Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

There is a joke in our family about how we took our younger son as an infant to a drive in movie theater to see "Jaws".  He later was afraid of water and he "blames" us.  The other night we watched "Jaws" and I was amazed to see the film was rated PG.  Not even PG13.  That pretty much encapsulates what is wrong with out country.  My husband said there were no naked breasts so the gory body parts, sharks eating humans close up and personal and the nail biting terror were fine for kids.  Our children see too much violence and then they act it out, as it becomes cool when portrayed by gorgeous actors whom they want to emulate.  I really can't get over the fact that supposedly responsible people thought "Jaws" was kiddie fare.  And we can go around being afraid of great white sharks instead of the sharks in Congress and on Wall Street.  Scare us over remote dangers and keep us in the dark about the rest.