The State of the Union

To discover this I didn't watch the President. Instead I thought about the evolution of our entertainment. Movies:. "You Can't Take it With You" in the thirties about the triumph of those things that transcend material gain. "It's a Wonderful Life" about the triumph of a life when it discovers through the help of heaven (the angel, Clarence) the effect it had on so many other lives for the good; "Shane", "High Noon", "A Man for All Seasons", "Chariots of Fire", and countless other films that aren't shy about the wholesome ideal, and the foundations of faith. And then to our own current times. Now I am at a loss. Or perhaps it should be counted as gain that I am ignorant of the current movies, TV programming, the seductive advertisements. Maybe it is our entertainment that is the real litmus of the state of the union.