Is media literacy an emerging issue?

[unogueen]

A recent online post (along with the usual numpty-headedness) has caught my attention. It frames much of the media framework of the past in the same verse as slashfic that you would find in any number of aggregates that populate the internet. There's truth in the sense that much of the framework of renowned works have a common source (in the case of this argument, christendom), but to point to Dante's allegories in the same light as my immortal fails a critical recognition of influence. By that point in time, christianity was the defacto culture builder in european society, having amassed both wealth and influence far beyond anything relative today in terms of branding. There seems to be a lack of understanding of property as it pertains from the old world and the commodified modern existence. Jesus didn't die to push numbers. If all stories have the same weight, spiderman could be equal in challenge, but that is fundamentally missing the relationship between consumption of religion and a pulp paperback. This isn't a moral argument about right or wrong, more to the point where the gravitas of a memory is relative to the social construct. I realize modern media, news in particular, frames incidents as bubbles that speak lightly of the social condition, or outright deny it. It seems like a recipe for circular logic where there is no solution but to parrot the nearest probable cause. No matter how noble the cause (such as restorative justice), there's historical inertia that cannot be defeated overnight, and far too many players who stand to prosper from such posture (particularly in an international scale).

[Keyser_Soze]

On the subject of Christendom, this concept isn't defined by an enemy. If it were, then there would be no greater exemplar than the eternal war described on how canon law tore the human body to shreds in order to control a populace with no basis for sense. There is no moral imperative to condemn a master to torture for disobedience as evidenced by the way in which the same story reflects on the idea of "resignation" from a benighted world. Something neither humorous or ridiculous is at play here; the fact that The Scumbag Samaritan was allowed to engage is more evidence that the original decree was issued and passed.

The societal impact of the story is interesting as well. While it allows persecution of a marginalized community, it does so peacefully. The narrative doesn't condemn the criminal, it advocates for him to do penance through an unlikely and undeserved end. Without an action of good by the church, all of Christianity would ultimately cease to exist.

[Mr.Vic20]