Reforming Hollywood Values

America could make globalization more appealing to poorer and often more religious nations by a return to moral values. Religious peoples, whether Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu see the proliferation of “Hollywood values” meaning from our movies, television, music and the print media as not worth the price of democracy and change.

Once, Hollywood used to control their more base tendencies, thanks in part to the self-censorship of the Hays Code. Now our society is too often heavily influenced by immoral attitudes emanating from Tinsel Town. Check out any recent film on almost any subject and one gets a clear view what these values are. Children are disrespectful to parents, women are demeaned through constant nudity, men and fathers are seen as clueless, businesses are too often corrupt, pastors and priests are too often prone to temptation, and criminals are too often seen as victims of society.

Liberal elites in America and Europe look on moral values as backwards and oppressive when the opposite is true. Religion often encourages large families which are a nation’s lifeblood. Religious societies are often less prone to crime as believers feel they must answer to a higher power, a perfect hindrance to any wrong-doing. Religious people are less prone for corruption and less likely to go to war for these same reasons.

While America attempts to spread its form of free trade and democracy abroad, this one accommodation it must make, a return to traditional values. This will involve making divorce less common for the sake of families, ending abortion for the same reason, outlawing pornography, and making children more responsible to parents.

With such moral authority once again on the side of the globalists, there is little the more radical members of the opposition can say against us that will stick. The promise of renewed wealth through capitalism will never win over the hearts and minds of the poor, but protecting them from the more damaging excesses that freedom often brings is a start. Only with change at home can the advocates of globalization expect their ideas to be welcomed abroad.