasoning was!
We are far too often a willing part of the societal problems we complain about. We are complicit. I’m still not as consistent as I want to be with my entertainment choices but a lot has changed since I realized that by simply viewing a movie or TV show, I am condoning it and putting my stamp of approval on it.
And if I start looking at what I’m putting my “stamp of approval” on, things get icky really, really, fast.
I gotta keep it real - are there things you’re slapping your “stamp of approval on” that really don’t believe in or agree with?
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