Extreme Makeover - Think about it.
Extreme Makeover, home edition, is an insidious show that attempts, for those of us in the priviledged masses, to pay our guilt money on our behalf. The show randomly selects some poor unfortunate soul, and proceeds to emotionally bully and blatantly exploit them all to give the viewer a feeling of satisfaction no more real than that attained by narcotics. Just like a hypnotist's subject, or a member of a congregation 'recieving the lord' in a fundamentalist church, it is actually the attentive and expectant gaze of the masses which dictates the emotional response of the man-of-the-moment. The ensuing rapture is expected, and always delivered. Who would fly in the face of an expectant crowd? Not you, not me.
The fact that the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on one family or individual, to appease our national guilt, to provide them with never-before-seen, sickeningly superfluous luxuries, could actually be better spent enabling MANY HUNDREDS of poor and undereducated human beings get a foothold in life, seems to completely escape the enraptured viewers and proponents of this show. Going around helping schools, helping the poor, just enough, no, that's not good television. There'd be no tear-streaked climax then, and we wouldn't be able to go away with an instantly-attained warm fuzzy feeling that somewhere, someone is making things right.
If Christian values is a winner-takes-all lottery, in which anyone suitably unlucky, suitably sycophantic, and suitably television-worthy is a competitor, then I'll be compelled to find a new set of values quick-smart.
I recently read your article titled, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Christian Values". I disagree with your propostition that the government is the organization that was designed to fulfill the needs of the poor and down-trodden. It seems that you are a Christian, or at least are trying to point something out to Christians, so my arguement will be based in that context. Deuteronomy 15 goes like this, in verse 7 "If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs." And in the New Testament there are also multiple passages that refer to giving to widows, orphans, and the poor. So, who needs the government, or this TV show (even though I am a big fan)? Ultimately I believe it is the Church that is losing this game. I understand that you may not have half a millon dollars to build your neighbor a new house. But Christian kindness is more than money, houses, and cars. It's about love, and all of us can afford to give a little of that!
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