Dark Ages and Today

We live in an A-literate culture; a culture where people can read but don't.
We are entering, according to Neil Postman, a new Dark Age--a time when
people didn't read. An age where manners and morals were at their lowest
level. If one were to study the Dutch master painters for example you would
see scenes of adults sitting around the table, eating with their hands,
children with children's bodies but adult-like faces, dirty, with an abused
or empty look, and woman dressed immodestly. It was a day when both adults
and children were savage like, often snotting on their sleeve or on the
floor while eating. (I hope you aren't reading this while you are eating!)
It was a cruel, demoralizing, perverted time in human history—and we are not
too far from it again. It is interesting that at as early as seven years of
age children were treated like adults...the reason is that this was the age
when children had mastered the vocabulary...both adults and children spoke
the same language and as a result, children were allowed to enter the adult
world. Today, with our entertainment revolution, children have once again
been brought into the adult world--they speak the same language, they dress like adults. Can anything be done to reverse this trend? Yes, the same
action that closed the Dark and Middle ages is needed today. It was the invention of the
printing press that closed these Ages.
When people started to read, beginning with the Scriptures, lives were dramatically
changed. Churches grew, schools and universities shot up, businesses were
created and the feudal system began to crumble, because mankind once again
started to reflect the image of their Creator. Psalm 19 states that The
Words, Law, or Rules of God revive the soul, makes wise the simple,
enlightens the eyes, rejoices the heart, warns us, helps us discern our
errors, and in keeping them, there is great reward. Mom's and dad's please
put away the childish entertainment of the tv, the video games, or the fox
and cnn channels, and begin reading stories of moral courage so that your
children will have models to follow. Let's light this age up a little.