Could you please make it a little more out of focus?

Our nation's transfer to high definition digital television is now history and we are now officially living in a new age of clarity as we watch the mind numbing nonsense that comes over the air waves. I read an interesting article about how that people in the glamour business are now very concerned about the way their images are coming across in the new advanced media. It seems that many of the ‘beautiful’ people are very concerned about what the improved definition is doing in terms of showing off their age, wrinkles, and other blemishes that were previously not an issue. This is what I am chuckling about on this Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Get this. Some already have their agents working on clauses for their contracts that will require all their appearances to be shot with a camera slightly out of focus. Believe me I am not making this up. This was in the New York Times!

Let me see if I have this correct. We spent billions so that everyone can see all the details clearly on the screen but now some folks are up in arms because people can see all the details clearly. No where else but in America could this be how things work! I will say that when we upgraded our set to a large screen HDTV with high resolution it became obvious that you could tell who had not shaved before the newscast and we have noticed some flaws in folks that we thought were pretty much flawless. The article I read also said this new development will likely be a bonanza to the plastic surgeons and botox providers because tinsel town is scurrying around trying to deal with this new image threat.

Maybe the use of the out of focus camera is a good thing for us all. We should see everyone through the lens of love to the extent that the externals are not the most important thing we observe. Maybe this is the way it worked in the old country song that reported how that all the girls got prettier at closing time. Now that we have high definition we will perhaps soon be able to buy a blurring device for $19.95 or two of them if we call within the next thirty minutes. This way we can have all the benefits of the new technology without having to be overly concerned about whether the news person has spinach on their tooth or a really bad but previously unnoticed dental problem. Who would have ever thought that high definition reality in living color would create such a firestorm? But it has and it will continue to do so and you and I will get to enjoy all the ruckus. I do remember my wife saying how that this person or that person we had been seeing for years now looks so much older on the new set. The more we go forward it is the more we regress or something like that. Hey, here’s to you being able to see clearly the things that really matter in life and in doing so let’s thank God for all He has given to us and do with it our best to serve Him and others. Amen. …More later.