Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Cartoon Coercion
In a time when the media injects viewers with a steady influx of sex, violence, and mature themed programming that waves the flag of prevalent non-Christian worldviews, it is difficult for parents to know whether to turn their backs on their TV watching children without exposing them to harmful material. However, one source of entertainment that has been trusted to raise western society’s children for decades is cartoons and animated movies. To many, this form of media seems to have an innocence that the others do not, but this is a misconception. The media is subtly using children’s cartoons and animated movies to shape the worldviews of the young and impressionable. Examples of this molding can be seen in the very popular Saturday morning X-Men show from the mid-90’s, and Walt Disney’s Pocahontas, and Lion King.