Jaded

 Jade, the English term coined a long time ago, is an old horse well beyond its useful purposes. I feel jaded these days and maybe it's because I am old, a place we all achieve like it or not. Jaded means someone who, in my terms, has had it up to here and doesn't have the power to change things. I feel jaded. Most of what the media feeds me, us, is all the worst news there is. Oddly, we eat it up as though it is something  tasty. Does it make us "jaded"? Yup, it does. The other day while watching TV, I went to what was advertised as the most popular show "everyone" is panting to see. Click, and I watched on the big screen a brilliantly coloured forest of trees, hearing a burst of  beats that some might call music and a voice began to speak, not sing, lines of words that flew in the face of everything decent. The figures in the scene were writhing in openly sexual moves, almost nude and without a semblance anything that could be called dancing. The words spoken not sung, were shocking and they actually lauded violence against women in terms that used language I am surprised got past the censors.  What I was seeing and hearing and feeling  portrayed a kind of "hell". I turned it off. Sure, I could be charged with being jaded. But hey, I am only an average viewer who heard that the world is changing to being more open and generous and working toward equality in all ways. Being old fashioned, being uncool, being old, but living and being in this time, not the future, sorry, this kind of slime on television is not acceptable and those who make it should know better. As humans. If it must be done, put it behind locked doors, please. Being human comes first.  In our human idealism, we made changes with new  laws and political strategies to better the planet. This show was negative to all that we hoped would happen. It is only one example, but when the planet is telling us, the end is inevitable ahead, is this how we want it to end? Do the hopeless hide behind their worst scenarios and show their worst sides and try to engage us in it? This particular show might be someone's choice, but it's a horrific one. All the pillars of morality have almost disappeared: fun holidays, cars, decor, chic attire  are the priority, along with spas and gyms and beauty clinics,  and entertainment. Where is what really matters such as health care, respect for those who deserve it, attention to being a real family, ousting the false junk on our faces and bodies, chucking the detritus of electronic gizmos we don't need, getting  rough living off the sidewalks, making post-secondary education free to build our country, care for those who can't care for themselves? What have we become that we can't see it, and are exposed to the kind of disgusting show I witnessed, touted as being something to watch at Christmas time? What happened to all that is good and beautiful, natural, and true? It's in us waiting, and we need to get it back.