Facing the Truth

Someone once said, if you want to know the way a society is heading look at their popular culture. That kind of scares me when I look at what and where our country is going.
First movies had to experiment with how much they could get away with. How many good movies were ruined by a gratuitose(sp) nude scene or dirty joke? What point, other than selling a movie by nudity, did The Wittness have a nude scene, of an Amish woman, yet? What was the point of the naked lady walking out of the lake right past Michael J. Fox's character and not saying a word in Doc Hollywood? Another MJF classic, Teen Wolf had the senseless dirty vacuum cleaner joke, and why, what did it add the the movie?
Then, it was bad enough that companies started selling sex to make money on everything from soft drinks to razor blades. I have seen more "skin" and more "suggestiveness" on commercials today than I did in the bootleg pornos of my youth. The only difference is the actual "act" being shown. If you want that you can find it in most any PG-13 movie on the market.
The real turning point I have seen is when the society of these United States demanded bad heros. On TV we have Dexter who is a serial killer, Gil Ghrisom's diviency has been portrayed on CSI. In the movies, the bad guys are now the heros fighting against a corrupt system.
There is no longer black and white. There is motivation and situation. This stems out the false teaching from the '70s of situation ethics. This taught that you responded, not from a moralistic viewpoint but from what the best thing in the situation was for all concerned. If you were in a marriage that you didn't like - get a divorce. If you had sex with out the benefit of marriage - get an abortion. If you wanted to have sex with someone, but weren't sure you liked them - live together. If you liked having your space to yourself and didn't want a roommate - sleep over. If you didn't want to face any type of committmet issues - no names opr numbers, just sex. The situation set the ethical standard.
Han Solo is a great example of this type of hero. He was by his own admission a bad guy. In the first movie all he was interested in was saving his own skin and getting the money. That was his motivation to help. He had a slight change of attitude at the end when he came back and saved Luke, but did he come back to help the rebellion or impress the Leia?
The darkest of all matters to me came when Marvel Publishing couldn't figure out a way to turn Steve Rogers - Captain America - into an unethical SOB so they killed him off. Then they turned his identy over to someone who had been a hired killer for years. So now they have their Bad A** Captain America.
The truest to source comic book movie in recent years was Daredevil, but it got panned by "fanboys" because he let the Kingpin live in the end. One of the most celebrated movie series has been the X-Men and that has all been screwed up from time line to charater and groups that worked together but Wolverine was the Psycho killing machine that everyone wanted him to be so "fanboys" chose to overlook the mangling of the source.
When the morally corrupt become the heros of the youth of this nation, what does their future hold? What does our future hold? Will the LORD come before it all goes up in flames?
Me, I'm just facing the truth.