"Miller argued that television in the United States teaches a different kind of conformity than that portrayed in the novel. In the novel, the telescreen is use

"Miller argued that television in the United States teaches a different kind of conformity than that portrayed in the novel. In the novel, the telescreen is used to produce conformity to the Party. In Miller’s argument, television produces conformity to a system of rapacious consumption – through advertising as well as a focus on the rich and famous. ... Many viewers conform by measuring themselves against what they see on television, such as dress, relationships and conduct. In Miller’s words, television has “set the standard of habitual self-scrutiny.”" Well, and not only that. As near as I can tell, we are rapidly diverging from "classical" Christian Western values and substituting them with new values that are even less tolerant. I can't tell the last time I've seen a movie or series with a regular family, male and female without issues like adultery, problems with alcohol, gambling, perversions, single-parent households, divorces, etc.; with normal kids, that aren't using drugs, or having sex at age of 14, and so on, and so on. Can that be a coincidence, sometimes I wonder.. It sure feels like we are gambling with the Western civilization. We are quick to forget that everything in this world is more or less a result of it, doesn't matter how politically correct we must be in the "new world order". Even God cannot defy facts. Anyway, the article is not worth reading - we are, after all, doing this ourselves out of our own volition. So, it's a choice. It's still a choice.