Made you look. The very fact that you looked at this post is only going to prove my point about why Miley (and thus Madonna, Britney, etc, etc) did what she did.
We all know the old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity right? Yet, every time someone does something to incite the people who hold everybody to a moral high road, how do they respond? They flood twitter, facebook, etc with their judgements, and insults. As soon as they do everybody else that didn't see it (Myself included) goes on youtube to watch it. Everyone searches it in google until she is the number one searched and youtubed name on the planet.
Thus giving her the publicity that she so wisely was going after. We live in a digital age. The more a name is searched and tweeted the more money that person makes.
So who's fault is it that Miley acted like this in front of our children setting a terrible example? Yours! All you gossiping judgmental people who love shock value. You all love to verbalize opinions about people. You love to build them up and tear them down. You eat this sensationalism up. You wouldn't know what to do with yourself if you didn't have someone to talk bad about. How do I know this? Cause I'm one of you.
But if we really want to stop the madness here is what I propose... When you see something happening that's an obvious publicity stunt, DON'T tweet about it. Leave it off your facebook page. Boycott googling her name. Refuse to feed the animal and he will go away. Stop clicking on all the garbage that comes after the fact.
Maybe instead of making our judgements as if she wasn't a human being with feelings, we should just say a little prayer for her, and go spend time with our own kids, so they don't end up having the same identity problems she does when they get older.
I feel sorry for Miley. She is judging her self worth based on how many tweets there are about her or how much money she can make off it. Eventually this will lead to extreme sadness. I pray that when she fades away and becomes less relevant some day that she will learn to find joy and happiness in things that are far greater than what she does now. That's what I'll be praying for. It's the same prayer I pray for myself every day, that one day I'll be able to say, "It is well with my soul" even in the midst of being completely alone!
At the end of the day stop blaming the media, entertainers, and businesses for their behaviors. They are a direct reflection of where we as a people place our attention and dollars. For every click a news website gets they get paid. For every viewer a news agency gets they get paid. For every new subscriber a cable company gets they get paid. Yet, we continue to reward news agencies for writing biased and sensationalism into every story (Stop reading it), we continue to tweet about shocking and sometimes insulting things (Stop You tubing it), we continue to subscribe to a cable company (Direc TV) that has hundreds of thousands of complaints filed against it for outright lying to their customers.
You choose what to click on. You choose how to spend your money. If the collective of America really wanted to read about and see good wholesome stories about people who are an example to our children and lift up the morals that we want to see in people, then that's what we would see in the world. But that's not what we want to see. Why do i know that? Because that's not what we see. Trust me, this is a business, and whatever makes them money is what they are going to do. It just doesn't pay anymore to be wholesome, and that's on us. So let's all turn that finger around and point it at ourselves...
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